This book examines the vital role of swamps in the making of Australian culture, history, society, community, and language. The volume highlights the importance of the wetlands to indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European explorers and settlers, and contemporary conservationists and ecologists.
This book examines the vital role of swamps in the making of Australian culture, history, society, community, and language. The volume highlights the importance of the wetlands to indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European explorers and settlers, and contemporary conservationists and ecologists.
John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England, Australia, and honorary research fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination. Li Chen is researcher and writer for environmental conservation and community development NGOs in Perth, and has published in the journals Heritage and The Conversation.
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Credits Pt I Australian 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 5 Plant and Swamp: The Biocultural Histories of Five Australian Hydrophytes John Charles Ryan Pt II Western 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 About the Contributors
List of Figures Acknowledgments Credits Pt I Australian 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 5 Plant and Swamp: The Biocultural Histories of Five Australian Hydrophytes John Charles Ryan Pt II Western 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 About the Contributors
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