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Anthem Studies in Australian History : Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History : Understanding Australians? Consciousness of the Colonial Past (1).
Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants' historical consciousness as a starting point, 'Memory, Place and Settler-Aboriginal History' combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2017-06-15 00:00:00.0.
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| Colección: | Anthem Studies in Australian History ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter Int-7; Introduction; The Disconnect; Returning to Hallett and Cappeedee; Different Ways of Knowing and Relating to the Past; Studying a Consciousness of the Past; Memory; The primacy of lived experience; A settler-colonial historical epistemology; 'Composure' and the 'cultural circuit'; Positioning; Chapter 1 Historical Inheritance: Tracing The Past; Learning from the Historical Records; Myth; History of land occupation.
- Cross-cultural relations during the early pastoral periodDecline in the Aboriginal population; The Value of Precise Terms; Settlers, pastoralists or freeholders; Defining the frontier; The Concrete Workings of Memory; Understanding one's forebear as 'the original owner'; Rollo Dare; Ruins and paddock names; Knowledge of Early Pastoralists; 'Legitimate' owners; Generational decrease in knowledge/memory about the pastoral era; Concrete Workings of Memory; Generational Transference of Intangible Traces of the Past; Variations in the quality of linear time.
- The shape of the past etched onto individual psyches and attitudesChapter 2 Dwelling in Place: Absorbing The Past; Distinguishing between Conscious and Unconscious Absorption of Knowledge about the Past; Primal Landscapes; Implicit Knowledge: 'They Were Just There'; Knowledge Gained through Being in Place and Observation; Country/Place; Attachment to Place; Homesteads; Material Objects and a Lack of Sense of Individual Ownership; Cultural Intelligibility; Aboriginal Presence; The Recognition of Chinese Gardens; Chapter 3 The Social Community: Networks of Memory and Attachment to Place.
- Different Types of CommunityCommunities of Geographical Proximity; Family and Friends; Transgenerational and Transregional Communities of Shared Experiences/Memory; Dwelling in Place: The Occupation and Lifestyle of Farming; Emotions versus Rationality; Chapter 4 The Cultural Circuit: Making Sense of Lived History; George Cameron's Descendants; Billy Dare's Descendants; George Cameron's Descendants' Stories; Billy Dare's Descendants' Narratives; Knowledge of Forebears Extends beyond Forebears' Arrival in the District; Rollo and Geoff Dare's References to Aboriginal People.
- Stories of 'The Blacks' Camp'Colin's father's stories; Stereotypical Understandings of Aboriginality; Stereotypical Understandings Inhibit the Recognition of Aboriginal Diversity; Robert Milne's Stories; Inability to conceptualise mutual friendship; Historical Contingency; Conclusions Drawn from George Cameron's Descendants' Stories; Unutilised Memories; Unsettling the Disconnect; Chapter 5 'Memory' to 'History': From Verbal Transmission to Text; Oral to Text; The Appearance of George Cameron's Descendants' Stories in Sizer's Written Histories.