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Two Witnesses

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September 2002, no. 244

An Intruder’s Guide to East Arnhem Land by Andrew McMillan

Duffy & Snellgrove, $22 pb, 342 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Yorro Yorro: Spirit of the Kimberley by David Mowaljarlai and Jutta Malnic

Magabala, $32.95 pb, 252 pp

Two Witnesses

by
September 2002, no. 244

The reissue by Magabala of the late David Mowaljarlai and Jutta Malnic’s Yorro Yorro coincided with the publication of Andrew McMillan’s An Intruder’s Guide to East Arnhem Land. These radically different books address cultural exchange between Aboriginal and settler cultures. On one level a banal travelogue, Yorro Yorro is transfigured by the language and stories of Mowaljarlai, and fits, to an extent, into romantic discourses about indigenous people. It is no surprise that it is published in the USA by Inner Traditions International, a leading publisher of books on indigenous cultures and self-development. An Intruder’s Guide is a more sober piece of writing: McMillan combines textured descriptions of Yolgnu politics and life with dry but lucid historical narrative.

An Intruder’s Guide to East Arnhem Land

An Intruder’s Guide to East Arnhem Land

by Andrew McMillan

Duffy & Snellgrove, $22 pb, 342 pp

Yorro Yorro: Spirit of the Kimberley

Yorro Yorro: Spirit of the Kimberley

by David Mowaljarlai and Jutta Malnic

Magabala, $32.95 pb, 252 pp

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