Bibliograph

'Good people always crackney in heaven', mythic conversations in lutruwita, Tasmania / Grant Finlay

Type

Label

'Good people always crackney in heaven', mythic conversations in lutruwita, Tasmania / Grant Finlay

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

'Good people always crackney in heaven'

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1107793914

Responsibility statement

Tasmania / Grant Finlay

Series statement

Studies in the history of Aboriginal Tasmania

Sub title

mythic conversations in lutruwita

Summary

Explores the religious beliefs of Aboriginal Tasmanians and the influence of Christian teachings, in particular the discourse between colonists and Aborigines at Wybalenna, Flinders Island

Table Of Contents

1. 'Fertile not fallow spiritual lives' -- 2. 'Motti (one) Nyrae (good) Parlerdi (God)' -- 3. Wybalenna : 'Black Man's Church' -- 4. 'Cracks in the Catechism' -- 4. 'Always crackney in Heaven' -- 6. 'Neglecting the simplest duties' -- 7. 'They think we have got no souls now' -- Bibliography -- Appendix A. Church baptism records of Aboriginal children -- Appendix B. Aboriginal children listed in Hobart Orphan School register -- Appendix C. Bible translation by Wilkinson at Wybalenna 1833 -- Appendix D. Sermons by Aboriginal people, other than Walter Arthur and Thomas Brune -- Appendix E. The Aboriginal or Flinders Island chronicle and other writings by Walter Arthur and Thomas Brune -- Appendix F. Wybalenna chronology -- Index

Target audience

general

resource.variantTitle

Mythic conversations in lutruwita/Tasmania

Classification