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Christine Stevens' detailed and sympathetic work documents a unique experience in Australian history--the first large-scale interaction between Christian Europeans and hunter-gatherer Australian Aborigines. Recounting how Lutheran missionaries' attempts to dominate and proselytize the Diyari Aborigines led sadly to degradation and suffering for both groups, the book nevertheless preserves some valuable linguistic and ethnographic work. Drawing from interviews with families of those who survived the mission, Stevens offers a microcosm of the metamorphosis of Aboriginal culture since European colonization.
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"...Stevens has used her mainly Lutheran sources to great effect to present a well-written, often moving account of the Lutherans and their determined attempts to maintain themselves through inevitable drougts and scorching summers. Some of the vignettes are beautifully evocative..."--American Historical Review
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White Man's Dreaming: Killalpaninna Mission 1866-1915
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oxford University Press Australia, 1994. Hardcover (16 x 24 cm), xii, 308 pages (index). ISBN: 019553574X. The book and dust jacket (dj) Good to Very Good condition. Full-bound brown boards. Bumped, rubbed. Rolled, creased, rubbed at head & foot of spine and corners. Tight binding, clean textblock. The dj is bumped, scuffed. Lightly creased at edges. The dj is covered in an archival book cover (removable). "The history of the Killalpaninna Mission (1866-1915) is stark and tragic. 'White Man's Dreaming' tells how a group of Lutheran missionaries dominated the Diyari Aborigines of the far north of South Australia. These missionaries - part of the great exodus of Lutherans from Prussia to South Australia after 1838 - were intent on spreading their religious faith to the 'underprivileged heathen' of the New World. With great perseverance, despite heat, drought, floods, disease and despair, the missionaries made their cumbersome way to the desert-dwelling Diyari and established the Killalpaninna Mission." Weight (before packaging): 1.2kg. Seller Inventory # 1590
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Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 24.0 x 16.0cms 308pp b/w illusts. hardback. This book shows how a group of Lutheran Missionaries dominated the Diyari people of the far north of South Australia. They polluted the water supplies and tradiitonal foods white Johann Georg Reuther and Carl Strehlow translated the New Testament into the Diyari language. Seller Inventory # 30164963
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This study is underpinned by the prolific correspondence between the Lutherans and their superiors in Adelaide and Germany. Christine Stevens also uses interviews with the families of missionaries and Aborigines who survived the mission. Charting the history of an Australian mission house, it demonstrates the strength of the human spirit when opposing cultures meet for the first time. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR006893818
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