Growing Up in Central Australia : : New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence / / ed. by Ute Eickelkamp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brooks, David,; Eickelkamp, Ute,; Lewis, Sandra,; Moisseeff, Marika,; Morton, John,; Musharbash, Yasmine,; Myers, Fred R.,; O’Shannessy, Carmel,; Roque, Craig San,; Tjitayi, Katrina,; Tonkinson, Myrna,
• HerausgeberIn: Eickelkamp, Ute,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities – roughly 1,200 across the continent – the volume includes case studies of language and family life in small country towns and urban contexts. These studies expertly show that forms of consciousness have changed enormously over the last hundred years for Indigenous societies more so than for the rest of Australia, yet equally notable are the continuities across generations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Aboriginal Children and Young People in Focus -- PART I. CHILDHOOD ACROSS TIME: HISTORICAL AND LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 1. ‘Less was hidden among these children’: Géza Róheim, Anthropology and the Politics of Aboriginal Childhood -- Chapter 2. Envisioning Lives at Ernabella -- Chapter 3. Warungka: Becoming and Unbecoming a Warlpiri Person -- Chapter 4. Fathers and Sons, Trajectories of Self: Refl ections on Pintupi Lives and Futures -- PART II. STORIES, LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL SPACE -- Chapter 5. Sand Storytelling: Its Social Meaning in Anangu Children’s Lives -- Chapter 6. Young Children’s Social Meaning Making in a New Mixed Language -- Chapter 7. The Yard -- PART III. YOUTH, IDENTITY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION -- Chapter 8. Organization within Disorder: The Present and Future of Young People in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands -- Chapter 9. Being Mardu: Change and Challenge for Some Western Desert Young People Today -- Chapter 10. Invisible and Visible Loyalties in Racialized Contexts: A Systemic Perspective on Aboriginal Youth -- Notes on Contributors -- References -- Index