Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 555 g
Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 555 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-77354-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This extraordinary book explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land. Always acting as a counterpoint is the prior occupation and ownership by Aboriginal people and their spiritual attachment. Peter Read asks the pivotal questions: What is the meaning of places important to non-Aboriginal Australians from which the indigenous people have already been dispossessed? How are contemporary Australians thinking through the problem of knowing that their places of attachment are also the places which Aboriginals loved - and lost? And are the sites of all our deep affections to be contested, articulated, shared, foregone or possessed absolutely? The book cleverly interweaves Read's analysis (and personal quest for belonging) with the voices of poets, musicians, artists, historians, young people, Asian Australians, farmers and seventh generation Australians.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements; Map; Introduction; 1. Deep in the sandstone gorges; 2. Voices in the river: the poetry of belonging; 3. Growing; 4. Men's business; 5. Singing the native-born; 6. Women's business; 7. Four historians; 8. In search of the proper country; Notes; Works cited; Index.
