{"product_id":"desert-dreamers","title":"Desert Dreamers","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the heart of Australia, on the cracked red earth, among wild vegetation, weathered bush, and dried-up creeks, hundreds of invisible pathways exist that become entangled on the earth's surface, underground, and in the sky, clouds, and wind. The Aboriginal people call them Jukurrpa: “the Dreamings.” This web is the Warlpiri land. Practicing the Dreaming, by ritual art, is for the Warlpiri a way to reactivate their ancestral traditions to connect with the cosmos and respond to current social and political issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1979, anthropologist Barbara Glowczewski embarked on a journey to study the Warlpiri in the Australian outback. Struggling at once to maintain their traditions and cultural heritage as well as adapting to the continuing secularization and techno-progress of their European Australian counterparts, she takes us into the landscape, artistic rituals, and turmoil of the Warlpiri over three decades. Becoming accepted among Aboriginal families as a translator, and at the same time a negotiator of two vastly different visions of the earth, contemporary Western culture and the ancient indigenous dreaming culture, Glowczewski created a singular document of ethnological fieldwork and of self-transformation and discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Barbara Glowczewski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615062221180,"sku":"9781937561963","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781937561963_f91ba14f-781e-4b77-89e8-7ead7cd42d01.jpg?v=1726474491","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/desert-dreamers","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}