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Rose, Deborah Bird: Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra 1996, ISBN 0642235619

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Table of Contents

Foreword -v-

Introduction -1-

1. Country -6-

Sea and Sky -8-

Promised Lands -9-

2. Wilderness and the Wild -16-

Owned and Loved -19-

Inscribed the Human Spirit -19-

3. Nothing is Nothing -22-

Living Things -23-

Dreaming -26-

Totems -28-

They Were All People Too -29-

Knowledge -31-

4. Sacred Geography -34-

Gendered Places -36-

Centres of Life -38-

How Many Arks? -40-

Between Countries -42-

Sacred Sites -44-

Always Ask -44-

5. Dreaming Ecology -47-

Sanctuary -48-

Waters of Life -51-

Rituals of Well-being -53-

Danger -57-

Seasons of the Place -58-

6. Caring for Country -62-

Firestick Farming -63-

Symbols and Sociality -69-

Nobody’s Perfect! -69-

Spirits and Dead Bodies -71-

People of Fortune -72-

7. Damage and Waste -74-

8. Human and Ecological Rights - A Conclusion -82-

About the Illustrator -88-

Bibliography -89-