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Good People Always Crackney in Heaven: Mythic conversations in lutruwita/Tasmania

Good People Always Crackney in Heaven: Mythic conversations in lutruwita/Tasmania

Paperback

Series: Studies in the History of Aboriginal Tasmania, Book 5

Mythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 064841793X
ISBN13: 9780648417934
Publisher: Fullers Bookshop Publishing
Published: Jun 13 2019
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

'We die we go to heaven, good people always crackney in heaven.'

'Crackney' means to 'sit down'.

Druemerterpunner lived through the first generation of colonial disruption in lutruwita/Tasmania. He expresses the interplay of his language with the colonists' English and the different mythologies in dialogue between them. Powerful mythologies continue to shape how we speak of the past and imagine our future.

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