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Indigenous Resources 2012 Contents INDIGENOUS RESOURCES 2012 CONTENTS Arts 2-4 Language 15-17 Audio-Visual 5-6 Myths & Legends 18-21 Biographies 7-9 Non-fiction 22-26 Fiction 10-13 Picture Books 27-32 Indij Readers 14 Order form 33 Dear colleague, We can invoice your account with no fuss and no hassle! Online ordering is growing continually Welcome to the eighth edition of our very pop- due to ease of use and ability to know where ular Indigenous Resources Buying Guide. Here your order and parcel is no matter what the we offer a range of resources relevant to the stage. You can track your order from the teaching and understanding of Indigenous moment it is ordered to shipment and delivery! studies, with a great number of new and excit- ing titles for use in your classrooms. We look forward to hearing from you, In this latest edition you will find that we have retained popular titles from 2011 and added new material. Our new and bestselling items are clearly marked with the symbols listed in the Rob Watts key below. We have reviewed and checked all Managing Director published titles in your area of teaching for suit- Network Educational Australia ability, availability and price to make sure the range being offered is applicable to classrooms Quality Statement and study throughout Australia. Network Educational Australia is com- mitted to providing quality products and services to meet our customers’ www.network-ed.com.au exacting teaching requirements. We Our new secure website has all the titles in are continuously improving to enhance this Buying Guide and much more! If you want our services and product range. For further details see our website. your organisation’s orders easily processed GITC Accreditation Q-2616 simply order online using your order number. KEY: Pre = Preschool LP = Lower Primary MP = Middle Primary UP = Upper Primary LS = Lower Secondary MS = Middle Secondary US = Upper Secondary TR = Teacher Resource NEW = New to the Indigenous Buying Guide TOP 30 = Top 30 Bestseller Network Educational Australia Freecall: 1800 801 332 | Fax: 07 5568 0277 www.network-ed.com.au 1 INDIGENOUS RESOURCES 2012 Aboriginal Art Australian Aboriginal World of Art Paintings 321515 LS-US $17.99 594233 LS-US $49.99 Aboriginal artists today practice in This book explores how Aboriginal the world's longest continuous tra- ARTS painting has undergone a renais- dition of art. Widely sought after, sance over the past two decades as Aboriginal art has now taken its artists express the strength and place in the collections of the great resilience of their ancient religious museums and galleries. values and their deep connection to the Australian landscape itself. Aboriginal Art of Australia Billy Benn NEW 666318 LS-US $10.99 704394 LS+ $34.99 An introduction to the vast world of The third title in IAD Press’ acclaimed series about traditional Aboriginal art: rock artists, their art, country, law, language, and stories, Billy engravings, cave and bark paintings, Benn traces the artist’s return journey to country decorative and symbolic designs through painting. both sacred and secular. Burrup Rock Art Aboriginal String Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art of Bags, Nets and Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago Cordage 697382 UP+ $150.99 685869 MS+ $29.99 At last! A book showcasing the An in depth study of the making of Aboriginal rock art of Western bags, nets and cordage and includes Australia's Burrup Peninsula. Western Australia contains detailed diagrams and photographs some of the oldest, most prolific, and most spectacular of weaving techniques from the rock art in the world. Indigenous communities on the west and east coasts of Cape York Peninsula. Creating Frames Contemporary Indigenous Art History Place Theatre 634582 MP-LS $14.99 632791 US+ $26.99 Recognised art expert, Provides the first significant social Christine Nicholls, looks at the and cultural history of Indigenous astonishing diversity and visu- theatre across Australia. As well as al power of Indigenous using archival sources and national Australian art today and and independent theatre company explores the traditions and influences that have records, much of this history is drawn from interviews shaped its development. with individuals who have shaped contemporary Art Land Story Indigenous theatre in Australia. 636541 MP-LS $14.99 Indigenous Australian art Creatures of today is recognised throughout the Rainforest Australia and the world for its Two Artists Discover Djabugay strength and vitality. This book Country looks at some of the traditions 654735 MP-US $22.99 this art has come from and emphasises the continuous Have you heard about the red-eyed links between Indigenous art, place and 'The green tree frog that lives high in Dreaming' - the core of Indigenous Law and religion. the rainforest canopy? Discover the secrets of a Queensland rainforest in this captivating col- Purchase both Art... titles laboration between Djabugay artist, Warren Brim, and and save 10%! mentor Anna Eglitis, who have used their art to celebrate friendship and reconciliation. 