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Unmaking Angas Downs : myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station /
A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern Territory. Some stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carlton, Victoria :
Melbourne University Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Author's notes
- Prologue: Walara
- Introduction: Encounters in place
- Part 1 Exodus? / 1 Whitefella food
- 2 The white experts
- 3 Walytja
- Part 2 Walara / 4 Founding moments
- 5 Founding entanglements
- 6 Found in translation
- Part 3 Bloodwood Bore / 7 Ration times
- 8 The wind of change
- 9 A fortuitous location
- 10 Emerging economies and making place
- Part 4 Itineraries / 11 'We were always travelling'
- 12 The itinerants
- 13 The walkabout leaders
- Part 5 Unmaking Angas Downs / 14 Return
- 15 'There's nothing there now, but it's still our place'
- Epilogue: Palipmsest
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.