Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime (Inner Traditions): Amazon.de: Robert Lawlor: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 432 Seiten
Verlag: Inner Traditions (22. Oktober 1992)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0892813555
ISBN-13: 978-0892813551
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 25,6 x 20,2 x 2,3 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 265.566 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
- Nr. 100 in Englische Bücher > Geschichte > Australien & Ozeanien > Australien

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From Kirkus Reviews

Lawlor, whose professed credentials include ``many years studying the thought forms of ancient civilizations,'' six years of living in grass huts in South India, and some time spent talking with Australian Aborigines and studying their culture, presents a remarkably comprehensive and fascinating account of the Aboriginal world view and its potential usefulness in imagining future directions for our own faltering culture. An end to our civilization is all too easy to imagine. What we Westerners are forgetting in our panicked apprehension, suggests Lawlor, is that death--of a culture or an individual--is not always such a terrible prospect when the potential for rebirth exists. Acting on the assumption that the Aboriginal culture of Australia, which is among the oldest and least altered of ``primitive'' cultures still surviving, may provide inspiration for a new and healthier cultural growth in our own polluted soil, the author painstakingly explores the Aboriginal approach to such concepts as the creation of humanity, time and space, the power of the earth's magnetic forces, kinship, life cycles, male and female roles, sexuality, death, and mysticism. Comparing the holistic, cyclical world view of the Aborigines with the compartmentalized, open- ended, and increasingly desperate nature of Western civilization, Lawlor points out that ideas that Westerners are now only beginning to rediscover--living in harmony with nature, accepting death as part of the process of life, recognizing the futility of exaggerated individualism--have long been practiced and understood by a civilization the West nearly destroyed, and may yet serve to help all of us ``dream'' of a healthier future. Lawlor's careful, accessible exploration of Aboriginal customs and beliefs, plus a spectacular collection of 20 color plates, 80 b&w photographs (many dating back to the turn of the century), and beautifully detailed line art, are truly worthwhile. And his central argument certainly is au courant--it's the same one used by Daniel Quinn in his Turner Tomorrow Award-winning novel, Ishmael (p. 1308). -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Library Journal

Customs and beliefs of the Australian Aborigines have long fascinated social scientists. Placing little value on material possessions or the concept of linear time, the Aborigines possess a complex social, religious, and ceremonial system focused on preserving and maintaining their ancestral lands. In the tradition of armchair anthropologists, Lawlor attempts to enter the Aboriginal mind, taking as sources early ethnological accounts, conversations with Aborigines reviving ancestral beliefs, and insights from his study of ancient religions. He believes the Aborigines possess an archaic consciousness vital to the survival of the planet, a view of human life held by ancient hunter-gatherer societies but lost with the emergence of advanced technology. Avoiding anthropological jargon, Lawlor presents a survey of Aboriginal belief and way of life, enhanced by illustrations of Aboriginal art and early photographs of Aboriginal ceremonies. Bibliographic sources, though not seen, appear to be extensive. Recommended for large collections.
- Lucille Boone, San Jose P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Bizarre 4. Mai 2000

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The Aboriginal culture depicted in this book bears little resemblance to that of the people I've spent most of my life working with. Alongside his often bizarre, and unfounded, specultations on Aboriginal beliefs, origins and abilities, Lawlor almost exclusively draws on the past (and very old ethnological sources) to describe Aboriginal life and culture - apparently deciding that living, contemporary Aboriginal culture is of little interest. Aboriginal people are not stuck in the past, nor are they representatives of a past way of life that Westerners can identify with and make themselves feel better. They have (and have always had) a living changing culture, but you wouldn't know it from this book

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The Noble Savage 21. Januar 1999

Von David Moore (einbks@onthe.net.au

If you are interested in the mythology of the noble savage you may like this new age version of aboriginal culture, but if you are after something real look elsewhere.

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One of the best books on the Australian Aborigines. 27. Oktober 1997

Von Casca

Lawlor weaves together three strands:beliefs and customs of the Australian Aborigines, an indictment of Western civilization, and aspects of the new physics.He has penetrated Aboriginal consciousness to explain their world view from the inside.He explains why the land is sacred to them, and how keeping in contact with the Dreamtime maintained their way of life for over 100,000 years.The deeper and symbolic meanings of Aboriginal social organization and life cycle rituals are discussed.This is a book that can expand the boundaries of the mind.