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9780855751852

Being Black Aboriginal Cultures in Settled Australia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780855751852

  • ISBN10:

    0855751851

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1991-01-01
  • Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
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Summary

Bringing together the results of research by anthropologists on the social life of people formerly labeled "part-Aborigines" or "urban Aborigines," this volume discusses issues including the bases of identity, the ties of family, the structure of community, ways of speaking, beliefs and feelings about the country, and attitudes toward history.

Author Biography

Ian Keen is an eminent and widely published anthropologist who retired from teaching at the end of 2002 and is currently a visiting fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Aborigines of Victoria
Dhan-gadi resistance to assimilation
Am I too black to go with you?'
Ambiguity, style and kinship in Adelaide Aboriginal identity
They don't speak an Aboriginal language, or do they?
Kinship, mobility and community in rural New South Wales
All one family
A grammar of exchange
A Wiradjuri Fight Story
Medicine Square
A Litany for Land
Myth as History, History as Myth
Index
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