Being Black : Aboriginal cultures in 'settled' Australia


Ian. Keen
Bok Engelsk 1988 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Canberra : : Aboriginal Studies Press, , 1988.
Omfang
1 online resource (290 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; Aborigines of Victoria; Dhan-gadi resistance to assimilation; 'Am I too black to go with you?'; Ambiguity, style and kinship in Adelaide Aboriginal identity; They don't speak an Aboriginal language, or do they?; Kinship, mobility and community in rural New South Wales; All one family; A grammar of exchange; A Wiradjuri fight story; Medicine Square; A litany for land; Myth as history, history as myth; index. - This volume brings together results of research by anthropologists on the social life of people who used to be labelled 'part-Aborigines' or 'urban Aborigines'. Issues discussed include bases of identity, ties of family, structure of community, ways of speaking, beliefs and feelings about country, and attitudes to the past.
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Dewey
ISBN
0855751851

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