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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798443603321

Titolo

The Wentworth lectures : honouring fifty years of Australian Indigenous studies / / edited by Robert Tonkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, [Australia] : , : Aboriginal Studies Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-922059-74-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 pages)

Disciplina

994.0049915

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians - History

Aboriginal Australians - Politics and government

Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Calories and bytes : towards a history of the Australian islands / Rhys Jones -- Looking ahead through the past / Ronald M Berndt -- Aboriginal political life / Les Hiatt -- "A sense of making history" : Australian Aboriginal studies 1961-1985 / DJ Mulvaney -- Not land rights but land rites / Ken Colbung -- "Studying man and man's nature" : a history of the institutionalisation of Aboriginal anthropology / Nicolas Peterson -- Aborigines and policing : Aboriginal solutions from Northern Territory communities / Marcia Langton -- The end in the beginning : re(de)finding aboriginality / Michael Dodson -- Native title : the beginning or the end of justice? / RS French -- An Arnhem land story / Dr Marika -- Beyond the mourning gate : dealing with unfinished business / Patrick Dodson -- Unusual couples : relationships and research on the knowledge frontier / Peter Sutton -- Indigenous Australian studies and higher education / Martin Nakata -- "Difference" and "autonomy" then and now : four decades of change in a Western Desert society / Robert Tonkinson -- Guarding ground : a vision for a National Indigenous Cultural Authority / Terri Janke -- First Australians, law and the High Court of Australia / Michael Kirby -- To recognise or not to recognise : the place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution / Megan Davis.