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People and Change in Indigenous Australia (Paperback)
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People and Change in Indigenous 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 - pastoralism,
market-gardening, and mining - 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, revealing a diversity of experiences and histories that
involve major dynamics of disembedding from country and home
locales, 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. By taking a step toward understanding the relation
between changing circumstances and changing lives of indigenous
Australians, the volume provides a sense of the quality and feel of
those lives.
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