The Eagle and the Crow

JM Field

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702270765
• Year: 2025

Part instruction manual and part philosophical text, The Eagle and the Crow is a profound work of First Nations knowledge and research. Written as a series of lyric essays, JM Field' s book traverses Gamilaraay conceptions of time and place, the ways English can quietly disrupt languages and cultures, and the form and practical functions of kinship systems. Most importantly, Field' s fascinating insights from mathematics offer a map for the revitalisation of Gamilaraay social structures once prohibited during the Missionary Era. Generous yet restrained, this collection is an important act of resistance.

Table of contents

• Praise for The Eagle and the Crow
• Author biography
• Title page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Epigraph
• Dhulanbaa I
• Chapter 1: Gamilaraay locatedness and the limits of Tindale’s map
• Dhulanbaa II
• Chapter 2: Gamil relationships to knowledge
• Dhulanbaa III
• Chapter 3: Kinship structure and robustness to colonialism
• Dhulanbaa IV
• Chapter 4: The form and function of Gamilaraay totems
• Dhulanbaa V
• Chapter 5: Gamilaraay kinship terminology and its relationship to dhii
• Dhulanbaa VI
• Chapter 6: Kinship, locatedness and death
• Bibliography
• Imprint page