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'Introductory comment, Editor

In 1993, Allen and Unwin published a second edition of Diane Bell's Daughters of the Dreaming. In the important Epilogue to the book, Bell comments: 'In explicating the critical perspective from which I write in 1992, I am writing reflexively of my earlier reflexivity!' (1993, 273). In undertaking this project, she makes the point (277): 'It is obvious to me now that building a case for the merits of an ethnography that begins with the experience of women entails methodological and epistemological considerations'. Her discussion of epistemological considerations is informed by standpoint theories, the attraction of which, she suggests (282), is 'that they balance the feminist intuition that women have something real to say about their lives with the anthropological injunction to transcend individual experience in our ethnographic accounts'.' (Introduction)

'Caden is Noel Pearson's nephew and the title literally means, Caden Watch Out. It is written in two languages, Guugu Yimithirr and English, and it includes a pronunciation guide. Meanings of Guugu Yimithirr words that Caden uses in everyday speech are also given.' (Introduction)