Being Black Aboriginal Cultures in Settled Australia
by Keen, Ian; Reay, MarieFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-01-01
Publisher(s): 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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