Position doubtful : mapping landscapes and memories / Kim Mahood.
Publisher: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text, still image
- cartographic image
- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925321685 (paperback)
- Position doubtful
- Mahood, Kim
- Acker, Tim
- Bumblebee, Margaret
- Campbell, Violet
- Izett, Erica
- Kunga, Daisy
- Lofts, Pamela
- Lulu, Veronica (Fatima)
- Tjapanangka, Tjumpo, approximately 1929-2007
- Johns, Anna
- Johns, Rebecca
- Napaltjarri, Dora Mungkina
- Samuel, Charmia
- Stundi, May
- Yoomarie, Shirley
- Mahood, Kim
- Mahood, Kim
- Mahood, Kim -- Biography
- Mahood, Kim -- Childhood and youth
- Mahood, Kim -- Homes and haunts -- Australia -- Tanami Desert (N.T.)
- Acker, Tim
- Bumblebee, Margaret
- Campbell, Violet
- Izett, Erica
- Kunga, Daisy
- Lofts, Pamela
- Lulu, Veronica (Fatima)
- Tjapanangka, Tjumpo, approximately 1929-2007
- Johns, Anna
- Johns, Rebecca
- Napaltjarri, Dora Mungkina
- Samuel, Charmia
- Stundi, May
- Yoomarie, Shirley
- Authors, Aboriginal Australians
- Landscape architectural projects -- Australia -- Northern Territory
- Cultural geography -- Northern Territory -- Tanami Desert (N.T.)
- Community arts projects -- Western Australia -- Canning Stock Route
- Map drawing
- Artists, Australian -- Biography
- Artists, Australian -- Journeys
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Ecology -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Artists, Aboriginal Australian
- Authors, Aboriginal Australian
- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
- Authors, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Northwestern
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Culture - Relationship to place
- Discourse analysis - Narratives
- Employment - Programs - Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP)
- Environment - Lakes and rivers
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous
- Literature and stories - Authors
- Literature and stories - Poetry
- Occupations - Rangers and park workers
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - 1901-
- Religion - Dreaming
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Stories and motifs - Landscape
- Stories and motifs - Lakes
- Transport - Road - Roads and tracks
- Jaru / Djaru people (K12) (WA SE52-10)
- Manjiljarra / Martu Wangka people (A51.1) (WA SF51-12)
- Ngardi / Bunara people (A69) (WA SE52-14)
- Walmajarri / Walmatjarri people (A66) (WA SE51-16)
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Aboriginal Australians
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Ecology
- Tanami Desert (N.T.)
- Balgo / Wirrimanu (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02)
- Billiluna / Kururrungku (Central WA Tanami Desert SE52-14)
- Billiluna map area (Central WA Tanami Desert SE52-14)
- Canning Stock Route (WA SF51, SG51)
- Great Sandy Desert (WA SE51, SF51)
- Paruku / Lake Gregory (Central WA Great Sandy Desert SF52-01)
- Lake Ruth (Central NT Tanami Desert SF52-03)
- Lake Mackay (Central NT Tanami Desert SF52-11, Central WA SF52-10)
- Mongrel Downs (Central NT Tanami Desert SF52-03)
- Mulan (WA East Kimberley SF52-02)
- Nakarra Nakarra / Desert River Sea (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)
- Ngulupi (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02)
- Sturt Creek (Central WA Tanami Desert SE52-14)
- Tanami Desert (Central NT SE52, SE53, SF52, SF53)
- Tanami Downs (Central NT Tanami Desert SF52-03)
- Northern Territory -- Tanami Desert
- Western Australia
- Australian
- A828.309
Contents:
Summary: This is a beautiful and intense exploration of friendships, landscape, and homecoming. Written with great energy and humour, Position Doubtful offers a unique portrait of the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia.
The remembered earth -- Vertigo -- Anxiety and desire -- Improvisations I -- Searching for the inland sea -- Palimpsest -- Testimony -- Erasure -- Songlines and faultlines -- Erasure -- Stock Route Dreaming -- Mapping common ground -- 'Kartiya' days -- Dotting the grid -- Hiatus -- Improvisations II -- Lacuna -- Lacuna -- Mapping common ground -- Obscured by light -- Requiem -- Unstable horizons -- Undertow.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 828.309 MAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | JSNWL Book Club - April 2018 | 67974 |
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Mentions about Paruku Indigenous Protected Area (Great Sandy Desert and Tanami). Also about Wirntiki Dreaming.
Mentions, number of Aboriginal names and skin names throughout the book.
Bibliography: pages 315-317.
The remembered earth -- Vertigo -- Anxiety and desire -- Improvisations I -- Searching for the inland sea -- Palimpsest -- Testimony -- Erasure -- Songlines and faultlines -- Erasure -- Stock Route Dreaming -- Mapping common ground -- 'Kartiya' days -- Dotting the grid -- Hiatus -- Improvisations II -- Lacuna -- Lacuna -- Mapping common ground -- Obscured by light -- Requiem -- Unstable horizons -- Undertow.
This is a beautiful and intense exploration of friendships, landscape, and homecoming. Written with great energy and humour, Position Doubtful offers a unique portrait of the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia.
Description based on: 2017 printing
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