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GURINDJI JOURNEY (book)
PLEASE NOTE: Prices are in Australian dollars and include postage.
Published in May 2011.
Paperback / 256pp / 234x153mm
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 and historical epistemology. It will appeal equally to historians of place and oral traditions, readers in Indigenous cosmology and customs and anyone interested in Australian Aboriginal history and culture.
The author, Minoru Hokari, is the subject of a new documentary, JAPARTA, being produced by Ronin Films, and co-directed by Andrew Pike and Ann McGrath (the team that made the award-winning Message from Mungo - see www.roninfilms.com.au/video/827/80/9901.html).
Production of JAPARTA is due for completion in mid-2023. For details about the film, and to make a tax-deductible contribution, see documentaryaustralia.com.au/project/japarta/
VIEW TRAILER OF "JAPARTA" HERE: vimeo.com/502001967
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