Dynamics of Difference in Australia : Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country / Francesca Merlan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merlan, Francesca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--History.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--History.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.

Ethnology--Australia.

Ethnology.

Australia--Race relations.

Australia.

Australia--History.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Francesca Merlan examines the dynamics of difference that have existed between the settler majority and Indigenous minority of Australia, from the events of early exploration to the present, shedding light on their unequal and changing relations over time.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface: Region, Position, and Ethics of Representation; Introduction: Persistent Difference; Chapter 1. Nobodies and Relatives: Nonrecognition and Identification in Social Process; Chapter 2. Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters; Chapter 3. Mediations; Chapter 4. Treachery and Boundary Demarcation; Chapter 5. Cruelty and a Different Recognition; Chapter 6. Race, Recognition, State, and Society; Chapter 7. The Postcolony: Sacred Sites and Saddles; Chapter 8. Recognition: A Space of Difference?; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L.

MN; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

ISBN:

9780812294859

0812294858

OCLC:

1031090527