1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455153303321

Autore

Austin-Broos Diane J

Titolo

Arrernte present, Arrernte past [[electronic resource] ] : invasion, violence, and imagination in indigenous central Australia / / Diane Austin-Broos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-23936-8

9786612239366

0-226-03265-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Disciplina

305.899/915

Soggetti

Aranda (Australian people) - Missions - Australia - Hermannsburg Region (N.T.)

Aranda (Australian people) - Land tenure

Aranda (Australian people) - Cultural assimilation

Lutherans - Missions - Australia - Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) - History

Land reform - Australia - Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) - History

Electronic books.

Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) Race relations

Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Orthography -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Encounter at Ntaria -- 2. Kaporilya, a Big Place -- 3. The Meaning of Pepe -- 4. Home and Away: The Dislocation of Identity -- 5. Living with Kin -- 6. Honey Ants and Relatedness -- 7. Factionalism (or, The Secret Life of an Outstation Movement) -- 8. When Imaginaries Collide -- 9. A Very Remote Emergency -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Kaporilya Song -- Appendix B: Glossary of Western Arrernte Terms -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860's as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and



laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study to address the Arrernte's contemporary situation, Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred years. Employing ethnographic and archival research, Diane Austin-Broos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their present, marginalized position in the modern Australian economy. While she concludes that these wrenching structural shifts led to the violence that now marks Arrernte communities, she also brings to light the powerful acts of imagination that have sustained a continuing sense of Arrernte identity.