The origins and history of outstations as Aboriginal Life projects

dc.contributor.authorMyers, Fred
dc.contributor.authorPeterson, Nicolas
dc.contributor.editorNicolas Peterson
dc.contributor.editorFred Myers
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-30T01:19:06Z
dc.date.available2018-11-30T01:19:06Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2020-12-27T07:29:16Z
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, there has been an acrimonious debate about the existence and significance of outstations or �homeland communities� as they are sometimes called. These debates have cast various interpretations on the motivations for the establishment and support of these small and remote Indigenous residential formations. For example, outstations have sometimes been characterised by traditionalists as a retreat from modernisation, and from time to time they have been characterised in very negative terms. Indeed, one government minister called them �cultural museums� (Eastley 2005; see Kowal 2010: 182). We hope to show, however, that such views give little hearing for an Aboriginal perspective, and trivialise complex policy issues and deeply held views. In these debates, we fear, something of the lived experiences, motivations and histories of existing communities is missing. For this reason, we invited a number of anthropological witnesses to the early period in which outstations gained a purchase in remote Australia to provide accounts of what these communities were like, and what their residents� aspirations and experiences were.
dc.format.extent22 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-925022896en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/153932
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherANU Press
dc.relation.ispartofExperiments in Self-Determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia
dc.relation.isversionof1st Editionen_AU
dc.rightsAuthor/s retain copyright
dc.sourceExperiments in Self-Determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia
dc.titleThe origins and history of outstations as Aboriginal Life projects
dc.typeBook chapter
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access via publisher websiteen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage22en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationCanberra, ACT, Australiaen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMyers, Fred, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationPeterson, Nicolas, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu4687087@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidMyers, Fred, u4687087en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidPeterson, Nicolas, u7100492en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.description.refereedYesen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropologyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970116 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4070761xPUB144en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.22459/ESD.01.2016.01en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4070761en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://press.anu.edu.au/en_AU
local.type.statusMetadata onlyen_AU

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