Living in Two Worlds
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself
This book come highly recommended by Christian workers who have been working with Aboriginal Australians. If you are not a book worm, we would recommend the video series of 4 YouTube clips that range from 11:44-16:57 minutes about principles of When Helping Hurts book.
Humbugged during Church
Kristan (as a minster in Katherine) reflects on Biblical themes of the every day response to being humbugged in the Katherine Times.
'The Fourth World in the First World: Missiology and Aboriginal Churches in the Northern Territory By Bishop Greg Anderson Diocese of the Northern Territory.
A fair go: Aboriginal living and learning in the dominant Australian culture / by Barbara J. Sayers
The papers in this publication result from the author's years of studying and learning the Aboriginal language, Wik-Mungkan, while she lived in the Aurukun community on the Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland between 1962 and 1995. The papers in Part 1 discuss communication issues such as: degrees of abstraction in the language; language structure; left or right brain orientation; and pragmatic isses of misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication. The papers in Part 2 are concerned with the lack of opportunity afforded to children in Aboriginal community schools and the author's efforts to improve learning for Aboriginal children.
John Rudder "Yolnu cosmology: an unchanging cosmos incorporating a rapidly changing world?”
This thesis is first and foremost a descriptive ethnography of the cosmology of the Yolnu people who live in the North East Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory of Australia. This thesis is first and foremost a descriptive ethnography of the cosmology of the Yolnu people who live in the North East Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory of Australia. Supplementary to that description it explores the relationship between the Yolnu presupposition of changelessness, the rapidly changing world in which they live and their cosmology.
Click here to read Rudder’s full PhD thesis - 446 pages
Lyndal Walker started her career as a teacher but preferred disciplining young people over teaching them. For ten years, she served in the Northern Territory, Australia, as a chaplain at an Aboriginal residential college and in various other capacities with First Nations youth and adults. Here is a copy of a paper she wrote for her masters in 2016 titled, 'Giving Voice to First Nations Young People Disengaged from Education in the Northern Territory with a Specific Focus on Barriers to Education and their Aspirations for the Future’. Lyndal now serves with Youth For Christ International as Prayer Director.
General Cross Cultural Resources
Very helpful for Aboriginal Australian ministry, but not direct examples/context used.
Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships
by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter (Author), Marvin K. Mayers (Author)
The quiz in ’Ministering Cross-culturally’s book, which is also in this link is highly recommended and helped me to learn a lot about myself with working with Aboriginal Australians. This included finding that I was more event-oriented than time-oriented, which suited my work with aboriginal folk.
Cultural Intelligence - Improving Multicultural Culture
David A Livermore.
Cultural Intelligence is presented as part of ‘Living in Two Worlds’ unit within the ’Transition Training Remote Indigenous Ministry’ training course. This book is recommended as further reading to understand more in-depth.
Transforming Culture (1986)
by S Lingenfelter
I highly recommend reading chapter 5 titled ‘Generosity and Exchange’ in terms of learning more about Reciprocal Sharing, aka Humbug.
A Genealogy of ‘Demand Sharing’.
John Altman from ANU, writes about ‘demand sharing’ in Aboriginal Australian context. The ‘Demand sharing’ concept was originally introduced in 'Demand Sharing Reciprocity and the Pressure for Generosity among Foragers by Nicolas Peters'. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/683021)
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