Growing Up in Central Australia : : New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence /

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

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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 educatio...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (310 p.)
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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

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