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Overview`I want our past to be recorded for future generations to read and know and understand how life was for us desert Aboriginal people and how we live our lives now. The Whiteman and the things that he brought with him hugely influenced the changes that occurred in our lives and in our society. I am a person that experienced these changes and I want to share, from my perspective, these experiences with my people and with all these persons around the world that show a great interest in Aboriginal people, and with all those who continually keep asking me the same old questions.’ — Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis. Pictures from my memory is a compelling autobiographical account of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis’s life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman from the Australian Western Desert. Born in the bush at the time of first contact between her family and White Australians, Ellis’s vivid personal reflections offer both an historical record and profound emotional insight into her unique experience of being woven between cultures — her Aboriginal community and the Western worlds. Ellis shares her first memories as an Aboriginal child living in communities, through her schooling years on the reserves and the progressive culture changes that her family experienced, to her work as a renowned linguist and interpreter for judges and politicians. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis , Laurent DoussetPublisher: Aboriginal Studies Press Imprint: Aboriginal Studies Press Weight: 0.460kg ISBN: 9780855750138ISBN 10: 0855750138 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 May 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Replaced By: 9780855750350 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Preface by Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis; Pictures from My Memory; First Strong Memories; Now I am Go-ing to Talk About Totems; A Trip to Perth; From Wiluna Back to Docker River; Yirara College; Learning a Profes-sion; Old & New Ways; Names & Homes; Settling an as a Family; Holidays; Marriages -- The Old Ways; On Chris-tian Religion; Language, Identity & Culture; Dogs & Other Pets; Overseas Trips; Breaking Down & Getting Up Again; Appendix -- Chronology of Major Events; Extract of Lizzies Family Tree; Glossary of Ngaatjatjarra Words Used; A Short Anthropological & Historical Overview of the Ngaatjatjarra-Speaking People.ReviewsAuthor InformationLizzie Marrkilyi Ellis is a Ngaatjatjarra educator, interpreter and linguist from the Western Desert. She is currently an Australian Research Council Discover Indigenous Fellow at the Australian National University where she is working on a project documenting Western Desert speech styles and changing modes of communication across generations. Laurent Dousset is Professor of Anthropology at the EHESS (Advanced School for the Social Sciences, France) and Director of the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania). He has been doing fieldwork in the Western Desert for more than twenty years and has published numerous scientific papers and several books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |