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Author Austin-Broos, Diane J., author

Title Arrernte present, Arrernte past : invasion, violence, and imagination in indigenous central Australia / Diane Austin-Broos
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2009
©2009

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 W'BOOL  305.89915 Aus/Apa  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction -- Pt. 1. Remembering the Mission -- 1. Encounter at Ntaria -- 2. Kaporilya, a Big Place -- 3. The Meaning of Pepe -- Pt. 2. Life as a Standing Fight -- 4. Home and Away: The Dislocation of Identity -- 5. Living with Kin -- 6. Honey Ants and Relatedness -- Pt. 3. Outstations and Being Remote -- 7. Factionalism (or; The Secret Life of an Outstation Movement) -- 8. When Imaginaries Collide -- 9. A Very Remote Emergency -- App. A. Kaporilya Song -- App. B. Glossary of Western Arrernte Terms
Summary The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries and labourers invaded their land. This is the first study to address Arrernte's contemporary situation and also documents the immense sociocultural changes. D. Austin-Broos, University of Sydney
Analysis Aboriginal communities
Aboriginal land rights
Assimilation
Ethnic relations
Hermannsburg (NT)
History
Missionaries
Northern Territory
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission Station (N.T.)
Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission Station (N.T.) -- History
Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission Station -- History.
Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission Station.
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Hermannsburg (N.T.)
Aranda (Australian people) -- Cultural assimilation.
Aranda (Australian people) -- Land tenure.
Aranda (Australian people) -- Missions -- Australia -- Hermannsburg Region (N.T.)
Aranda (Australian people) -- Missions -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Hermannsburg Region
Aranda (Australian people) -- Missions -- Australia -- Hermannsburg (N.T.)
Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) -- Race relations
Land reform -- Australia -- Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) -- History
Land reform -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Hermannsburg Region -- History
Land reform -- Australia -- Hermannsburg (N.T.) -- History.
Lutherans -- Missions -- Australia -- Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) -- History
Lutherans -- Missions -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Hermannsburg Region -- History
Lutherans -- Missions -- Australia -- Hermannsburg (N.T.) -- History.
Missions -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Hermannsburg
SUBJECT Hermannsburg (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97061088 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
Hermannsburg (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97061088 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) -- Race relations
Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) -- Social conditions
LC no. 2008013585
ISBN 0226032639
0226032647
9780226032634
9780226032641