Format:
1 online resource (343 pages)
ISBN:
9780226032658
Content:
The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study to address the Arrernte's contemporary situation, Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred years. Employing ethnographic and archival research, Diane Austin-Broos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their present, marginalized position in the modern Australian economy. While she concludes that these wrenching structural shifts led to the violence that now marks Arrernte communities, she also brings to light the powerful acts of imagination that have sustained a continuing sense of Arrernte identity.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Orthography -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Remembering the Mission -- 1. Encounter at Ntaria -- 2. Kaporilya, a Big Place -- 3. The Meaning of Pepe -- Part Two: Life as a Standing Fight -- 4. Home and Away: The Dislocation of Identity -- 5. Living with Kin -- 6. Honey Ants and Relatedness -- Part Three: Outstations and Being Remote -- 7. Factionalism (or, The Secret Life of an Outstation Movement) -- 8. When Imaginaries Collide -- 9. A Very Remote Emergency -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Kaporilya Song -- Appendix B: Glossary of Western Arrernte Terms -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226032634
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780226032634
Additional Edition:
Print version Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past : Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia
Language:
English
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