First Australians (Unillustrated)
by: Rachel Perkins (author) & Marcia Langton (author) (Author)
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Publication Date: 30 Jan. 2010
Language: English
Print Length: 277 pages
ISBN-10: 9780522857269
ISBN-13: 9780522857269
Book Description
""David Unaipon-the man on the $50 note-was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal political activist, he was also a scientist, a writer, a preacher and an inventor. In the 1920s, under contract to the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia. He also acted as a 'collector' for the Aborigines Friends' Association. Most of the stories come from his own Ngarrindjeri people, but some are from other South Australian peoples. The stories were published in 1930 as Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, but the author of the work was given as W. Ramsay Smith, FRS, anthropologist and Chief Medical Officer of South Australia. Unaipon's name does not appear anywhere in the book, except where he is mentioned in passing as a 'narrator'. In putting together this new edition of the stories Unaipon collected and transcribed, Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker have undertaken a 'literary repatriation', restoring the text to its original form and bringing it home to its community-the community to whom the stories belonged in the first place. The descendants of David Unaipon played a pivotal role in verifying and editing the manuscript, noting anything which is inconsistent according to their knowledge, and restoring any words lost in the transcription from the hand-written version to the microfilmed typescript. In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith. The stories are accompanied by a substantial Introduction, which gives the historical and cultural context of Unaipon's work, and recounts the complex sequence of events that led to the theft of his book.""
About the Author
Review "First Australians builds a scholarly picture of Aboriginal history so far missing." --Michael Lund, Courier Mail"First Australians is a history project so important it makes a little history of its own." --Time Out Sydney"This collection of essays builds into a fragmented portrait of a modern nation, set against darker themes that lurk within its memory." --Nicolas Rothwell, the Weekend Australian
About the Author Rachel Perkins is a filmmakers with a thirty year career that spans documentary, TV drama series, telemovies and feature films. She recently directed Mystery Road, a six part one hour series starring Judy Davis and Aaron Pedersen. Previous to that she directed the feature films Jasper Jones, the tele-movie Mabo, the musical hit Bran Nue Dae, the innovative musical One night the Moon and Radiance. Her other television work includes multiple episodes of the award winning Redfern Now. In 2009 she completed the landmark documentary series First Australians on which Marcia Langton was the senior advisor. She founded Blackfella Films, Australia's leading creator of Indigenous screen content, in 1992. Rachel lives between Sydney and Alice Springs, the traditional lands of her people, the Arrernte nation.
未经允许不得转载：电子书百科大全 » First Australians (Unillustrated)
评论前必须登录！
登陆 注册