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Hill, Barry.
BROKEN SONG - T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession. A biography of Strehlow and a history of the Centre.
BNo.1-74051-229-4. Second Impression, 2003 (2002) (pb). Pp: xix, 818; 235mm x 155mm; 1.22kg. 52 b/w, 10 fig, 1 map.
Acknowledgments, overture, permissions, bibliography, index.
A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg.
Vintage, Random House Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney, 2003.
(The author, Barry Hill, with exclusive access to Strehlow's diaries, offers a deeply layered intellectual recovery of Strehlow's life in translation, and, by implication, a placement of it in the context of contemporary anxieties about cultural degeneration and continuity.
This is both a critical study of the work and an intimate narrative of Strehlow's yearnings.
Broken Song straddles a century of Australian history, from the race wars on the frontier to the modern era, and flowing through everything is Strhlow's passionate ambivalence towards Aranda culture's mode of sustaining desire)
(Keywords: Biography, anthropologist, Strehlow, history, Central Australia, Aborigines, Aranda).
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