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Author Henry, Rosita, author

Title Performing place, practising memories : aboriginal Australians, hippies and the state / Rosita Henry
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Space and place ; vol. 7
Space and place ; v. 7.
Contents Figures and Maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introducing Place: Fieldwork and Framework; Chapter 1 -- Colonising Place: The Mutilation of Memory; Chapter 2 -- Countering Place: Hippies, Hairies and 'Enacted Utopia'; Chapter 3 -- Performing Place: Amphitheatre Dreams; Chapter 4 -- Commodifying Place: The Metamorphosis of the Markets; Chapter 5 -- Planning Place: Main Street Blues; Chapter 6 -- Dancing Place: Cultural Renaissance and Tjapukai Theatre; Chapter 7 -- Protesting Place: Environmentalists, Aboriginal People and the Skyrail
Chapter 8 -- Creating Place: The Production of a Space for DifferenceReferences; Index
Summary During the 1970s a wave of "counter-culture" people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Nineteen seventies.
Nineteen eighties.
Djabugay -- Tjapukai -- Djabuganjdji people (Y106) (Qld SE55-01)
Performing arts -- Musical drama and theatre.
Performing arts -- Dance companies.
Colonisation.
History.
Politics and Government -- Political action -- Activism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Manners and customs
Nineteen eighties
Nineteen seventies
Aborigines
Siedler
Performance.
Hippie
Ethnische Identität
Soziale Situation
Regierung
Gegenkultur
Kulturkontakt
SUBJECT Kurunda (Qld.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Kurunda (Qld.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject Kuranda (NE Qld SE55-02)
Mona Mona (NE Qld SE55-02)
Kuranda
Australien
Australie.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857455093
0857455095