Healers of Arnhem Land

AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

For two decades, from 1970 to 1990, Professor Cawte annually visited the Yolngu clan of northeast Arnhem Land. During this time he recorded, with the clan leaders’ permission, traditional medicinal knowledge, and healing scenes were specially enacted and photographed.

This information is now presented publicly for the first time in Healers of Arnhem Land. In an attempt to span the gulf between European and Aboriginal cultures, and to encourage tolerance and understanding, this book presents anxieties and distress as intriguing mysteries, threats and challenges that confront both cultures.

• 137 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 26 cm. #211123
• Yolngu (Australian people) — Medicine
• Yolngu (Australian people) — Health and hygiene
• Yolngu (Australian people) — Folklore
• Aboriginal Australians — Health and hygiene — Northern Territory — Arnhem Land