ISBN:
9780855751906
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (224 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Past and Present : The construction of Aboriginality
DDC:
305.89915
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book examines Aboriginal identity in various forums - discourse, education, juvenile institutions, geographic locations, in terms of myths and in land rights actions. A selection of authors drawn from a variety of disciplines present a readable collection of works covering the past and the present, and many issues which face Aboriginal people in Australia today
Description / Table of Contents:
Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Myth, history and a sense of oneself; 3 The construction of identity; 4 Aboriginality in New South Wales; 5 The politics of identity; 6 The materials for identity construction; 7 Aboriginal identity: uses of the past, problems for the future?; 8 Writing black: the construction of an Aboriginal discourse; 9 The past is a doctrine of person; 10 Middle Australia and the noble savage: a political romance; 11 The moment of Aboriginal history; 12 The past in the present: the present in the past: constructing a national Aboriginality;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