2 Network Educational Australia Freecall: 1800 801 332 | Fax: 07 5568 0277 www.network-ed.com.au INDIGENOUS RESOURCES 2012 ARTS Darby Jampijinpa Ross NEW Fiona Foley Make it Good for the People Solitaire 704406 LS+ $25.99 691363 LS+ $40.99 Darby Jampijimpa Ross (1905-2005) had a constant drive The first major publication on the to communicate the certain ways he saw the world from work of this noted artist. It presents his camp at Yuendumu, a remote community in the Foley's practice as a unique voice in Tanami Desert. Australian art and a strong presence in contemporary Aboriginal culture. HAPPY TO BE ME Kangaroo Rock 687903 Have you ever been to the desert Pre-LP and visited Uluru? Have you ever The Big Book contains a large seen a kangaroo playing a guitar colourful map of Aboriginal in a rock and roll band? Well, put Australia to support the activities on your dancing shoes because in the Teacher Resource Book. It you're invited to the concert. Come and join kangaroo and also provides step-by-step dance his friends, dingo, lizard, cockatoo, snake and emu as they actions for ten of the songs on the 'rock, rock, rock and Uluru'. Audio CD. The simple illustrations help children perform the actions to accompany each of the ten Kids on our Block songs. 687904 Big Book 681700 $34.99 Do you like playing with friends in your neighbourhood all year Audio CD 677366 $24.99 around? The Indigenous kids in Teacher Resource Book 677372 $44.99 this story do. HAPPY TO BE ME PICTURE BOOKS Special Land 687897 $11.99 each Imagine the wind and rain and Dean's Footy Song sunshine on your face. Imagine 687902 deserts, seas and sandy beaches. Do you love playing footy? Are Imagine the bush and all the you a 'footy freak'? Dean and his amazing animals that live here, in team mates are! Dean plays footy this special land. and goes to training every week. The Hairy One 687898 Insects 687901 Who's afraid of the Hairy one? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Not me! It's the story we love Islander people have been living best! We've heard this story in harmony with the land and before but we want to hear it just nature for thousands and thou- once more. We know it's scare sands of years. This story gives and we feel prepared. We know it's pretend, so we're not us a lot to think about. Would you help a grasshopper if it scared. got lost in your room? Tucker 687899 Kami's Country 687893 Indigenous mob, long time ago, Kami means 'grandmother' in ate from the bush and loved it so. both the Pitjantjatjara and Tucker was hunted and collected Yankunytjatjara languages. Let's from the land. Today, Indigenous listen up when Kami speaks, families living in cities buy their 'cause there's much to learn and tucker from the shops. But when the mob go out bush on Kami knows. weekends, roo and barramundi make real good nosh. Purchase all 8 Happy to Be Me Picture Books and save 15%! Network Educational Australia Freecall: 1800 801 332 | Fax: 07 5568 0277 www.network-ed.com.au 3 INDIGENOUS RESOURCES 2012 Keeping Culture Seeing the Aboriginal Tasmania Centre 685875 MS+ $49.99 The Art of Albert Namatjira Highlights the strength and diver- 1902-1959 sity of contemporary Tasmanian ARTS 616271 LS-US $45.99 Aboriginal voices through stories, Albert Namatjira is one of memories, essays and art. Cultural Australia's best-known artists, traditions. whose landscape paintings are iconic images synonymous with the Australian outback. Landscapes of Indigenous Performance Unte Nthenharenye? Music and Dance of the Torres (Where Do You Come From?) Strait and Arnhem Land 545546 LP $15.99 674466 US+ $39.99 An Arrernte Curriculum Project Individual contributors, both which features a book and audio cas- Indigenous and non-Indigenous, sette of eight contemporary demonstrate how local music and dance genres have been Arrernte songs. A fun songbook for subjected to missionary, institutional, popular and global children and helpful for those learn- influences. ing Arrernte. Paddy Bedford NEW Winds Crossing Frontiers 563114 LS+ $10.99 704413 LS+ $50.99 The second collection from this Paddy Bedford's paintings are charecterised by vivid and major Australian poet deals with a powerful masses. His daring formal langauge evokes the range of subjects, but never strays far rocks and other amorphous features of the Kimberley from the depth of our feelings and landscape. These bold images also reflect the artist's for- our human relationships. mer rough life as a stockman. Portraits from a Land NEW Yorro Yorro Without People Everything Standing Up Alive: A Pictorial Anthology of Indigenous Australia 1847- Rock Art and Stories from the 2008 Australian Kimberley 685425 LS+ $125.99 685859 MS+ $32.99 Portraits from a Land Without People is the most com- In a remarkable collaboration, prehensive anthology of photographs to document Aboriginal elder David Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture yet produced.
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