Articles related to "Dreamtime"



Tjukurrpa, Dreamtime, Dreaming
Examining the term "Dreamtime" as an example of the linguistic and cultural colonisation of Aboriginal peoples by western researchers.
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Dreamtime
The Aboriginal people of Australia have a culture that goes back several thousand years, to the Dreamtime, which is in danger of being lost. "The Dreamtime is always and never, a time that never was and is always happening. It is the force that spiritually maintains the world and has to be constantly recreated through ritual, meditation, and prayer if the world, the clan and the self are to be renewed" (Jean Houston).
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Setting the Scene – Aboriginal Heritage
This article outlines the formation of the Australian continent, and its original inhabitants. It also outlines a brief description of their lives and customs.
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Vision Quest
A bit of fiction about dreams and the Vision Quest.
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Cinematic Dream: Time Within Time
A discussion of dream in the cinematic arts focusing on the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, and Akira Kurosawa. Many links.
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Walkabout Art
An account of the American Walkabout Tour to the United States, by one of the poets who survived it.
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Cultural Colonisation
Westerners are always forcing their constructs and definitions of Aboriginality upon us. This poem written "by" (for) my neice at school will shock you.
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Linear vs Circular Logic
Aboriginal circular time is considered part of dreamtime myths, while western linear time is considered to be the reality. But does western physics support this?
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The Mexico Interview (Part Two)
The concluding half of the legendary "Mexico Interview" - a discussion between poets, Billy Marshall Stoneking and Charles Hasty, concerning oral tradition, Aboriginal culture and the influence of Australian performance poetry.
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The Power of the Song - Part 1
Poet, Billy Marshall Stoneking, talks about the challenge of finding and writing poetry in a cross-cultural context.
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The Power of the Song - Part 2
The last part of Billy Marshall Stoneking's article concerning the making of his best-selling book of poems, <I>Singing the Snake</I>.
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