'God Never Like the Corroboree'

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Mark Galliford

Abstract

A review of Health McDonald's Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001).

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Mark Galliford, University of South Australia

MARK GALLIFORD has completed an honours degree at the Unaipon School, University of South Australia. His thesis considered the appropriations of Aboriginal identity by various non-Aboriginal artists and writers in relation to the concept of cultural becomings. <mgalliford@hotmail.com>

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