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'Pictures from my memory is a compelling autobiographical account of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis’s life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman from the Australian Western Desert. Born in the bush at the time of first contact between her family and White Australians, Ellis’s vivid personal reflections offer both an historical record and profound emotional insight into her unique experience of being woven between cultures — her Aboriginal community and the Western worlds. Ellis shares her first memories as an Aboriginal child living in communities, through her schooling years on the reserves and the progressive culture changes that her family experienced, to her work as a renowned linguist and interpreter for judges and politicians.' (Source: Newsouth Books website)
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Launched Tuesday 17 May 2016 at the Australian National University by Dr Inge Kral, Researcher in Linguistic Anthropology, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.
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[Review] Pictures from My Memory: My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman
2017
21778245
2017
single work
review
— Review of Pictures from My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman 2016 single work autobiography Pictures from My Memory is an engaging personal memoir of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis, a Ngaatjatjarra woman growing up in the Australian desert and becoming a national multilingual interpreter. It also contains an overview of the Ngaatjatjarra language, culture and kinship system as an appendix by the anthropologist Laurent Dousset. It is a book for both the wider community and academics interested in Australian Indigenous history and culture told from an insider’s point of view. -
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[Review] Pictures from My Memory: My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman
2017
21778245
2017
single work
review
— Review of Pictures from My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman 2016 single work autobiography Pictures from My Memory is an engaging personal memoir of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis, a Ngaatjatjarra woman growing up in the Australian desert and becoming a national multilingual interpreter. It also contains an overview of the Ngaatjatjarra language, culture and kinship system as an appendix by the anthropologist Laurent Dousset. It is a book for both the wider community and academics interested in Australian Indigenous history and culture told from an insider’s point of view. -
[Review Essay] Pictures from My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 2017; (p. 115-116)'In this book Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis recounts her life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman, born in the Western Desert around the time of first contact with white Australians in the region. Her lifelong narrative spans her childhood in desert communities and education on missions, reserves and in Alice Springs and her career as an educator in Aboriginal communities and as a sought-after interpreter for government departments, politicians and the courts.' (Introduction)
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[Review Essay] Pictures From My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: AIATSIS News , May no. 19 2016;
— Review of Pictures from My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman 2016 single work autobiography'Born in the bush at the time of first contact between her family and White Australians, Pictures From My Memory is the compelling autobiographical account of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis’ life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman from the Australian Western Desert.'
'Lizzie’s vivid personal reflections offer both an historical record and profound emotional insight into her unique experience of being woven between cultures.'
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[Review Essay] Pictures From My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: AIATSIS News , May no. 19 2016;
— Review of Pictures from My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman 2016 single work autobiography'Born in the bush at the time of first contact between her family and White Australians, Pictures From My Memory is the compelling autobiographical account of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis’ life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman from the Australian Western Desert.'
'Lizzie’s vivid personal reflections offer both an historical record and profound emotional insight into her unique experience of being woven between cultures.'
-
y
[Review] Pictures from My Memory: My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman
2017
21778245
2017
single work
review
— Review of Pictures from My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman 2016 single work autobiography Pictures from My Memory is an engaging personal memoir of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis, a Ngaatjatjarra woman growing up in the Australian desert and becoming a national multilingual interpreter. It also contains an overview of the Ngaatjatjarra language, culture and kinship system as an appendix by the anthropologist Laurent Dousset. It is a book for both the wider community and academics interested in Australian Indigenous history and culture told from an insider’s point of view. -
[Review Essay] Pictures from My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 2017; (p. 115-116)'In this book Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis recounts her life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman, born in the Western Desert around the time of first contact with white Australians in the region. Her lifelong narrative spans her childhood in desert communities and education on missions, reserves and in Alice Springs and her career as an educator in Aboriginal communities and as a sought-after interpreter for government departments, politicians and the courts.' (Introduction)
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y
[Review] Pictures from My Memory: My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman
2017
21778245
2017
single work
review
— Review of Pictures from My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman 2016 single work autobiography Pictures from My Memory is an engaging personal memoir of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis, a Ngaatjatjarra woman growing up in the Australian desert and becoming a national multilingual interpreter. It also contains an overview of the Ngaatjatjarra language, culture and kinship system as an appendix by the anthropologist Laurent Dousset. It is a book for both the wider community and academics interested in Australian Indigenous history and culture told from an insider’s point of view.
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