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
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