Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town - Mcdonald, Heather
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This fascinating book examines the Aboriginal people's experiences of colonialism and postcolonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It analyzes how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion, and loss in order to make sense of their own dispossession and to construct a history of colonization in the Kimberley. It investigates the embodiment of Christianity by Aboriginal people through their appropriation of Christ's body -- his blood, bones, and spirit -- in order to replenish and heal their own colonized bodies. Finally, it is a local study of Christianization of European peoples and cultures.…mehr

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This fascinating book examines the Aboriginal people's experiences of colonialism and postcolonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It analyzes how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion, and loss in order to make sense of their own dispossession and to construct a history of colonization in the Kimberley. It investigates the embodiment of Christianity by Aboriginal people through their appropriation of Christ's body -- his blood, bones, and spirit -- in order to replenish and heal their own colonized bodies. Finally, it is a local study of Christianization of European peoples and cultures.
Autorenporträt
Heather McDonald was a community health worker with Aboriginal people in Western Australia and the Northern Territory during the 1970s and 1980s. She then studied anthropology at the University of Queensland and the Australian National University.