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Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community
Culture, Place and Narrative
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Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community
Culture, Place and Narrative
About this book
This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective.
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Opalâs Stories1
Figure 1.1 Opal collecting bush berries
White man want us for nothinâ
Opal: | I been livenâ at Beantree now, me anâ Polly. |
Anne: | Beantree, how long did you stay there? |
Opal: | Long time. |
Anne: | Long time? |
Opal: | Before them policemen come, been pick me up and take me away. |
Anne: | Why did them policemen take you away? |
Opal: | Yeah, take âem, take âem back away, long work, all away now. |
Anne: | They made you go work? |
Opal: | More tucker, been livinâ there work long stockmen. |
Anne: | So the police wouldnât let you live in Beantree, they picked you up and made you go to work? |
Opal: | Yeah, me and Donny go back, Donny go back longaâ house and I been goinâ out longaâ police station. Young girl. |
Anne: | Was it, I mean, did they pay you any money? Did they pay you for working? |
Opal: | No, nothing. |
Anne: | Nothing, they just made you work? |
Opal: | Nothing. |
Anne: | And you had to follow them around to all the camps and do the cooking? |
Opal: | Yeah, yeah. Clean âem and I been wash âem plate, yeah, an cookinâ. |
Anne: | Just you by yourself? |
Opal: | Yeah only me. I been work longaâ, I been workenâ longaâ police station too. Old people been workenâ, comenâ there. Jim Martin there and Tommy Hurt. I ainât workenâ no. Why but we gottaâ get the money? Why we gottaâ work for flour and sugar, treacle that sort? White man want us for nothenâ, for clothes and sugar, treacle, flour. Yeah that old Jim Martin, old policeman been here, Polly been here Donny been workenâ here. And I been thinkinâ, aye, big mob been come here. And that old policemen been comenâ right up there, up to Martin. Martin, just throwed your swag and go out, out-bush. We been just get out, no more swag, weâd a go now [tears glisten in Opalâs eyes as she finishes this final monologue]. |
Figure 1.2 Hunting goanna
Figure 1.3 Dotty, May ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Remembering Alpurrurulam
- 1 Opalâs Stories
- 2 âAutoâ Is Not Automatic
- 3 âAutoâ Is Not Alone
- 4 Translating Memory
- 5 Journey of a Lifetime
- 6 Country, Memory, Culture
- 7 Memory and Dreaming
- Discussion
- Notes
- References
- Index