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White Flour, White Power - From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia (Hardcover, New)
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White Flour, White Power - From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia (Hardcover, New)
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The colonial practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people has
been neglected in the study of Australian frontiers. This book
argues that much of the colonial experience in Central Australia
can be understood by seeing rationing as a fundamental, though
flexible, instrument of colonial government. Rationing was the
material basis for a variety of colonial ventures: scientific,
evangelical, pastoral and the post-war program of 'assimilation'.
Combining history and anthropology in a cultural study of
rationing, this book develops a new narrative of the colonisation
of Central Australia. Two arguments underpin this story: that the
colonists were puzzled by the motives of the Indigenous recipients;
and that they were highly inventive in the meanings and moral
foundations they ascribed to the rationing relationship. This study
goes to the heart of contemporary reflections on the nature of
Indigenous 'citizenship'.
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