Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women’s Law
Zohl de Ishtar
400 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1876756578
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Language: English
Publish: May 28, 2006
This deeply moving, historical account of indigenous culture—specifically, the elder women of Wirrimanu—offers profound insight into white culture’s impact on indigenous women’s Yawulyu (law) and an analysis of the competing interests that can make indigenous and white interactions complex, painful, and fraught with problems.