Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in Australia

ISBN-13: 9780367719197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 372 str.

Gillian Cowlishaw

Opis

The powerful story of Australia's cultural and racial frontier, told through the experiences of a group of black and white people from the Northern Territory whose lives are intimately connected.

Spis treści

Maps and Figures

Abbreviations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Fields of Enquiry

Finding a field

Gathering data

Outrageous fortune

Single women's camp

2 Opening Ceremony

Finding the Bulman story

Boundaries

Pastoralists

3 Civilising the Country

Establishing civility

The primitive past and proletarian future

Experts

4 Reforming the People

Labour relations

People in their places

Race relations

5 Racial Intimacies

Bureaucratic savagery

Close relations

Intimates and enemies

6 A New Modernism

Hasluck's final solution

Leaving Mainoru

7 Betrayals

Forgetting the past

Footwalking to Bulman

8 A

O autorze

GILLIAN COWLISHAW began life on a farm. After being a traveller, a mother and a teacher, she became a student, taking her doctorate in anthropology. Her intellectual interests are varied, though most of her research has been concerned with the position of Aborigines in relation to Australian society. She is currently a research scholar at the University of Technology, Sydney.