Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 An Intimate Portrayal of Loss and Hope
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As he moves through his academic life in busy Melbourne, anthropologist John Bradley holds the songlines of the coastal country around remote Borroloola in the forefront of his thoughts. In its tone of profound engagement it recalls the mid-century anthropologist Ted Strehlow; in its anguished explanation of the traps besetting contemporary Aboriginal societies, it comes from the same stable of thought as Peter Sutton's recent work.

'For the old keepers of the landscape, it seems clear the world is shrivelling, losing its resonance, precisely because the people who belonged to it are gone and the law is weakening' (pull quote).

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    y separately published work icon The Weekend Australian 7-8 August 2010 Z1714592 2010 newspaper issue 2010 pg. 22-23 Section: Review
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