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Lamb Enters the Dreaming : Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World by Robert Kenny (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Nevertheless, Pepper converted to Christianity in 1860. -Rhys Isaac, Pulitzer Prize winning historian'This is a probing, tantalising, imaginative form of history that deals in possibilities, probabilities, plausibilities. There is much that is admirable in The Lamb Enters the Dreaming.

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PublisherScribe Publications

ISBN-101921640472

ISBN-139781921640476

eBay Product ID (ePID)92473236

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Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLamb Enters the Dreaming : Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World

Publication Year2010

SubjectIndigenous Studies, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History, Australia & New Zealand

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorRobert Kenny

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight13.7 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsA startling new history . . . an immense contribution to reconciliation consciousness in our 21st-century Australia." —Rhys Isaac, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian,The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790, A startling new history . . . an immense contribution to reconciliation consciousness in our 21st-century Australia." —Rhys Isaac, Pulitzer Prize--winning historian, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740--1790, Elegantly written and powerfully argued. . . . The Lamb Enters the Dreaming provides a new way of looking at a crucial aspect of Australian colonial history in a way that is truly original, surprising, and profound." —The judges of the 2008 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, A startling new history . . . an immense contribution to reconciliation consciousness in our 21st-century Australia." —Rhys Isaac, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790, Sparkles with wit and intelligence . . . the scholarship is most impressive." —Henry Reynolds, historian and author,Fate of a Free People, Sparkles with wit and intelligence . . . the scholarship is most impressive." —Henry Reynolds, historian and author, Fate of a Free People, "Sparkles with wit and intelligence . . . the scholarship is most impressive." --Henry Reynolds, historian and author, Fate of a Free People, "A startling new history . . . an immense contribution to reconciliation consciousness in our 21st-century Australia." --Rhys Isaac, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

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Dewey Decimal305.8991509034

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SynopsisWritten in a distinctively Australian voice, this remarkable account explores the conversion of a Wotjubaluk Aboriginal youth to Christianity in 1860. Through Nathanael Pepper's conversion, this record conducts a major reappraisal of the nature of Aboriginal and European relations in the first decades of contact in southern Australia. A unique and beautifully written blend of popular history, spirituality, culture, and personal quest, this history examines various aspects of the event, including the ritual slaughter of settlers' stock, the choice of Pepper's baptismal name, the settlers' punitive and murderous raids, and the Moravian Church's celebration of Pepper's conversion., The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria's Wimmera region. In their wake came Christian missionaries, who were just as hostile to the settlers' violence as they were to the traditional beliefs of Aboriginal people. Nevertheless, Pepper converted to Christianity in 1860. The extraordinary story of Pepper's conversion, and his subsequent attempts to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable, reveals much about the deeper symbolic and moral forces at work in this collision of cultures. Robert Kenny challenges many orthodoxies in this profound reconsideration of how indigenous people and Europeans thought about each other. He traces Aboriginal attempts to accommodate the 'people of the sheep' and their pastoralist totem, Jesus, while arguing that it was European animals more than the settlers themselves that ruptured the Dreaming. On the European side, Kenny argues, increasingly powerful scientific and philosophical challenges undermined evangelical Christianity's belief that all humanity was of 'One Blood'. And behind it all lurked the spectre of slavery and the question of the moral order of imperialism. Brilliantly original in conception, and written with a rare lucidity and lightness of touch, The Lamb Enters the Dreaming is a detailed and sensitive exploration of a life, a meditation on the matter of culture and conversion, and a major reappraisal of the relations between Aboriginal and European societies in the first decades of contact in southern Australia. 'A startling new history ... an immense contribution to reconciliation consciousness in our twenty-first-century Australia.' -Rhys Isaac, Pulitzer Prize winning historian 'This is a probing, tantalising, imaginative form of history that deals in possibilities, probabilities, plausibilities ... There is much that is admirable in The Lamb Enters the Dreaming . Histories such as Kenny's remind us that cultural difference matters, the frontier was often a violent place, and that racism is part of our history. But only part - for he also reveals the potential for understanding, belief, compassion, friendship and sharing that transcends racial difference.' -Frank Bongiorno, Sydney Morning Herald 'Robert Kenny enters with tender respect the cruelly ruptured world of the Australians as represented by the Wotjobaluk people ... The Lamb Enters the Dreaming has a depth and breadth of reflection that goes well beyond our usual topical histories ... It really is a mystery tour through such matters as translation, language, mission strategy, conversion, totemism, tradition, culture, sorcery, scripture, Darwinianism and evangelicalism. All this is done with a light touch, always with a sense of ongoing puzzlement and of closure still to come ... Take your time. Enjoy the ride.' -Greg Dening, The Age