Encounters with Indigeneity : Writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
Intro -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- Foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 George Dutton's Country: Portrait of an Aboriginal Drover -- Chapter 2 Walter Newton's History of the World - or Australia -- Chapter 3 Aboriginal Histories, Aboriginal Myths: An Introduction -- Chapter 4 Autobiography and Testimonial Discourse in Myles Lalor's 'Oral History' -- Chapter 5 The Torres Strait Islanders and the Pearling Industry: A Case of Internal Colonialism -- Chapter 6 Rivalry, Competition and Conflict Among Christian Melanesians -- Chapter 7 Mission, Church and Sect: Three Types of Religious Commitment in the Torres Strait Islands -- Chapter 8 'Knowing How to Talk to White People': Torres Strait Islanders and the Politics of Represe -- Chapter 9 The Murray Island Land Case -- Chapter 10 Aboriginality, Citizenship and Nation-State -- Chapter 11 Contested Images: Perspectives on the Indigenous Terrain in the Late Twentieth Century -- Index.
For four decades Jeremy Beckett has shone a light on previously marginalised fields of life. While the many went in search of 'traditional culture', Beckett was fascinated to learn how people who often lacked wider recognition of their Aboriginality went about their lives.