| Description |
xiv, 273 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ian Keen -- Aborigines of Victoria / Diane Barwick -- Dhan-gadi resistance to assimilation / Barry Morris -- 'Am I too black to go with you?' / Julie Carter -- Ambiguity, style and kinship in Adelaide Aboriginal identity / Jerry Schwab -- They don't speak an Aboriginal language, or do they? / Diana Eades -- Kinship, mobility and community in rural New South Wales / Jeremy R. Beckett -- All one family / Chris Birdsall -- A grammar of exchange / Basil Sansom -- A Wiradjuri fight story / Gaynor Macdonald -- Medicine square / Marcia Langton -- A litany for land / Patricia Baines -- Myth as history, history as myth / Peter Sutton |
| Summary |
"It is a common belief that Aboriginal people of predominantly mixed descent, living in Australian cities, country towns and Aboriginal communities, have lost their culture. Often lacking the more obvious markers of Aboriginal identity, such as ceremonies and the general use of an indigenous language, they are regarded as not being 'real' Aborigines. Recent anthropological research refutes these misconceptions. This book brings together the results of research by anthropologists who have worked in urban and rural communities in 'settled' Australia, and the chapters document many aspects of Aboriginal social life and its development." |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians - Economic conditions |
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Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions |
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Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs |
| Notes |
Reprinted 1991, 1994 by Aboriginal Studies Press |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Notes |
Also available online |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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| Author |
Keen, Ian.
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Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
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| LC no. |
88194466 |
| ISBN |
0855751851 |
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