| Description |
viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Communication and culture series |
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Communication and culture series.
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| Summary |
Examines the Aboriginal and European construction of meaning through modes of discourse and their textual forms; discourse analysis - anthropological (Berndt), romantic (Bates) and racist (Durack); physicality of text - bodily inscription, narrative (Paddy Roe), performance and memory; problem of authentic history - the story of Pigeon; structuralist and post-structuralist analysis of narrative - custodianship, history, Dreaming, speaking text; Aboriginal literature as political expression - criticism of repression/liberation dualism (Sally Morgan); legal and Aboriginal English; work of Rover Thomas, Sally Morgan and Jimmy Pike and versions of landscape; concepts of pan-Aboriginality (Yothu Yindi) and marginality in the post-modern |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians Cultural assimilation |
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Aboriginal Australians Social conditions |
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Communication and culture Australia |
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Aboriginal Australians - Cultural assimilation |
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Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions |
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Aboriginal culture |
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Acculturation |
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Assimilation (Sociology) - Australia |
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Communication |
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Communication and culture - Australia |
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History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography (pages 207-211) |
| Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Communication and culture -- Australia.
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Communication and culure -- Australia
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| LC no. |
93148647 |
| ISBN |
0868401013 |
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