Cool drink and culture

Streaming video - 2014

In the Aboriginal community of Mt Liebig, about 300km west of Alice Springs, a group of young women talk about the importance of bush food in their culture and its relationship to good health. In contrast, they associate sickness with “takeaway shop food” and describe Alice Springs as a “takeaway town: takeaway food, takeaway grog and takeaway sickness”. The women visit the nearby Irantji waterhole with a group of children to teach them how to find and prepare bush foods bush bananas, bush berries, witchetty grubs, wild honey, and kangaroo. The foods are not only more healthy but are also integrally linked to their own culture and quality of life. Through their personal experiences, the women of Mt Liebig provide insight into the g...entle ebb and flow of their community life and the effect that outside influences have on their existence.

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Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming 2014.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm)
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Sonja Dare (-)
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, 22 min. 20 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Production Credits
Director/writer/cinematographer, Sonja Dare ; editor, Dena Curtis ; series producer, Barbara Clifford.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).