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Article: People of the Rivermouth: the Joborr texts of Frank Gurrmanamana.(Book Review)
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- Australian Aboriginal Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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People of the Rivermouth: The Joborr texts of Frank Gurrmanamana Les Hiatt, Kim McKenzie, Betty Ngurrabangurraba, Betty Meehan, and Rhys Jones National Museum of Australia and Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2002, xviii+198pp., bound with one CD-ROM, ISBN 1 876 94408 0
Every once in a while, a scholarly work comes along which, by its very innovation, resists comparison with existing works in the same field. People of the Rivermouth is, I consider, such a work. Taking as its foundation a series of texts developed by Anbarra elder Frank Gurrmanamana (itself an innovative and important enough move), People of the Rivermouth is an interactive, multimedia project ...