Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past

Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study to address the Arrernte's contemporary situation, "Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past" also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred years.Employing ethnographic and archival research, Diane Austin-Broos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their present, marginalized position in the modern Australian economy. While she concludes that these wrenching structural shifts led to the violence that now marks Arrernte communities, she also brings to light the powerful acts of imagination that have sustained a continuing sense of Arrernte identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-02-01
Mått16 x 24 x 2 mm
Vikt595 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226032634

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"This is a landmark book for indigenous studies, one of the best things I've read in years. I am really taken with the subtle way in which Austin-Broos characterizes and explains the formations of contemporary Arrernte life, the connections it has with the past, and the way in which she allows us to see the role of their imagination in making this world in the face of great difficulties." - Fred Myers, New York University"