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
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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.
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