Gurindji Journey
eBook - PDF

Gurindji Journey

A Japanese Historian in the Outback

  1. 322 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gurindji Journey

A Japanese Historian in the Outback

About this book

After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view. Gurindji Journey tells of Hokari's experience living with the Gurindji people of Daguragu and Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory of Australia, absorbing their way of life, and beginning to understand Aboriginal modes of seeing and being. This compelling book, published in English posthumously, seven years after the author's death, is a personal, philosophical, lyrical record of his journey into Indigenous Australian culture. Part memoir, part history, part theory, Gurindji Journey is the story of Hokari's discovery of Gurindji modes of history and historical practice. It is a breathtaking work that opens up new pathways for approaching cross-cultural history, anthropology and historical epistemology. It will appeal equally to historians of place and oral traditions, readers in Indigenous cosmology and customs, theory lovers, anthropologists and anyone interested in Australian Aboriginal history and culture.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. A supervisor’s reflections--Ann McGrath
  6. A conversation with Minoru Hokari--Tessa Morris-Suzuki
  7. Being connected with Minoru--Yuki Hokari
  8. Introduction to the Japanese edition translated by Kyoko Uchida
  9. Author’s preface
  10. Author’s acknowledgments
  11. Yuki Hokari’s acknowledgments
  12. 1 What am I doing in Australia?
  13. 2 Maintaining history
  14. 3 Place-oriented history
  15. 4 Jacky Pantamarra
  16. 5 Wave Hill Station
  17. 6 Cattle, Dreaming and country
  18. 7 The Gurindji walk-off
  19. 8 ‘New Generation’
  20. 9 For theory lovers only (if you are not, please skip to the next chapter)
  21. 10 Chill out: But the journey never ends
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. Back Cover