Entangled subjects : indigenous Australian cross cultures of talk text and modernity Introduction: when they write what we read Unsettling subjects: critical perspectives on selves in writing and writing selves (Re)Writing histories: the emergence and development of Indigenous Australian life writing The pencil and the mouth: anthropology orality literacy and modernity A tape recorder and an editor: the politics and practices of cross cultural collaborative text making Crowded house: Galarabulu: stories of the West Kimberley Troubling relations: Nyibayarri: Kimberley tracker Ingelba and the five black matriarchs and The sun dancin Fighting with our tongues fighting for our tongues: Warlpiri karnta karnta kurlangu yimi Warlpiri womens voices: our lives our history and Auntie Rita Conclusion: reading the word reading the world: re reading orality literacy and modernity