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Titolo |
Passionate histories : myth, memory and Indigenous Australia / / edited by Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker |
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Canberra : , : ANU E Press & Aboriginal History Inc., , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxiv, 324 pages) : illustrations (some colour) |
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Collana |
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Aboriginal history monograph ; ; number 21 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Aboriginal Australians - History |
Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs |
Mythology, Aboriginal Australian |
History - Theory and criticism |
Australia History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part one: massacres; 1. The country has another past: Queensland and the History Wars. Raymond Evans.; 2. 'Hard evidence': the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania. Lyndall Ryan; 3. Epistemological vertigo and allegory: thoughts on massacres, actual, surrogate, and averted - Beersheba, Wake in Fright, Australia. John Docker.; Part two: myths; 4. Remembering the referendum with compassion. Frances Peters-Little; 5. Idle men: the eighteenth-century roots of the Indigenous indolence myth. Shino Konishi |
6. 'These unoffending people': myth, history and the idea of Aboriginal resistance in David Collins' Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. Rachel Standfield.7. Demythologising Flynn, with Love: contesting missionaries in Central Australia in the twentieth century. David Trudinger.; Part three: memory and oral history; 8. Paul Robeson's visit to Australia and Aboriginal activism, 1960. Ann Curthoys; 9. Using poetry to capture the Aboriginal voice in oral history transcripts. Lorina Barker.; Part four: identity, myth and memory |
10. Making a debut: myths, memories and mimesis. Anna Cole.11. |
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Identity and identification: Aboriginality from the Spanish Civil War to the French Ghettos. Vanessa Castejon.; 12. Urban Aboriginal ceremony: when seeing is not believing. Kristina Everett; 13. Island Home Country: working with Aboriginal protocols in a documentary film about colonisation and growing up white in Tasmania. Jeni Thornley.; Part five: the Stolen Generations; 14. Reconciliation without history: state crime and state punishment in Chile and Australia. Peter Read. |
15. Overheard - conversations of a museum curator. Jay Arthur, Barbara Paulson and Troy Pickwick.16. On the significance of saying 'sorry': Apology and reconciliation in Australia. Isabelle Auguste. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. |
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