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Culture crisis : anthropology and politics in Aboriginal Australia / edited by Jon Altman and Melinda Hickson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians--Politics and government--21st century.
- Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
- Aboriginal Australians--Religion.
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, [Australia] : University of New South Wales Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- In 2007 th eAustralian government declared that remote Aboriginal communities were in crisis and launched the Northern Territory Intervention. This dramatic move occurred against a backdrip of vigorous debate among policy makers, academics, commentators and Aboriginal people about the apparent failure of self-determination. -- back cover.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- A short note on terms used
- Preface
- Introduction: Anthropology and the culture wars
- Melinda Hinkson
- PART I The problem of recognition
- 1 Indigenous politics in late liberalism
- Elizabeth A. Povinelli
- 2 National anthropologies and their problems
- Jeremy Beckett
- 3 Helping anthropologists, still
- Gillian Cowlishaw
- 4 The politics of suffering and the politics of anthropology
- Andrew Lattas and Barry Morris
- PART II THE PROBLEM OF VIOLENCE
- 5 The shock of the new: A postcolonial dilemma for Australianist anthropology
- Marcia Langton
- 6 Child sexual abuse: The Intervention trigger
- Francesca Merlan
- 7 Quarantining violence: How anthropology does it
- Diane Austin-Broos
- PART III counting culture
- 8 Re-figuring 'Indigenous culture'
- Tim Rowse
- 9 Is culture the problem or the solution? Outstation health and the politics of remoteness
- Emma Kowal
- 10 Indigenous education and training: What are we here for?
- Tess Lea
- 11 'Only whitefella take that road': Culture seen through the intervention at Yuendumu
- Yasmine Musharbash
- PART IV Imagining futures
- 12 Media images and the politics of hope
- 13 Other people's lives: Secular assimilation, culture and ungovernability
- Nicolas Peterson
- 14 What future for remote Indigenous Australia? Economic hybridity and the neoliberal turn
- Jon Altman
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781742232263
- 1742232264
- OCLC:
- 781371752
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