Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession

Vintage / Random House, Australia, 2003 . Softcover. Very Good +. AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINALThe biography of T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession.‘A group of men… chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age & weakness & becoming young again in spirit…the rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life – what an unforgettable scene!’Thus wrote T. G.H. Strehlow in 1935, as he began his life work, Songs of Central Australia, acclaimed as one of the great books of world literature. Prize-winning poet and historian, Barry Hill, with exclusive access to Strehlow’s diaries, has written a major work about the troubled man who grew up on the Hermannsburg mission, became the first Patrol Officer of Central Australia, called himself the ‘last of the Aranda’, and compulsively collected secret-sacred objects and images.Broken Song straddles a century of Australian history, from the race wars on the frontier to the modern era of aboriginal land rights, tracking Strehlow’s creative and tragic life in translation. xvii, 818 p., [32] p. of plates : maps ; 25 cm. #240923 Bibliography: p. [763]-782. Strehlow, T. G. H. (Theodor George Henry), 1908-1978 Anthropologists -- Australia -- Biography Aboriginal Australians -- Australia Religions - Christianity - Lutheran Church Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02) Iwupataka / Jay Creek (South Central NT SF53-14) Ntaria / Hermannsburg (South Central NT SF53-13)   Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover Very Good +