People and Change in Indigenous Australia / / ed. by Francesca Merlan, Diane Austin-Broos.

People and Change in Australia arose from a conviction that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion remains embedded in traditionalizing views of i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 5 b&w illustrations, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: People and Change in Indigenous Australia
  • VALUE
  • 1. Bold Women of the Warlpiri Diaspora Who Went Too Far
  • 2. Predicaments of Proximity: Revising Relatedness in a Warlpiri Town
  • 3. Self-possessed: Children, Recognition, and Psychological Autonomy at Pukatja (Ernabella), South Australia
  • HISTORIES
  • 4. Reconfiguring Relational Personhood among Lander Warlpiri
  • 5. The Role of Allocative Power and Its Diminution in the Constitution and Violation of Wiradjuri Personhood
  • HEGEMONIES
  • 6. Murrinhpatha Personhood, Other Humans, and Contemporary Youth
  • 7. Mobility and the Education of Indigenous Youth Away from Remote Home Communities
  • 8. We're Here to Worship God: Aboriginal Christians and the Political Dimensions of Personhood
  • AFTERWORD
  • 9. Empathy, Psychic Unity, Anger, and Shame: Learning about Personhood in a Remote Aboriginal Community
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index