Description |
xi, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Pt. 1. Setting Up Labor-Action: Legitimate Law, Identity, History. Ch. 1. Legal Entanglements: Aboriginal Action and Identity. Ch. 2. Positioning Aborigines: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Aboriginal Pasts -- Pt. 2. Assessing Labor-Action: Dreaming, Development, Knowledge/Power. Ch. 3. Labor's Lot: The Construction of Human Bodies and the Countryside. Ch. 4. "Today We Struggle": Contemporary Hunting, Fishing, and Collecting and the Market. Ch. 5. "Being There": Dreaming and Development as Political Frames for Land Use. Ch. 6. The Assessment of Cultural Identity and Political-Economic Practice: A Conclusion |
Summary |
Analysis of the role of labour in every day activities and its influence on the construction of identity among the Belyuen Aborigines, Cox Peninsula, NT; Western definitions of labour; Aboriginal relationship to land and land ownership; concepts of knowledge and the role of story; negotiation of the land claim process - Kenbi land Claim; representation of pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial Aboriginality in the Darwin region - Laragiya and Wagaitj; Aboriginal women's use and narratives of the past; interpretation of mythic labour and contemporary actions - spirit children, totems; activities affecting the mythic landscape - hunting and sweat; Belyuen economic structures; proportion of bush and store bought food in the diet; use of time; relations with the market economy - local stores, use of money; history of land use and colonial ownership in the Darwin region; contemporary Aboriginal use of the Belyuen region - settlement patterns; process of forming and maintaining cultural identity in contemporary political and economic power structures |
Analysis |
Australian aborigines Culture |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Cox Peninsula (N.T.)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Cox Peninsula (N.T.) -- Economic conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Cox Peninsula (N.T.) -- Ethnic identity.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Cox Peninsula -- Economic conditions
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Cox Peninsula -- Ethnic identity
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Batjamal (Australian people)
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Hunting and gathering societies.
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Land use -- Australia -- Cox Peninsula (N.T.)
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Land use -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Cox Peninsula
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Larrakia (Australian people)
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SUBJECT |
Belyuen (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93052904 -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005736
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LC no. |
93002511 |
ISBN |
0226676730 |
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0226676749 (paperback) |
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