Listening to Country: A Journey to the Heart of What It Means to Belong.

AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

From a trip made by the author to the Australian desert to spend time learning the secrets and hearing the stories of her husband’s family’s matriarchs, comes a warm, intimate account providing rare insight into the spiritual and emotional world of Aboriginal women

Ros Moriarty is a white woman married to an Aboriginal man. Over the course of many visits to her husband’s family, she was fascinated to discover that the older tribal women of his family had a deep sense of happiness and purpose that transcended the abject material poverty, illness, and increasing violence of their community–a happiness that she feels is related to an essential warmth of heart” that these women say has gone missing in today’s world.

232 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm. #060823RR

• Moriarty, Ros, 1956-
• Moriarty, John
• Balarinji (Firm)
• Yanyuwa (Australian people) — Social life and customs
• Women, Aboriginal Australian — Social life and customs
• Aboriginal Australians — Social life and customs
• Tanami Desert (N.T.) — Social life and customs