Labors lot : the power, history, and culture of Aboriginal action / Elizabeth A. Povinelli
- Bib ID:
- 114627
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Povinelli, Elizabeth A., 1962-
- Online Version:
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- Description:
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- Chicago:University of Chicago Press , 1993, 1993
- xii, 331 p.; maps.
- Summary:
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Analysis of the role of labour in every day activities and its influence on the construction of identity among the Belyuen Aborigines, Cox Peninsula, NT; Western definitions of labour; Aboriginal relationship to land and land ownership; concepts of knowledge and the role of story; negotiation of the land claim process - Kenbi land Claim; representation of pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial Aboriginality in the Darwin region - Laragiya and Wagaitj; Aboriginal women's use and narratives of the past; interpretation of mythic labour and contemporary actions - spirit children, totems; activities affecting the mythic landscape - hunting and sweat; Belyuen economic structures; proportion of bush and store bought food in the diet; use of time; relations with the market economy - local stores, use of money; history of land use and colonial ownership in the Darwin region; contemporary Aboriginal use of the Belyuen region - settlement patterns; process of forming and maintaining cultural identity in contemporary political and economic power structures.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: List of Maps and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part One - Setting Up Labor-Action: Legitimate Law, Identity, History
- 1. Legal Entanglements
- Aboriginal Action and Identity
- 2. Positioning Aborigines
- Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Aboriginal Pasts
- Part Two - Assessing Labor-Action: Dreaming, Development, Knowledge/Power
- 3. Labor's Lot
- The Construction of Human Bodies and the Countryside
- 4. "Today We Struggle"
- Contemporary Hunting, Fishing, and Collecting and the Market
- 5. "Being There"
- Dreaming and Development as Political Frames for Land Use
- 6. The Assessment of Cultural Identity and Political-Economic Practice
- A Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliography; p. 297-319; Includes tables and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
- Subject:
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- Social identity
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Race relations - Representation
- Anthropology - Theory and criticism
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Subsistence and economy
- Food - Sociocultural aspects
- Hunting
- Stories and motifs
- Religion - Totemism
- Social organisation
- Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings
- Batjamal / Wogait people (N6) (NT SD52-07)
- Larrakia / Laragiya / Gulumirrgin people (N21) (NT SD52-04)
- Kenbi / Cox Peninsula (NT Top End SD52-04)
- Belyuen / Delissaville (Cox Peninsula NT Top End SD52-04)
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- Publication date:
- 1993
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