Arrernte present, Arrernte past : invasion, violence, and imagination in indigenous central Australia
Austin-Broos, Diane J.2009
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s 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. While the author 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.
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Imprint:
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2009.
Collation:
xv, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226032634 (hbk)0226032639 (hbk)9780226032641 (pbk)0226032647 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.899915
LC class:
DU125.A73
Language:
English
Subject:
Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission Station -- HistoryAranda (Australian people) -- Missions -- Australia -- Hermannsburg Region (N.T.)Aranda (Australian people) -- Land tenureAranda (Australian people) -- Cultural assimilationLutherans -- Missions -- Australia -- Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) -- HistoryLand reform -- Australia -- Hermannsburg Region (N.T.) -- HistoryHermannsburg Region (N.T.) -- Social conditionsHermannsburg Region (N.T.) -- Race relationsAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection
BRN:
317712