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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
