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  title info:
    title: Storytracking
    sub title: texts, stories, & histories in central Australia
  name:
    name part: Gill, Sam D.
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Folklore
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
  abstract: This work takes the narrative technique of "storytracking", as practised by Australian aboriginal peoples, and applies it to the academic study of their culture.
  abstract: "Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and of the academic issues accompanying the interpretation and observation of other peoples. Sam Gill writes about Central Australia, but, more importantly, he writes about the business of trying to live responsibly and decisively in a postmodern world faced with irreconcilable diversity and complexity, with undeniable ambiguity and uncertainty." "Storytracking includes engaging accounts of many of the colorful figures involved in the nineteenth-century development of Central Australia, and it is an argument for a multiperspectival theory of history. It presents descriptions of an important aboriginal culture - the Arrernte - and it critically examines ethnography. It exposes the colonialist underbelly of all modern academic culture study, yet it embraces the situation as one of creative potential, outlining an interactivist epistemology with which to negotiate the classical alternatives of objectivism and subjectivism. Gill presents an examination of the emergent academic study of religion focused on two exemplary scholars - Mircea Eliade and Jonathan Smith - offering a play theory of religion as the basis for innovative critical discussions of text, comparison, interpretation, the definition of religion, academic writing style, and the role of "the other." Based on painstakingly detailed research, Gill exposes disturbing and confounding dimensions of the modern world, particularly academia. Yet, beyond the pessimism that often characterizes postmodernity, he charts an optimistic and creative course framed in the terms of play."--Jacket
  table of contents: 1. Storytracking the Arrente through the Academic Bush -- 2. Storytracking Toward Theory -- 3. Central Australia -- 4. Irbmangkara -- 5. Altjira -- 6. The Arrernte -- 7. Storytracking the Academic Study of Religion -- 8. End Game.
  note: Sam D. Gill.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at---
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    geographic: Australia
    geographic: Central Australia
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Tales
    geographic: Australia
    geographic: Central Australia
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
    geographic: Australia
    geographic: Central Australia
  subject:
    topic: Australiens (Aborigènes)
    geographic: Australie
    geographic: Australie centrale
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Contes
    geographic: Australie
    geographic: Australie centrale
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Mythologie australienne (aborigène)
    geographic: Australie
    geographic: Australie centrale
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Folklore & Mythology
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
  subject:
    topic: Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
  subject:
    topic: Tales
  subject:
    geographic: Australia
    geographic: Central Australia
  subject:
    topic: Aborigines
  subject:
    topic: Geschichte
  subject:
    topic: Mythologie
  subject:
    topic: Volkserzählung
  subject:
    geographic: Zentralaustralien
  subject:
    topic: Erzählung
  subject:
    topic: Aranda (volk)
  subject:
    topic: Volksverhalen
  subject:
    topic: Mythen
  subject:
    topic: Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap)
  subject:
    topic: Ontdekkingsreizigers
  subject:
    topic: Aborigènes d'Australie
    geographic: Australie (centre)
    topic: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Contes australiens
    geographic: Australie (centre)
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Mythologie aborigène d'Australie
    geographic: Australie (centre)
  subject:
    geographic: Aborigines
  classification: GR366.A87 .G55 1998eb
  classification: 398.20899915
  classification: 73.63
  classification: LC 77680
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
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    identifier: (OCoLC)36066054
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    record creation date: 000807
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng