Engaging Indigenous Economy : Debating Diverse Approaches.

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Contributors -- Taking difference seriously: Life, income and work for Jon Altman and friends -- Part 1: The Hybrid Economy: Theory, Practice and Policy -- From Samoa to CAEPR via Mumeka: The hybrid economy comes of age -- From public policy to pure anthropology: A genealogy of the idea of the hybrid economy -- Cultural domains and the theory of customary environmentalism in Indigenous Australia -- What is the policy significance of the hybrid economy? -- If the market is the problem, is the hybrid economy the solution? -- Valuing Aboriginal cultural activity: Beyond markets -- Hybrid economies as life projects? An example from the Torres Strait -- Indigenous country in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria: Territories of difference or indifference? -- Indigenous-owned art centres, tourism and economic benefits: The case of Maṟuku Arts -- Five theses for reinstituting economics: Anthropological lessons from Broome -- Part 2: Critiquing Neoliberalism and the Guardian State -- Neoliberalism and the return of the guardian state: Micromanaging Indigenous peoples in a new chapter of colonial governance -- Media stars and neoliberal news agendas in Indigenous policymaking -- Trapped in the gap -- Neoliberal rhetoric and guardian state outcomes in Aboriginal land reform -- Part 3: Land, Housing and Entrepreneurship: Altman Applied -- Dealings in native title and statutory Aboriginal land rights lands in Australia: What land tenure reform is needed? -- Exploring hybridity in housing: Lessons for appropriate tenure choices and policy -- The political economy of the Aboriginals Benefit Account: Relevance of the 1985 Altman review 30 years on -- The work of rights: The nature of native title labour -- Indigenous small businesses in the Australian Indigenous economy.

Part 4: Personal Reflections -- Reflections of a PhD student -- Reflections of a senior colleague -- Self-reflections: 1977-2014 -- CAEPR Research Monograph Series.

The engagement of Indigenous Australians in economic activity is a matter of long-standing public concern and debate. Contributors include long‑standing colleagues from the disciplines of economics, anthropology and political science, and younger scholars who have been inspired by Jon Altman's approach in developing their own research projects.

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