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Minoru Hokari Minoru Hokari i(A92402 works by)
Born: Established: 1971
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Japan,
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East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ; Died: Ceased: 10 May 2004
Gender: Male
Heritage: Japanese
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1 4 y separately published work icon Gurindji Journey : A Japanese Historian in the Outback Minoru Hokari , Kensington : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 Z1778591 2011 single work prose 'After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view. Gurindji Journey tells of Hokari's experience living with the Gurindji people of Daguragu and Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory of Australia, absorbing their way of life, and beginning to understand Aboriginal modes of seeing and being.

'This compelling book, published in English posthumously, seven years after the author's death, is a personal, philosophical, lyrical record of his journey into Indigenous Australian culture. Part memoir, part history, part theory, Gurindji Journey is the story of Hokari's discovery of Gurindji modes of history and historical practice.

'It is a breathtaking work that opens up new pathways for approaching cross-cultural history, anthropology and historical epistemology. It will appeal equally to historians of place and oral traditions, readers in Indigenous cosmology and customs, theory lovers, anthropologists and anyone interested in Australian Aboriginal history and culture.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 The Living Earth : The World of the Aborigines Minoru Hokari , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: Conversations , Summer vol. 6 no. 2 2006; (p. 49-75) A series of first-person pieces recounting Hokari's life in Australia, particularly with the Gurindji people. Each piece was originally published as a column in a local newspaper in Hokari's home town, Niigata, Japan.
1 y separately published work icon Radikaru oraru hisutori : Osutoraria senjumin Aborijini no rekishi jissen = Radical Oral History Minoru Hokari , Tokyo : Ochanomizu Shobo , 2004 Z1599524 2004 single work oral history
2 8 y separately published work icon Nourishing Terrains : Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness Deborah Bird Rose , Canberra : Australian Heritage Commission , 1996 Z1493612 1996 single work poetry non-fiction dreaming story (taught in 3 units)
1 Reading Oral Histories from the Pastoral Frontier: A Critical Revision Minoru Hokari , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 72 2002;
1 y separately published work icon Gurindji Oral Histories Minoru Hokari (interviewer), Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill : 2000 9910328 2000 single work oral history

Oral history interviews in English, recorded in the Daguragu area, N.T.
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