The Politics of Suffering; Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus

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• ISBN13: 9780522856361
• ISBN10: 0522856365
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing

Summary

In this groundbreaking book, he asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse?

Author Biography

Peter Sutton is an anthropologist and linguist who has worked with Aboriginal people since 1969. He is an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Adelaide and at the South Australian Museum and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He is the author and editor of 12 books, including Native Title in Australia: An Ethnographic Perspective.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
After Consensus	p. 14
Rage and Its Reasons	p. 42
The Trouble with Culture	p. 63
Violence, Ancient and Modern	p. 87
Bodies Politic	p. 115
Customs Not in Common	p. 144
Unusual Couples	p. 163
On Feeling Reconciled	p. 194
Notes	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 240
Index	p. 263
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