| ISBN |
9780812250008 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Author |
Merlan, Francesca (author.) |
| Title |
Dynamics of difference in Australia : indigenous past and present in a settler country / Francesca Merlan. |
| Edition |
1st edition. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] |
| ©2018. |
| Description |
xvi, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1 Nobodies and Relatives: Nonrecognition and Identification in Social Process -- ch. 2 Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters -- ch. 3 Mediations -- ch. 4 Treachery and Boundary Demarcation -- ch. 5 Cruelty and a Different Recognition -- ch. 6 Race, Recognition, State, and Society -- ch. 7 The Postcolony: Sacred Sites and Saddles -- ch. 8 Recognition: A Space of Difference? |
| Summary |
This book examines relations between indigenous and nonindigenous people from the events of early exploration and colonial endeavors to the present day. From face-to-face interactions to national and geopolitical affairs, the book illuminates the dimensions of difference that are revealed by these encounters: what indigenous and nonindigenous people pay attention to, what they value, what preconceived notions each possesses, and what their responses are to the Other. The author highlights the asymmetries in the exchanges between the settler majority and the indigenous minority, looking at everything from forms of violence and material transactions, to indigenous involvement in resource development, to governmental intervention in indigenous affairs. |
| Subjects |
Aboriginal Australians -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History |
| Ethnology -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians |
| Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of |
| Ethnology |
| Race relations |
| Jawoyn (Australian people) |
| Jawoyn people (N57) (NT SD53-09) |
| Jawoyn language N57 |
| Yolngu people (N230) (NT SD53) |
| Yolngu (Australian people) |
| Mangarrayi language N78 |
| Dalabon / Dangbon people (N60) (NT SD53-02) |
| Australia -- Race relations |
| Call number |
2020.113 |
