Encounters with indigeneity : writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples / Jeremy Beckett
- Bib ID:
- 6569685
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beckett, Jeremy, 1931-2022, author
- Description:
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- Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014
- ©2014
- xxv, 246 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922059772 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In this valuable collection renowned Australian scholar, Professor Jeremy Beckett, draws together some of his best writing from the 1970s to the present. The collection distils 50 years of history, blending cultural analysis with narrative in two regions of Australia. Dr Melinda Hinkson, ANU.
In this valuable collection renowned Australian scholar, Professor Jeremy Beckett, draws together some of his best writing from the 1970s to the present. The collection distils 50 years of history, blending cultural analysis with narrative in two regions of Australia. One of the regions covered, the Torres Strait, was catapulted from obscurity to the centre of Australian attention by the Mabo case. Beckett remains one of the country's most authoritative expert witnesses and is still consulted for his expertise. As a series of discrete studies, the material of the book evokes Indigenous agency on a number of fronts: cultural, political, economic, religious. The breadth of content reflects the changing conditions in which Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders have been living and the changing perspectives of anthropologists, and the wider scholarly world more generally.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Torres Strait Islanders -- History
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Social conditions
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Australia
- Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- Australia
- History - Cultural
- Social identity - Torres Strait Islander identity
- Race relations - Representation - History
- History - Oral history
- Race relations - Representation - Literature
- Economic sectors - Pearling
- Attitudes - Indigenous perspectives
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Native title - Cases - Mabo
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Mer / Murray Island (Qld TSI SC55-05)
- Torres Strait Islands (Qld TSI SC54, SC55-05)
- Australia
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, issuing body
- Copyright:
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- Until 2064 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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