A01=Diane J. Austin-Broos
aboriginal
anthropological
anthropology
aranda
archival research
arrarnta
arrernte
arunta
assimilation
australian
Author_Diane J. Austin-Broos
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Category=JHM
central australia
community
cultural studies
culture
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ethnography
hermannsburg region
hunter-gatherers
identity
imagination
imagine
indigenous peoples
invasion
marginalization
marginalized populations
missions
mparntwe
native population
northern territory
race relations
racism
sociocultural changes
violence
violent
Product details
- ISBN 9780226032641
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2009
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study to address the Arrernte's contemporary situation, "Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past" also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred years.Employing ethnographic and archival research, Diane Austin-Broos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their present, marginalized position in the modern Australian economy. While she concludes that these wrenching structural shifts led to the violence that now marks Arrernte communities, she also brings to light the powerful acts of imagination that have sustained a continuing sense of Arrernte identity.
Diane Austin-Broos is professor of anthropology at the University of Sydney and the author of Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Order, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
