Machine derived contents note: A theatre of stages -- Part I: 1. Rationing the inexplicable -- 2. Rationed actors -- Part II: 3. Rural central Australia, 1914-40 -- 4. Town, cash and supervision -- 5. 'A Christian cannot be a parasite' -- 6. The World War in town and hinterland -- Conclusion: Indigenous welfare at mid-century -- Part III: 7. 'Assimilation -- 8. The crisis of managed consumption -- 9. Settlements and families -- 10. Alice Springs and its town camps -- Continuities
Summary
"The colonial practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people has been neglected in the study of Australian frontiers. This book argues that much of the colonial experience in Central Australia can be understood by seeing rationing as a fundamental, though flexible, instrument of colonial government. Rationing was the material basis for a variety of colonial ventures: scientific, evangelical, pastoral and the post-war program of 'assimilation'. Combining history and anthropology in a cultural study of rationing, this book develops a new narrative of the colonisation of Central Australia."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis
Aborigines
Assimilation
Attitudes
Central Australia
Federal issue
History
Rationing
Self determination
Social conditions
Social security payments
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography : pages 241-247
Notes
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library