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Author Read, Peter, 1945-

Title Belonging : Australians, place and Aboriginal ownership / Peter Read
Published Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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 WATERFT LAW  KM 208.433 K1 Rea/Bap  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL  346.940432 Rea/Bap  AVAILABLE
 MELB  KM 208.433 K1 Rea/Bap  AVAILABLE
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
Aboriginal land rights
Attitudes
Australian ethnic groups
Australians - Attitudes
Historiography
Land tenure - Australia
Poetry
Youth
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 237-243
Notes Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library
Signed by author 1 copy. ANU
Subject Australia -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
Australians -- Attitudes.
Cultural property -- Australia.
Land tenure -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia.
Australians -- Social life and customs.
Geographical perception -- Australia.
Land tenure -- Australia -- History.
Landscape assessment -- Australia.
Values -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002863
Australia -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007005690
Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
Australia -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
LC no. 2001267643
ISBN 0521773547
0521774098 (paperback)
Other Titles Belonging