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- Title
Ninu, Grandmother's Law: The Autobiography of Nura Nungalka Ward.
- Authors
Eickelkamp, Ute
- Abstract
It is a work of insight and scope that non-Aboriginal anthropologists cannot produce but must engage with as a major form of knowledge production - even if it is first and foremost addressed to the young and future generations of the Ward family. In Nura Nungalka Ward's case, three non-Indigenous women who have spent most of their working lives at Anangu organizations in Alice Springs helped her compile the book over the span of a decade - interpreter Linda Rive, historian Julia Burke (both at I Ara Irititja i digital archive), and health expert Suzanne Bryce who leads the nutrition team at the NPY Women's Council. (78) Looking back to her early childhood and youth, Nura clearly distinguishes the Anangu and the Western domains, but this is not cast in terms of profound cultural change or overbearing conflict. Nura laments the disconnection in the present generation from old subsistence skills and embodied immersion in the life of the bush.
- Subjects
INTRODUCED animals; GRANDMOTHERS; AUSTRALIANS; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; MOTHERS
- Publication
Oceania, 2020, Vol 90, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0029-8077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ocea.5251