Ethnicity and Aboriginality

Ethnicity and Aboriginality
Title Ethnicity and Aboriginality PDF eBook
Author Michael D. Levin
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 204
Release 1993-12-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1442655747

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Ethnonationalism is a phenomenon of great importance in many parts of the world today. In this collection of papers, nine distinguished anthropologists focus on Canadian and international case studies to show how ethnonational claims of cultural groups have been expressed and developed in specific historical and political situations, from observations of Quebec to the former Soviet Union, through problems of the Australian aborigines, Malay identity, the Avaglogoli in Western Kenya, and ethnic cultures in Nigeria, the essays reflect the complexity of the claims and aspirations of different groups. Some deal with intractable demand for sovereignty, others with solutions that attempt to achieve a level of autonomy and recognition short of sovereignty. The intellectual history of the right of self-determination is little more than 200 years old. It is only since that time that the ideal of popular sovereignty by any group that views itself as a people became an accepted view. These writers have used a paper by Walker Connor, ‘The Politics of Ethnonationalism’ as a foil against which to develop their own theses. Connor argues that claims to self-determination based on ethnic identity present problems to all but a few states, and since these claims are unlikely to be satisfied, ethnonationalism is disruptive of political order. The papers in this volume do not accept his negative conclusions, although they share a sense of secession and division are less worthy outcomes than pluralist structures. Nevertheless, in Valery Tishkov’s discussion of the former Soviet Union, secession appears to be the only solution. Since ethnonationalism will continue to be a political issue for some time, these papers form a significant base for future political debate.

Representing Aboriginality

Representing Aboriginality
Title Representing Aboriginality PDF eBook
Author Sacha Clelland-Stokes
Publisher Left Coast Press
Pages 236
Release 2007
Genre Performing Arts
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Representing Aboriginality takes a close look at the dominant trends in the representation of aboriginal people in Australian, South African and Aotearoa/ New Zealand film. Jan Mohamed's thesis of The Economy of the Manichean Allegory is employed to interrogate these trends in terms of Other/Self binaries, where representations of the Other are understood to be sensitive to tensions within the individual psyches of the media-makers as well as to social tensions and stresses within the "political unconscious" of the society in which they appear. Thee films are analyzed in the discussion of the dominant trends: The Great Dance- a hunter's story, The Last Wave, and Once Were Warriors. Clelland-Stokes' forceful analysis of visual representations pf aboriginality will be of interest to scholars and students on the fields of visual anthropology, cultural anthropology, culture and media studies, film studies, and anyone interested in the visual culture of aboriginal and indigenous communities.

Aboriginality

Aboriginality
Title Aboriginality PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Isaacs
Publisher University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Pages 154
Release 1989
Genre Art
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Aboriginal artists; Robert Campbell Jnr; Banduk Marika; Lin Onus; Bronwyn Bancroft; Raymond Meeks; Fiona Foley; Barney Daniels Tjungurrayi; Wanjidari - Leanne Reid; Jimmy Pike; Heather Walker; Jenuarrie - Judith Warrie; Mabel Edmund Am; Trevor Nickolls Jeffrey Samuels; Sally Morgan, Pooaraar; Avril Quaill; Pamela Johnston; Ellen Jose; Mundabaree - Jennifer Green; Leslie Griggs; Euphemia Bostock; Fernanda Martins; Zane Saunders; Joseph McIvor.

A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900

A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900
Title A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Birns
Publisher Camden House
Pages 496
Release 2007
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9781571133496

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A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.

Reading Race

Reading Race
Title Reading Race PDF eBook
Author Clare Bradford
Publisher Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press
Pages 300
Release 2001
Genre Literary Criticism
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Examination of the representations of Australia's indigenous peoples in texts for children and of how these have helped to colour the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions of different generations of Australians. Draws on examples from popular and literary children's books of all genres - fiction, non-fiction, picture books and school texts - by both white and Aboriginal writers. Also uncovers the different ideologies of race that have informed Australian children's texts since the 19th century. Includes illustrations, endnotes, bibliography and index. Author is an Associate Professor in the School of Literary and Communication Studies at Deakin University.

Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice

Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice
Title Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice PDF eBook
Author Harry Blagg
Publisher
Pages 212
Release 2016
Genre Aboriginal Australians
ISBN 9781760020576

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Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice explores contemporary strategies which might reduce the extraordinary levels of imprisonment and victimisation suffered by Aboriginal people in Australia. These are problems that continue to rise despite numerous inquiries and reports. Harry Blagg disputes the relevance of the western, urban, criminological paradigm to the Aboriginal domain, and questions the application of both contemporary innovations such as restorative justice and mainstream models of policing. He also refutes allegations that Aboriginal customary laws condone violence against women and children, pointing to the wealth of research to the contrary, and suggests these laws contain considerable potential for renewal and healing. This book maintains that unresolved questions of colonisation, decolonisation and sovereignty lie at the heart of debates about criminal justice in post-colonial Australia. It explores the potential for 'hybrid' initiatives in the complex 'liminal' space between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal domains, for example, Aboriginal community/night patrols, community justice groups, healing centres and Aboriginal courts. This new edition covers emerging issues such as Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and reports on the consequences of the Commonwealth Government's contentious 'intervention' in remote Northern Territory communities in 2007.

Going It Alone

Going It Alone
Title Going It Alone PDF eBook
Author Robert Tonkinson
Publisher Aboriginal Studies Press
Pages 262
Release 1990-11
Genre Aboriginal Australians
ISBN 0855755660

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This collection of essays in honour of leading anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt has as its central theme Aboriginal autonomy, and includes biographical information about the Berndts and a select bibliography of their work.