ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blue Haze, Smallpox, Northern Territory
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Dream time is the real world; one of the two parallel realities for the aborigines. Everything in the world is held together by the song line. Epitomized the notion of opposite of europeans. Europeans were annoying that they had no interest in progressing. Therefore, they were nothing better than dogs and concluded they weren"t human at all; they shot them dead and hung them as scarecrows. *recall; these are the rst people who stepped out of africa. Northern territory people: they had a non linear way of thinking. Strength of common idea; universal philosophy connected different territorial clans. Ritual gestures was necessary to keep the world revolve. They have no notion of time, no notion of past present or future. (no word for it). There is not one word, for notion, no linear time. The entire purpose of existing isn"t about progressing; it"s about the rituals. The dreaming was a transgression, to move all past to an unlimited future.
