Description |
vii, 248 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Deep in the sandstone gorges -- 2. Rhyming -- 3. Growing -- 4. Men's business -- 5. Singing the native born -- 6. Women's business -- 7. Four historians -- 8. In search of the proper country |
Summary |
"This book explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land. Always acting as a counterpoint is the prior occupation and ownership by Aboriginal people and their spiritual attachment. Peter Read, through the voices of so many different Australians, asks the pivotal questions: What is the meaning of places important to non-Aboriginal Australians from which the Indigenous people have already been dispossessed? How are contemporary Australians thinking through the problem of knowing that their places of attachment are also the places which Aboriginals loved - and lost? And are the sites of all our deep affections to be contested, articulated, shared, forgone or possessed absolutely? The book cleverly interweaves Read's analysis (and personal quest for belonging) with the voices of poets, musicians, artists, historians, young people, non-European Australians, farmers and seventh-generation Australians."--BOOK JACKET |
Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians - Land tenure |
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Aboriginal land rights |
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Attitudes |
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Australian ethnic groups |
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Australians - Attitudes |
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Historiography |
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Land tenure - Australia |
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Poetry |
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Youth |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 237-243 |
Notes |
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library |
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Signed by author 1 copy. ANU |
Subject |
Australia -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
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Australians -- Attitudes.
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Cultural property -- Australia.
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Land tenure -- Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia.
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Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Geographical perception -- Australia.
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Land tenure -- Australia -- History.
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Landscape assessment -- Australia.
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Values -- Australia.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002863
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Australia -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007005690
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Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
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Australia -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
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LC no. |
2001267643 |
ISBN |
0521773547 |
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0521774098 (paperback) |
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