White Flour, White Power: From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia

ISBN-13: 9780521624572 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 272 str.

Tim Rowse (University of Sydney)

Opis

This book focuses on the colonial practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people, arguing 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 postwar program of "assimilation." Combining history and anthropology in a cultural study of rationing, this book develops a new narrative of the colonization of Central Australia.

Recenzje

' … a good, well-researched and cogently argued study of Aboriginal policy in central Australia … It sparkles with intelligent insights.' Henry Reynolds, Australian Journal of Political Science

Spis treści

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.