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Encounters with indigeneity : writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

By Jeremy Beckett

Book information

Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781922059772, 1922059773
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4831212 bytes)
Pages
246\273
Time added
2017-01-08 04:05:14
Aboriginal Australians -- History;Aboriginal Austretc -- Australia;Indigenous peoples -- Land tenureetc;Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and custetc;Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and cuslaws

Description

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. 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. In the process he changed our understandings of those people and highlighted the issues they confronted. He has enriched our appreciation of the diversity of Indigenous identities and experiences. He was an expert witness leading up to the Mabo decision, and has brought Australian Indigenous studies into a world framework. His work continues to be influential to many: those who revisit his ideas here; and those who are newer to his work.  Read more...

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