Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 321 p.) |
Series |
Worlds of archaeology series |
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Worlds of archaeology series.
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Contents |
"They covet not magnificent houses, houshold-stuff" -- Orienting the Wergaia -- Ebenezer, for example -- Space, power, and the mission-house -- "All these little things" : material culture and domesticity -- After the mission closed : Antwerp, 1904-1930 -- The outskirts of civilization -- "A handle of a cup" : changing views of the missions |
Summary |
"Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals that the Moravian missionaries' attempts to "civilize" the Wergaia-speaking people of northwestern Victoria centered on spatial practices, housing, and the consumption of material goods. After the mission closed in 1904, white observers saw the camp settlements that formed nearby as evidence of Aboriginal incapacity and immorality, rather than as symptoms of exclusion and poverty." "Conceptions of transformation as acculturation survived in assimilation policies that envisioned Aboriginal people becoming the same as whites through living in European housing. These ideas persist in archaeological analysis that insists on Aboriginality as otherness and difference, and equates objects with identity. However Wergaia tradition was place-based, and, often invisibly, Indigenous people maintained traditional relationships to kin and country, resisting white authority through strategies of evasion and mobility. This study examines the complex role of material culture and spatial politics in shaping colonial identities and offers a critique of essentialism in archaeological interpretation."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Victoria -- History
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Material culture -- Australia -- Victoria -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia -- Victoria
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Spatial behavior -- Australia -- Victoria -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Housing -- Australia -- Victoria -- History
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Moravians -- Missions -- Australia -- Victoria -- History
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Essentialism (Philosophy)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation
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Aboriginal Australians -- Housing
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Aboriginal Australians -- Missions
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
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Antiquities
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Essentialism (Philosophy)
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Material culture
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Moravians -- Missions
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Race relations
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Spatial behavior
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Assimilation Soziologie
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Alltag
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Mission
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Kulturkontakt
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SUBJECT |
Victoria -- Race relations
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Victoria -- Antiquities
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Subject |
Victoria
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Victoria Staat
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Aborigines.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021678958 |
ISBN |
9780759118041 |
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0759118043 |
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