Caging the rainbow : places, politics, and aborigines in a North Australian town /

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Explores the lives of Aborigines in the small town of Katherine, Australia. The author combines ethnography and theory to study issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. The vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Merlan, Francesca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiì Press, ©1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > History.
Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians > Government relations.
Human territoriality > Australia > Katherine (N.T.)
Spatial behavior > Australia > Katherine (N.T.)
Geographical perception > Australia > Katherine (N.T.)
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Histoire.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Conditions sociales.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Relations avec l'État.
Territorialité humaine > Australie > Katherine (T. du N.)
Comportement spatial > Australie > Katherine (T. du N.)
Perception géographique > Australie > Katherine (T. du N.)
Jawoyn people (N57) (NT SD53-09)
Wardaman people (N35) (NT SD52-16)
Dagoman people (N38) (NT SD52-12)
Anthropology > Theory and criticism.
Race relations.
Social identity.
Sites > Sites of significance.
Culture > Relationship to land.
Stories and motifs > Rainbow serpent.
Social organisation.
Land rights.
Native title.
Socioeconomic conditions.
Habitation > Camps.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Australia & New Zealand.
Aboriginal Australians.
Geographical perception.
Human territoriality.
Social conditions
Spatial behavior.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Aborigines
Weiße
Bodenrecht
Landnutzung
Konflikt
Aborigines.
Aborigènes d'Australie > Conditions sociales.
Territorialité humaine > Australie > Katherine.
Perception géographique.
Katherine (N.T.) > History.
Katherine (N.T.) > Social conditions.
Katherine (N.T.) > Race relations.
Katherine (T. du N.) > Histoire.
Katherine (T. du N.) > Conditions sociales.
Katherine (T. du N.) > Relations raciales.
Katherine (NT Top End SD53-09)
Northern Territory > Katherine.
Katherine > Northern Territory
Humaniora > Historie.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Places and People of Katherine Town
  • 2. From Place to Town
  • 3. We Useta Walk Around, All the People
  • 4. Tribes and Town
  • 5. Imposition and Imitation: Changing Directions in Aboriginal Affairs
  • 6. Struggles in Town Space
  • 7. Do Places Appear? Further Struggle in Space
  • 8. Conclusions.

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