Timeless Cultures: The ‘Dreamtime’ as Colonial Discourse

Time & Society

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 335-351

  Perkins, Maureen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal Dreamtime; colonialism; the future; translation; visionary dreaming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032221351     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X98007002009     Document Type: Article

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