Australian Wetland Cultures

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Credits



Pt IAustralian Wetland Cultures

The Swamp Nandi Chinna

Racecourse Lagoon, Uralla, New South Wales John C. Ryan



Ch 1 Introduction to Australian Wetland Humanities: Thinking About (and With) Swamps

John Charles Ryan and Li Chen



Ch 2 Rainbow Serpent Anthropology, or Rainbow Spirit Theology, or Swamp Serpent Sacrality and Marsh Monster Maternity?

Rod Giblett



Ch 3 Artist and Swamp: Wetlands in Australian Painting and Photography

Rod Giblett



Ch 4 Poet and Swamp: Wetlands in Australian Verse

John Charles Ryan



Ch 5Plant and Swamp: The Biocultural Histories of Five Australian Hydrophytes

John Charles Ryan



Pt IIWestern Australian Wetland Cultures



Beeliar Nandi Chinna



Three Wetland Poems by John Kinsella, Dedicated to J.P. Quinton

Poem for the Gathering

The Trees Along Bibra Lake

Resisting from Within the Green Tent at Bibra Drive, Beeliar (For James)



Ch 6 Environmental Activism and Wetlands Conservation in Western Australia

Philip Jennings



Ch 7 Where Fanny Balbuk Walked: Reenvisioning Perth's Wetlands

John Charles Ryan, Danielle Brady, and Christopher Kueh



Ch 8 The Cultural Significance of Wetlands: Perth's Lost Swamps to the Beeliar Wetlands

Danielle Brady and Jeffrey Murray



Ch 9 Swamp-philia and Paludal Heroism: The Passion of Wetland Conservationists in Australia and Elsewhere

John Charles Ryan and Li Chen


Power of Deluge Glen Phillips



Ch 10 Epilogue: Twenty-Five Years of Wetland Studies in the Humanities

Rod Giblett



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