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First peoples, second chance : public papers from the 29th Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities / edited by Terry Smith ; illustrations by Michael Fitzjames
Bib ID 191221
Format BookBook
Description [Canberra] : Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1999. 
137 p. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN 090989745X  090989745X (Pbk) 
Series Occasional paper (Australian Academy of the Humanities) ; 21. 
Summary

Symposium papers that discuss how the humanities disciplines have contributed towards mutual understanding between black and white Australians and their future role in the reconciliation process.

Full contents Introduction. Conflict and confluence: inter disciplines, between cultures / Terry Smith -- Certainty and uncertainty: Aboriginal studies as the fulcrum of national self-consciousness / Marcia Langton -- Historians and indigenous Australians / Henry Reynolds -- Justifying Aboriginal rights: a philosophical perspective / Paul Patton -- Ancestral songs: understandings of Aboriginal song since 1788 / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Being and nothing: figuring Aboriginality in Australian art history / Ian McLean -- Poem: comes as you are / Michelle Blanchard. 
Notes

Cover title: First peoples, second chance : the humanities and Aboriginal Australia

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects Humanities - Addresses, essays, lectures.  |  Humanities - Australia - Congresses.  |  Aboriginal Australians - Study and teaching - Australia.
Other Authors Smith, Terry (Terence Edwin), 1944-  |  Australian Academy of the Humanities  |  Australian Academy of the Humanities. Symposium 1998 : Sydney, N.S.W.)
Also Titled First peoples, second chance : the humanities and Aborginal Australia

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