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This book offers a ground-breaking critique of the concept of
'tradition' as it has been applied in the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander context. The authors offer a refreshing new style
of analysis. In writing that is rich in detail, strong in analysis
and informed by their research experience, they argue for a deeper
appreciation of the creativity inherent Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander social life, and the way that knowledge is
constructed and deployed in complex intercultural contexts in
contemporary Australia.Each chapter draws on detailed local
inter-cultural information which include Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander land and sea ownership and management, native title
processes, service delivery arrangements for health and outstation
management, and representations in art, song and broadcasting. In
each arena there are multiple engagements with broad global
processes. The advent of Native Title legislation has led
Indigenous communities across the country being required to
demonstrate their 'traditional' connections to country.For many,
their experiences of these processes are increasingly at odds with
the complex inter-cultural realities of their lives. They feel the
constraining effect of outmoded frameworks of 'tradition' in
legislation and policy where social and cultural innovation are
characterised as inauthentic. The book draws together key scholars
in Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander social research. The
authors provide productive ways of characterising Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander social life and develop a multi-disciplinary
theoretical critique to the concept of tradition.
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