David Brooks David Brooks i(A123571 works by)
Born: Established: 1950 ;
Gender: Male
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1 4 y separately published work icon The Wanarn Painters of Place and Time : Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa David Brooks , Darren Jorgensen , 2015 Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2015 8510192 2015 single work art work

'David Brooks is an anthropologist who has worked with the Ngaanyatjarra people, including the people at Wanarn, for over twenty-five years. He researched and wrote the connection reports through which they gained native title rights over the huge tract of the Australian Western Desert that is their home, and has worked with them on matters from negotiating with mining companies to facing the challenges of making education meaningful to the youth. He has written extensively on the rich desert Tjukurrpa and art, and on the layers of social and cultural interconnectedness of the people.' (Source: TROVE)

1 Report from Blue Mountains i "My Echium, exotic that it is,", David Brooks , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 71 no. 4 2012; (p. 176)
2 y separately published work icon A Town Like Mparntwe : A Guide to the Dreaming Tracks and Sites of Alice Springs The Arrernte Landscape: Guide to Dreaming Tracks and Sites of Alice Springs; Jukurrpa Pocket Book of a Town like Mparntwe David Brooks , Shawn Dobson (illustrator), Alice Springs : IAD Press , 1991 8036722 1991 single work

'Built on the land the Arrernte people call Mparntwe, Alice Springs is the place where caterpillar beings originated and where mountain ranges were formed by wild-dog fights. A town like Mparntwe takes you on a journey through Alice Springs that shows you how an Arrernte person sees the country. This new edition of the book originally called The Arrernte Landscape tells the stories of Altyerre, ‘the Dreamtime’, and describes the travels of the ancestral beings as they made the world. A map, illustrations and skyline drawings show you the ancestors’ Dreaming tracks and the sites they created in the Alice Springs area.' (Source: Publisher's Blurb)

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