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Title Experiments in self-determination : histories of the outstation movement in Australia / edited by Nicolas Peterson and Fred Myers
Published Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps
Series Monographs in anthropology series
Monographs in anthropology series.
Contents 1. The origins and history of outstations as Aboriginal life projects / Fred Myers and Nicolas Peterson -- 2. From Coombes to Coombs : reflections on the Pitjantjatjara outstation movement / Bill Edwards -- 3. Returning to country : the Docker River project / Jeremy Long -- 4. 'Shifting' : the Western Arrernte's outstation movement / Diane Austin-Broos -- 5. History, memory and the politics of self-determination at an early outstation / Fred Myers -- 6. The interwoven histories of Mount Liebig and Papunya-Luritja / Sarah Holcombe -- 7. Out of sight, out of mind, but making the best of it : how outstations have worked in the Ngaanyatjarra lands / David Brooks and Vikki Plant -- 8. Outstations through art : acrylic painting, self determination and the history of the homelands movement in the Pintupi-Ngaanyatjarra lands / Peter Thorley -- 9. What was Dr Coombs thinking? Nyirrpi, policy and the future / Nicholas Peterson -- 10. Homelands as outstations of public policy / Kingsley Palmer -- 11. Challenging simplistic notions of outstations as manifestations of Aboriginal self-determination : Wik strategic engagement and disengagement over the past four decades / David F Martin and Bruce F Martin -- 12. Peret : a Cape York Peninsula outstation, 1976-1978 / Peter Sutton -- 13. People and policy in the development and destruction of Yagga Yagga outstation, Western Australia / Scott Cane -- 14. Imagining Mumeka : bureaucratic and Kuninjku perspectives / Jon Altman -- 15. Thwarted aspirations : the political economy of a Yolngu outstation, 1972 to the present / Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy -- 16. A history of Donydji outstation, north-east Arnhem Land / Neville White
Summary The authors focus is on the outstation movement of the 1970's, that drive by remote area Aboriginal groups in the centre and the north to escape from regimented and overcrowded community settlements, and consolidate a new life-path in the bush. Most of the outstations lie in the Northern Territory
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Community life.
Community organization.
Community organization -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Communities.
community organizations.
Anthropology.
Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
Australasia.
Australia.
Ethnic studies.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
Indigenous peoples.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Social and cultural history.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
Communities
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Community life
Community organization
Northern Territory
Form Electronic book
Author Peterson, Nicolas, editor.
Myers, Fred R., 1948- editor.
LC no. 2018377874
ISBN 9781925022902
1925022900