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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/contributors Smith, Terry (Terence Edwin), 1944-  |  Australian Academy of the Humanities  |  Australian Academy of the Humanities. Symposium 1998 : Sydney, N.S.W.)
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First peoples, second chance : the humanities and Aborginal Australia

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