What Now - Everyday Endurance Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents. There is also extensive treatment of contemporary issues relating to alcohol consumption, violence and the impact of systemic ill health. This richly detailed portrayal provides a nuanced account of everyday endurance and social intensity on Mornington Island.

List of contents

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: A Return

Chapter 1. Locating the State

Chapter 2. Whitefellas and Blackfellas

Chapter 3. Contemporary Aboriginal Family

Chapter 4. Alcohol Management and Violence

Chapter 5. Connections to Land and Sea

Conclusion: Many Returns

Appendix: Residential Survey 2010

References

Index

About the author

Cameo Dalley is Senior Lecturer in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Cameo Dalley
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781789208856
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-885-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Soziologie, Queensland, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Development Studies, Anthropology (General); Sociology