Raft

Hybrid Publishers, 2010. Softcover. Fine. AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal Every year for over a decade Goldenberg, a white middle-aged doctor, has spent numerous periods working as a relieving doctor for Aboriginal communities in remote places.On these visits he has observed and recorded Aboriginal Australians lives without resorting to simplification or glib solutions. Among his true stories we meet psychotic Elijah who believes he is Satan’s boss and cannot die; a dehydrated baby whose mother gambles away money for food; an old lady who receives a gashed head while fending off a thief stealing her money - her husband. In the midst of tragedy, suffering and moral ambiguity, these stories also tell of cultural richness and common humanity. Goldenberg writes: ‘Aboriginal Australians are not at peace. They are variously unwell, underfed, overfed, afflicted excessively by our lifestyle diseases, confused by our drugs and drink, endowed with income but not with work, living in sickening poverty in paradisiacal places; and distracted from their serious cultural business by the trappings of our serious cultural emptiness. 220 p. : map ; 24 cm. #031123 Signed by Author (inscription) Goldenberg, Howard Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- 21st century Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene Health status - Child health Sex relations - Child sexual abuse Health services Substance use - Alcohol Health services - Health workers Nepabunna (NE SA Flinders Ranges SH54-09) Elcho Island (East Arnhem Land NT SC53-15, SD53-03) Halls Creek (WA East Kimberley SE52-10) Bidyadanga / Lagrange (WA West Kimberley SE51-10) Galiwinku (Elcho Island East Arnhem Land NT SD53-03) Balgo / Wirrimanu (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02) Flinders Ranges (NE SA SH54-09, SH54-13) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover Fine