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Autobiographical memory in an Aboriginal Australian community : culture, place and narrative / by Anne Marie Monchamp.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781137325266 (hbk.)
Author	Monchamp, Anne Marie (author.)
Title	Autobiographical memory in an Aboriginal Australian community : culture, place and narrative / by Anne Marie Monchamp.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	©2014
Description	xi, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series	Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Note	Includes index.
Bibliography	Bibliography: page 177-185.
Contents	1. Opal's Stories -- 2. `Auto' Is Not Automatic -- 3. `Auto' Is Not Alone -- 4. Translating Memory -- 5. Journey of a Lifetime -- 6. Country, Memory, Culture -- 7. Memory and Dreaming.
Summary	This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective.
Subjects	Opal (Aboriginal woman)
	Aboriginal Australians -- Anecdotes
	Alyawarra (Australian people) -- Anecdotes
	Episodic memory -- Australia
	Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Biography
	Alpurrurulam (N.T.)
Call number	305.89915092 MON

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