Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas: A study of racial power and intimacy in AustraliaThis lively book brings the reader close to the people from a remote cattle station in far north Australia, where black and white peoples' lives have been intertwined over the span of 80 years. Tracing the humorous, savage and ordinary ways in which race structured intimate and everyday relationships across a great divide, Gillian Cowlishaw makes startling and original arguments about race relations. |
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... Aborigines have seldom been able to present the living drama of Aboriginal communities cleaving to their own values, faced with a society which demanded an instrumental logic to make the world make sense. There has been much effort put ...
... Aborigines, patrol officers and more recently state officials whose presence has increased over the decades. Today the main focus of race relations is at the point of intersection between Aboriginal communities and a massive ...
... Aboriginal responses to their contemporary experience of whites were recorded, although the apparently common view among Aborigines that white people were ghosts of their ancestors was alluded to in many a publication. This comforting ...
... Aboriginal questions in every gesture of his white body. Then there is the issue of language status. If I write what Nelly or Alma says as 'Mifella bin proper myall one. Mifella bin go longa station now', such language might be read as ...
... Aboriginal people do not choose their anthropologist and the Rembarrnga people did not choose me. It was thus partly by accident that I came to experience life at Bulman in the Northern Territory during my first field-work trip in 1975 ...
Contents
Opening the Country | |
Civilising the Country | |
Reforming the People | |
Racial Intimacies | |
A New Modernism | |
Betrayals | |
A Viable Enterprise | |
Enjoying Democracy | |
Palimpsest Processes | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Rednecks, Eggheads, and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in ... Gillian Cowlishaw No preview available - 1999 |
Rednecks, Eggheads, and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in ... Gillian Cowlishaw No preview available - 1999 |