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Title: “The land of Byamee”: K. Langloh Parker, David Unaipon, and popular Aboriginality in the assimilation era
Author/Creator: Carey, Hilary M.
Description: Popular Aboriginal legendary tales have been one of the most significant ways in which Aboriginality has been constructed in Australia, but they have not received much attention prior to this paper. Beginning with missionary accounts of Baiame, a deity associated with Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) and Wiradhuri (Wiradjuri) speaking peoples of colonial Australia, the author examines the way in which the theme of the Great Spirit or Baiame is developed in popular mythology. The focus is placed on two key writers: K. Langloh Parker and David Unaipon. It is argued that the popular discourse of “The Land of Byamee” reflected the political constraints of the assimilation era.
Relation: Journal of Religious History Vol. 22, Issue 2, p. 200-218
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.00059
Date: 1998
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Keyword(s): Aboriginality; David Unaipon; K. Langloh Parker; Baiame
Resource Type: journal article
Rights: The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/922771
Identifier: ISSN:0022-4227
Language: eng

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