Overview

This book offers a ground-breaking critique of the concept of 'tradition' as it has been applied in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context. The authors offer a refreshing new style of analysis. In writing that is rich in detail, strong in analysis and informed by their research experience, they argue for a deeper appreciation of the creativity inherent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social life, and the way that knowledge is constructed and deployed in complex intercultural contexts in contemporary Australia. Each chapter draws on detailed local inter-cultural information which include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land and sea ownership and management, native title processes, service delivery arrangements for health and outstation management, and representations in art, song and broadcasting. In each arena there are multiple engagements with broad global processes. The advent of Native Title legislation has led Indigenous communities across the country being required to demonstrate their 'traditional' connections to country. For many, their experiences of these processes are increasingly at odds with the complex inter-cultural realities of their lives. They feel the constraining effect of outmoded frameworks of 'tradition' in legislation and policy where social and cultural innovation are characterised as inauthentic. The book draws together key scholars in Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander social research. The authors provide productive ways of characterising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social life and develop a multi-disciplinary theoretical critique to the concept of tradition.

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Author:   Luke Taylor ,  Graham Henderson ,  Graeme Ward ,  Richard Davis
Publisher:   Aboriginal Studies Press
Imprint:   Aboriginal Studies Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780855754846

ISBN 10:   0855754842
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 April 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Unsettled business: Acrylic painting, tradition, and Indigenous being; Development options on Aboriginal land: Sustainable Indigenous hybrid economies in the twenty-first century; Identity and economy in Aboriginal pastoralism; Culture and commerce: The use of fishing traditions to prove native tide; A sea has many faces: Multiple and contested continuities in Yolngu coastal waters; 'Blodiversity is a whitefella word': Changing relationships between Aborigines and the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service; Dependency, technology and governance; Rhetoric to reality in sustainability: Meeting the challenges in indigenous cattle station communities; Making use of medics: Overcoming cultural constraints in alcohol interventions; The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet: Knowledge transfer to assist decision making in Indigenous health; New media projects at Yuendumu: Towards a history and analysis of intercultural engagement; Recruiting an Aboriginal voice: The state development of Aboriginal broadcasting; Manifestations of the mimih; Knowing tradition, dealing with history? On concepts, strategies and practices; Gurindji mode of historical practice; Culture, change and the ambiguous resonance of tradition in Central Cape York Peninsula; Publications from Conference presentations; Index.

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