ISBN:
9780759111042
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 321 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Worlds of Archaeology
Parallel Title:
Print version Fantastic Dreaming : The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
DDC:
305.800945
Keywords:
Spatial behavior History
;
Aboriginal Australians Housing
;
History
;
Moravians Missions
;
History
;
Essentialism (Philosophy)
;
Material culture History
;
Aboriginal Australians Missions
;
History
;
Aboriginal Australians Cultural assimilation
;
Aboriginal Australians Social life and customs
;
Moravians - Missions - Australia - Victoria - History
;
Victoria Race relations
;
Victoria Antiquities
Abstract:
Focusing on the archaeological investigation of a Moravian mission in southeastern Australia, the traditional country of the Wergaia-language speakers,Fantastic Dreaming examines how spatial organization, the consumption of Western goods, and the practices required by domesticity were used to transform Aboriginal people
Description / Table of Contents:
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; "THEY COVET NOT MAGNIFICENT HOUSES, HOUSHOLD-STUFF"; CHAPTER TWO; ORIENTING THE WERGAIA; CHAPTER THREE; EBENEZER, FOR EXAMPLE; CHAPTER FOUR; SPACE, POWER, AND THE MISSION-HOUSE; CHAPTER FIVE; "ALL THESE LITTLE THINGS": MATERIAL CULTURE AND DOMESTICITY; CHAPTER SIX; AFTER THE MISSION CLOSED: ANTWERP 1904-1930; CHAPTER SEVEN; THE OUTSKIRTS OF CIVILIZATION; CHAPTER EIGHT; "A HANDLE OF A CUP": CHANGING VIEWS OF THE MISSIONS; REFERENCES; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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