Desert Dreamers (Univocal)

Synopsis

In The Heart Of Australia, On The Cracked Red Earth, Among Wild Vegetation, Weathered Bush, And Dried-up Creeks, Hundreds Of Invisible Pathways Exist That Become Entangled On The Earth's Surface, Underground, And In The Sky, Clouds, And Wind. The Aboriginal People Call Them Jukurrpa: The Dreamings. This Web Is The Warlpiri Land. Practicing The Dreaming, By Ritual Art, Is For The Warlpiri A Way To Reactivate Their Ancestral Traditions To Connect With The Cosmos And Respond To Current Social And Political Issues.in 1979, Anthropologist Barbara Glowczewski Embarked On A Journey To Study The Warlpiri In The Australian Outback. Struggling At Once To Maintain Their Traditions And Cultural Heritage As Well As Adapting To The Continuing Secularization And Techno-progress Of Their European Australian Counterparts, She Takes Us Into The Landscape, Artistic Rituals, And Turmoil Of The Warlpiri Over Three Decades. Becoming Accepted Among Aboriginal Families As A Translator, And At The Same Time A Negotiator Of Two Vastly Different Visions Of The Earth, Contemporary Western Culture And The Ancient Indigenous Dreaming Culture, Glowczewski Created A Singular Document Of Ethnological Fieldwork And Of Self-transformation And Discovery. Future Dreaming (foreword To The American Edition, Univocal (2016)) -- Prelude -- Part One (1988) -- A Warlpiri Family -- Lajamanu -- Yapa An Kardiya -- Royalties -- Nostalgia -- Part Two(1979) -- What Is Your Skin? -- The Businesswoman -- Kajirri -- Totems And Taboos -- The Truck -- In Search Of The Dreaming -- Part Three (1979-1983) -- The Film -- Everything Collapses -- The Trial -- Reunion -- The Warlpiri In Paris -- Part Four (1984) -- A House For Women -- Possum And The Men -- The Revelation -- The Voice Of The Nights -- Stories Of The Spirit-children -- Part Five (1984) -- The Black Dog -- The Shield Ceremony -- Shamans -- A Ritual Convoy -- Part Six (1988) -- Changes -- Is God A Dream(ing)? -- The Hypercube -- How To Say Afterwards -- Postface To Pocket Edition, Actes Sud (1996) -- Annex (2013) -- We Have A Dreaming: How To Translate Totemic Existential Territories Through Digital Tools. Barbara Glowczewski. Translation Of: Les Rêveurs Du Désert, From The French. Includes Bibliographical References.