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PATHWAY TO THE STARS IBD

DAVID TURNER
ROCK?S MILLS PRESS
06 / 2023
9781772442847
Anglès

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In this poignant memoir, anthropologist and author David Turner tells of how he played the yiraga --- a musical instrument played by the aboriginal peoples of Australia --- for his friend and former partner Alexa, following her death in 2020. Turner describes the meaning of the yiraga within Australian aboriginal culture, and how he learned to play the instrument over the course of several decades living with and learning from indigenous peoples on Australia?s Groote Eylandt archipelago. The result is a profound meditation on the meaning of life and death.FROM THE BOOK:'Grief might prove debilitating at first and serve to clear the mind of all thoughts and distractions in preparation, except that the act of playing the yiraga induces a becalming state of mind/being in which only the sense of breathing remains. This is effected by the repetitive rhythms of the mouth-sound tempos (which there is no need to sound to oneself once one becomes adept at playing), of which there are three: degul degul, quick, degul-degula-gula, medium, and degula degula, slow. It is in a becalmed but empty state of mind/being that one potentially enters a mediating zone between the 'real' and the 'transcendent' and is able to open a portal for the departed in their journey.' Illustrated with more than 40 full-colour images

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