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The Aboriginal World View : A White Person’s Ideas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

M. Christie
M. Christie*
Affiliation:
Milingimbi, N.T.
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What does world view mean? What is the Aboriginal world view like and how does it affect people’s behaviour? Is it possible for a white Australian to understand the Aboriginal world view? In this article I hope to present a white person’s point of view on these questions. I have three sources of information: eight years living with Milingimbi Yolngu, ten years learning and working with the Yolngu language, and as many years reading the works of anthropologists, linguists and Aboriginal writers. I feel that I have only the remotest understanding of this question but it is one which needs to be thought about and talked about. Hopefully this article will provoke debate.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 1984 , pp. 3 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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