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Author Australian Academy of the Humanities. Symposium (29th : 1998 : Sydney, Australia)

Title First peoples, second chance : public papers from the 29th Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities / edited by Terry Smith ; illustrations by Michael Fitzjames
Published [Canberra] : Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1999

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Description 137 pages ; 25 cm
Series Occasional paper ; 21
Occasional paper (Australian Academy of the Humanities) ; 21
Contents Introduction. Conflict and confluence: inter disciplines, between cultures / Terry Smith -- Certainty and uncertainty: Aboriginal studies as the fulcrum of national self-consciousness / Marcia Langton -- Historians and indigenous Australians / Henry Reynolds -- Justifying Aboriginal rights: a philosophical perspective / Paul Patton -- Ancestral songs: understandings of Aboriginal song since 1788 / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Being and nothing: figuring Aboriginality in Australian art history / Ian McLean -- Poem: comes as you are / Michelle Blanchard
Summary Symposium papers that discuss how the humanities disciplines have contributed towards mutual understanding between black and white Australians and their future role in the reconciliation process
Notes Cover title: First peoples, second chance : the humanities and Aboriginal Australia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Occasional paper (Australian Academy of the Humanities) no:21 1443-7678
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Congresses.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.
Aboriginal Australians -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
Aboriginal Australians -- Study and teaching -- Australia -- Congresses.
Aboriginal Australians -- Study and teaching -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Study and teaching.
Arts, Aboriginal Australian -- Congresses.
Humanities -- Study and teaching -- Australia -- Congresses.
Humanities -- Australia -- Congresses.
Humanities -- Australia.
Humanities.
SUBJECT Australia -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Smith, Terry (Terry E.)
Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Australian Academy of the Humanities. Symposium (29th : 1998 : Sydney, N.S.W.)
LC no. 2001320846
ISBN 090989745X
Other Titles First peoples, second chance : the humanities and Aboriginal Australia