Daughters of the Dreaming

Record summary

Diane Bell’s Daughters of the Dreaming documents women’s lives, ritual knowledge, land relationships and religious traditions among Aboriginal communities in central Australia. It is relevant to consciousness comparison because it shows how experiences described through ancestral, spiritual or Dreaming frameworks are embedded in kinship, gender, place and ceremonial authority. The work should be read as ethnography rather than as a catalogue of paranormal incidents. Researchers may find it useful when comparing culturally shaped accounts of presence, sacred geography and communication with the dead or ancestral beings.