Performing Place, Practising Memories - Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State

Informationen zum Autor Rosita Henry is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Fellow of the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She is coeditor of The Challenge of Indigenous Peoples: Spectacle or Politics? (2011) and author of numerous articles on the political anthropology of place and performance. Klappentext During the 1970s a wave of 'counter-culture' people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects. Zusammenfassung During the 1970s a wave of "counter-culture" people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population! concentrating on a number of linked social dramas... Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents List of Figures and Maps Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introducing Place: Fieldwork and Framework Chapter 2. Colonising Place: The Mutilation of Memory Chapter 3. Countering Place: Hippies, Hairies and 'Enacted Utopia' Chapter 4. Performing Place: Amphitheater Dramas Chapter 5. Commodifying Place: The Metamorphosis of the Markets Chapter 6. Planning Place: Main Street Blues Chapter 7. Dancing Place: Cultural Renaissance and Tjapukai Theatre Chapter 8. Protesting Place: Environmentalists, Aborigines and the Skyrail Chapter 9. Creating Place: The Production of a Space for Difference References Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Rosita Henry, Henry Rosita
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9780857455086
• ISBN: 978-0-85745-508-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Space and Place
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Alternative lifestyles, Social and cultural anthropology, Social groups: alternative lifestyles, Relating to First Nations peoples in Australia, Performance Studies; Anthropology (General)