Wild dog dreaming : love and extinction / / Deborah Bird Rose

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963665303321
• Autore: Rose Deborah Bird <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011
• ISBN: 9786613585097; 9781280489860; 1280489863; 9780813931074; 081393107X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Collana: Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
• Disciplina: 304.2/7
• Soggetti: Dingo - Australia - Northern Territory; Dingo - Effect of human beings on - Australia - Northern Territory; Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Northern Territory - Philosophy; Dogs - Philosophy; Endangered species - Australia - Northern Territory; Stories and motifs - Stars; Stories and motifs - Moon; Stories and motifs - Clever people; Stories and motifs - Dingoes / dogs; Ethics; Death; Death - Mourning; Death - Beliefs; Religion - Dreaming - Seven Sisters; Indigenous knowledge - World view; Religion - Dreaming; Animals - Reptiles - Crocodiles; Animals - Mammals - Dingoes / Dogs; Environment - Conservation; Northern Territory (NT)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? -- 2. Looking into Extinction -- 3. Bobby's Face, My Love -- 4. Ecological Existentialism -- 5. Orion's Dog -- 6. Singing Up the Others -- 7. Job's Grief -- 8. What If the Angel of History Were a Dog? -- 9. Ruined Faces -- 10. World-Crazy -- 11. Solomon's Wisdom -- 12. The Beginning Law -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: Wild Dog Dreaming engages this question, and the result is a bold account of the entangled ethics of love, contingency, and desire.