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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... Rembarrnga community. For example, Cowlishaw quotes a man, Ronnie Martin, speaking about Mainoru station, the pastoral lease (ranching area) around which she centered much of her historical analysis: 'Blackfella started that place ...
... Rembarrnga, new work relationships were simultaneously endured and resisted, even at times appreciated. Meanwhile ... Rembarrnga life through the very same processes by which the Rembarrnga–redneck economic nexus was dissolved. In the ...
... Rembarrnga life, practice, belief, religion or any other dimension of that which conventional ethnography might name 'Rembarrnga culture'.
... Rembarrnga culture'. I would not presume to dispute Cowlishaw's claim that this book leaves an enormous amount unsaid about Rembarrnga people. Yet to my mind, Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas is in fact an ethnography, but one of a ...
... Rembarrnga reflections on their past to further this interpretation. But I should add that anthropologists were more than fusty scholars participating in a version of Said's Orientalism (1985) by constructing an exotic and primitive ...
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 |