Yes.
Androo
On 03/04/07, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Stephen. In a country where Indigenous health and welfare is a
> disgrace, and a ready political tin to be kicked when needed, dubious
> mystical obfuscation is not helpful.
>
> cal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Vincent
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2007 8:42 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Poem - Run
>
> > Ahhh Kasper - the word songline refers to a White understanding of a
> > complex Indigenous (Australian Aboriginal) system of communications,
> > kinship rules and beliefs - a 'system' insofar as that is the only
> word
> > we have in English to try and grasp another culture's world. It was
> used
> > by Bruce Chatwin in the novel "The Songlines", a book that was popular
> > for a time among people here and overseas who had obviously never been
> > near Indigenous culture in this country, and were clinging to a
> > sickening amalgam of hand-picked slices of Rousseau and ideas of a
> Gaia.
> >
> > caleb
>
>
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Andrew
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