Four Circles: Customs that are Law in an Aboriginal Cosmoscape

Title: Four Circles: Customs that are Law in an Aboriginal Cosmoscape

Authors: Hugh Cairns and Yidumduma Bill Harney

Type: Paperback Book

ISBN: 9780994443205

Publication Year: 2014

Publisher: H.C. Cairns, Excell Printing Group

Length: 212 pages

Dimensions: 27 cm (width) x 21 cm (height) x 1 cm (depth) - Landscape Style

Weight: 0.770 kg

Shipping Cost: $12.20 (Standard Shipping, Australia Post)

Price includes shipping (Australia-wide)

All proceeds go to the Australian Association for Astronomy in Culture, Inc. (Charity)

This book on Wardman astronomy from Bill Idumduma Harney, his second after Dark Sparklers, is about Wardaman Law. Part One conveys his Aboriginal authority through his traditional upbringing and training as an Elder. Part Two emphasizes the oral tradition and its expression in metaphor and the arts, and culminates in his Spiritual Law painting – The Imulun. Part Three shows him perceiving modern Australian Law in family and other events within his community, and seeing its working Law within the Constitution as ‘non-spiritual’, causing ineffectiveness within the Australian law system in relation to Aboriginal people, and uncertainty in the general population.

This book is provided by Hilary Cairns, the widow of the late Hugh Cairns, who has warmly welcomed us selling this book to the public with proceeds going to charity. We purchase these books in bulk directly from Ms Cairns.