White Man's Dreaming. Killalpaninna Mission 1866-1915

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: Oxford
Publisher Year: 1994
Edition: First Edition

Description: 308 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Christine Stevens detailed and sympathetic work documents a unique experience in Australian history--the first large-scale interaction between Christian Europeans and hunter-gatherer Australian Aborigines. Recounting how Lutheran missionaries attempts to dominate and proselytize the Diyari Aborigines led sadly to degradation and suffering for both groups, the book nevertheless preserves some valuable linguistic and ethnographic work. Drawing from interviews with families of those who survived the mission, Stevens offers a microcosm of the metamorphosis of Aboriginal culture since European colonization.

ISBN: 9780195535747