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Growing Up in Central Australia: New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence

By Ute Eickelkamp

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2011
ISBN
0857450824, 9780857450821
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2223270 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
310\311
Time added
2016-11-26 09:42:51
Music & Photography;Biographies;Education & RefereTeen & Young Adult;Art

Description

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities – roughly 1,200 across the continent – the volume includes case studies of language and family life in small country towns and urban contexts. These studies expertly show that forms of consciousness have changed enormously over the last hundred years for Indigenous societies more so than for the rest of Australia, yet equally notable are the continuities across generations.

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