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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963665303321

Autore

Rose Deborah Bird <1946->

Titolo

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

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.