Return to Eden
A Journey Through the Promised Landscape of Amagalyuagba
Published on 1. August 1989
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Hardback
XXIII, 299 pages
978-0-8204-1118-7 (ISBN)
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In Return to Eden David Turner takes the theoretical insights of Life Before Genesis (Peter Lang, 1985/7) and returns with them to the Aboriginal people of Amagalyuagba - Bickerton Island - in northern Australia. What he finds is not only that his theoretical speculations are confirmed but also that these Aboriginal people are on the same theoretical wavelength as himself. Indeed, some are well in advance of him. Turner recounts his experience in narrative style in the form of a journey back to Amagalyuagba from Canada, proceeding from his last visit there in 1974. His first period of research had been in 1969. His Findings illuminate the meaning of the Secret of the Tree of Life in the Book of Genesis.
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The Author: David H. Turner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of Trinity College as well as a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He left Canada in 1967 after completing his B.A. at Carleton University in Ottawa to undertake his Ph.D. at the University of Western Australia under Professor R.M. Berndt. He inaugurated Aboriginal Studies in the School of General Studies at the Australian National University between 1972 and 1974 before returning to Canada. He has also worked with the Mara/Anyula people of southern Arnhem Land in Australia, surveyed the Aboriginal population of the Northern Territory as a whole and conducted comparative research in northern Canada with the Cree, in Bali, in north India, in Japan and in aspects of contemporary English and Canadian societies. He is author of Tradition and Transformation, Dialects in Tradition, Shamattawa (with Paul Wertman) and Life Before Genesis (also in this series).