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UNINA9910141785203321 |
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Power, culture, economy : indigenous Australians and mining / / Jon Altman and David Martin (editors) |
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Acton, A.C.T. : , : ANU E Press, , 2009 |
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9781921536878 |
9781921536861 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (243 pages) |
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AltmanJon C. <1954-> |
MartinDavid (David Fernandes) |
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Aboriginal Australians - Economic conditions |
Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions |
Mineral industries - Australia |
Mineral industries - Environmental aspects - Australia |
Mineral industries - Social aspects - Australia |
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
Economics |
Mineral industries |
Mineral industries - Environmental aspects |
Mineral industries - Social aspects |
Australia |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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"Research over the past decade in health, employment, life expectancy, child mortality, and household income has confirmed that Indigenous Australians are still Australia's most disadvantaged group. Those residing in communities in regional and remote Australia are further disadvantaged because of the limited formal economic opportunities there. In these areas mining developments may be the major--and sometimes the only--contributors to regional economic development. However Indigenous communities have gained only relatively limited long-term economic development benefits from mining activity on land |
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that they own or over which they have property rights of varying significance. Furthermore, while Indigenous people may place high value on realising particular non-economic benefits from mining agreements, there may be only limited capacity to deliver such benefits. This collection of papers focuses on three large, ongoing mining operations in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory under two statutory regimes--the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 and the Native Title Act 1993. The authors outline the institutional basis to greater industry involvement while describing and analysing the best practice principles that can be utilised both by companies and Indigenous community organisations"--Publisher's description. |
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UNINA9910453206003321 |
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Balberg Mira <1978-> |
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Titolo |
Purity, body, and self in early rabbinic literature / / Mira Balberg |
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Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Purity, Ritual - Judaism |
Rabbinical literature - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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 and indexes. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Sources of Impurity to Circles of Impurity -- 2. Subjecting the Body -- 3. Objects That Matter -- 4. On Corpses and Persons -- 5. The Duality of Gentile Bodies -- 6. The Pure Self -- Epilogue: Recomposing Purity and Meaning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Source Index |
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This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical |
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laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between one's self and one's body and, more broadly, the relations between one's self and one's human and nonhuman environments. With their heightened emphasis on subjectivity, consciousness, and self-reflection, the rabbis reinvented biblically inherited language and practices in a way that resonated with central cultural concerns and intellectual commitments of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world. Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature adds a new dimension to the study of practices of self-making in antiquity by suggesting that not only philosophical exercises but also legal paradigms functioned as sites through which the self was shaped and improved. |
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