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Performing place, practising memories : aboriginal Australians, hippies and the state /

During the 1970s a wave of "counter-culture" people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Henry, Rosita (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Series:Space and place ; v. 7.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Figures and Maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introducing Place: Fieldwork and Framework; Chapter 1
  • Colonising Place: The Mutilation of Memory; Chapter 2
  • Countering Place: Hippies, Hairies and 'Enacted Utopia'; Chapter 3
  • Performing Place: Amphitheatre Dreams; Chapter 4
  • Commodifying Place: The Metamorphosis of the Markets; Chapter 5
  • Planning Place: Main Street Blues; Chapter 6
  • Dancing Place: Cultural Renaissance and Tjapukai Theatre; Chapter 7
  • Protesting Place: Environmentalists, Aboriginal People and the Skyrail.
  • Chapter 8
  • Creating Place: The Production of a Space for DifferenceReferences; Index.