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People and Change in Indigenous Australia (Hardcover)
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People and Change in Australia arose from a conviction that more
needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the
changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous
communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion
remains embedded in traditionalizing views of indigenous people,
and in accounts that seem to underline essential and apparently
timeless difference. In this volume the editors and contributors
assume that "the person" is socially defined and reconfigured as
contexts change, both immediate and historical. Essays in this
collection are grounded in Australian locales commonly termed
"remote." These indigenous communities were largely established as
residential concentrations by Australian governments, some first as
missions, most in areas that many of the indigenous people involved
consider their homelands. A number of these settlements were
located in proximity to settler industries including pastoralism,
market-gardening, and mining. These are the locales that many
non-indigenous Australians think of as the homes of the most
traditional indigenous communities and people. The contributors
discuss the changing circumstances of indigenous people who
originate from such places. Some remain, while others travel far
afield. The accounts reveal a diversity of experiences and
histories that involve major dynamics of disembedding from country
and home locales, and re-embedding in new contexts, and
reconfigurations of relatedness. The essays explore dimensions of
change and continuity in childhood experience and socialization in
a desert community; the influence of Christianity in fostering both
individuation and relatedness in northeast Arnhem Land; the
diaspora of Central Australian Warlpiri people to cities and the
forms of life and livelihood they make there; adolescent
experiences of schooling away from home communities; youth in
kin-based heavy metal gangs configuring new identities, and
indigenous people of southeast Australia reflecting on whether an
"Aboriginal way" can be sustained. The volume takes a step toward
understanding the relation between changing circumstances and
changing lives of indigenous Australians today and provides a sense
of the quality and the feel of those lives.
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