Settlement : a history of Australian indigenous housing / edited by Peter Read
- Bib ID:
- 2310722
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2000
- xvi, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0855753633 (paperback)
- Summary:
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A timely book that encompasses the whole history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing from the multiplicity of shelters used in pre-invasion times to the extraordinary cottages built by Victorian missionaries through to the dreaded children's dormitory and the compound with its terrors of disease and overcrowding.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography p. 265-277
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Health
- Land rights
- Habitation - Camps
- Race relations - Racial discrimination - Housing
- Buildings
- Settlement and contacts - Government settlements, reserves
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Housing - Socio-cultural factors
- Housing - Associations and cooperatives
- Housing - Socio-economic factors
- Government policy - Commonwealth
- Melbourne (Vic SJ55-05)
- Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12)
- Kahlin (NT Top End SD52-04)
- Gulf of Carpentaria (SD53, SD54, SE54)
- Goodooga (N NSW SH55-07)
- Lake Wellington / Ramahyuck (E Vic Gippsland SJ55-11)
- Hobart (SE Tas SK55-08)
- Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Moa / Banks Island (Qld TSI SC54-11)
- Redfern (Inner Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Subject:
- Aboriginal Australians -- Housing
- Other authors/contributors:
- Read, Peter, 1945-
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2000
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