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1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations |
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Aboriginal Children, History and Health -- Front Cover ; Aboriginal Children, History and Health ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Contents; List of Plates ; List of Illustrations ; Figures; Tables; Notes on Contributors ; Foreword by Colin Tatz ; Preface ; Notes; Reference; Acknowledgements; Special note; Note; Chapter 1: Introduction ; What the book is about; Dancing with strangers; The Aboriginal child in history; The sequence of chapters in the book; Notes; References; PART I: The child in the human story ; Chapter 2: The child and nurture in the human story |
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Cooperative parentingThe origin of empathy: the adorable baby; The choice to parent; Fat and happy, thin and miserable; The cultural constructions of childhood; Note; References; Chapter 3: Childhood in deep human history: the evolutionary origins of human childhood ; Evolutionary anthropology and medicine: phenotypes, fitness and the selection of traits by natural selection; Life history theory and the emergence of human childhood; Note; References; Chapter 4: Traditions of Aboriginal parenting ; Conceiving an Aboriginal child: the cosmology and sociology of Aboriginal parenting |
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The DreamingKin and country relatedness; How Aboriginal people conceptualised a child; Identity in a social world: being nurtured; The child as the centre and metaphor of social life; Pregnancy; Birthing a child; The placenta and umbilical cord; The choice to parent; Growing up a child: infant and toddler; The learning environment; References; PART II: The child in political history ; Chapter 5: A history of legislation and attitudes towards British, non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australian children ; Britain; Settler Australia; Aboriginal Australia; Conclusion; Notes; References |
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Chapter 6: The health of Aboriginal children in Western Australia 1829-1960 Early contact and the establishment of patterns ofstructural violence; Removal and exclusion; Control of dogs and guns; Control of labour; Control of the 'half-caste problem'; The Moore River Native Settlement; Notes; References; Further reading; PART III: Political, ecological and social disruptions to the prerequisites of parenting ; Chapter 7: Disrupting demography: population collapse and rebound ; Pronatalism and its consequences; The time course of changes to the Indigenous populationof Western Australia |
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Population collapsePopulation resurgence; Contraception and birth control is seen as different in Aboriginal society; Note; References; Chapter 8: Coolibah's story: structural violence in the twentieth century ; This is my story, by Coolibah; 'The past is never dead. It's not even past'; 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'; Structural violence and political history; Structural violence and health; Notes; References; Chapter 9: The destruction of food resources at the colonial frontier ; The cultural landscape of Australia; Food resources in pre-modern society |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317355318 |
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9781317355311 |
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