Domesticating Resistance - The Dhan-Gadi Aborigines and the Australian State

In this fascinating study of the Dhan-Gadi Aboriginal people of New South Wales, Australia, the author combines the skills of a social historian with the detailed observation of a social anthropologist. In so doing he brings alive the contours of crude racism, as well as the more subtle expressions of paternalism, bureaucratic social control and educational and economic marginalization.

List of contents

List of Tables, Maps and Diagrams, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction, 1. Colonial Domination as a Process of Marginalisation, 2. The Economic Incorporation of the Dhan-Gadi, 3. Encapsulation, Involution and the Reconstitution of Social Life, 4. Creative Bricolage and Cultural Domination, 5. The Evolution of State Control (1880-1940): Segregated Dirt or Assimilation?, 6. The New Order: The Aborigines' Welfare Board, 7. The Deregulation of a Colonial Being: the Aboriginal as Universal Being, 8. Racism as Egalitarianism: Changes in Racial Discourse, 9. The Politics of Identity: from Equal Rights to Land Rights, Appendices, References, Index

About the author

Barry Morris

Summary

In this fascinating study of the Dhan-Gadi Aboriginal people of New South Wales, Australia, the author combines the skills of a social historian with the detailed observation of a social anthropologist. In so doing he brings alive the contours of crude racism, as well as the more subtle expressions of paternalism, bureaucratic social control and educational and economic marginalization.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Morris
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367716875
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71687-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Explorations in Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Australia, 20th Century, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history