Aboriginal Business: Alliances in a Remote Australian Town (School for Advanced Research Global Indigenous Politics) - Softcover

Christen, Kimberly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930618980 ISBN 13: 9781930618985

Verlag: School of American Research Press,U.S., 2009

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Book by Kimberly Christen

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"Christen has drawn upon impressive ethnographic research to craft a moving and important book that captures some of the dilemmas and hopes of the present moment in Aboriginal Australia and that also has the potential to shape broader anthropological questions about the conditions of indigeneity, the ways that collectives forge alliances, the currency of culture, and the contours of economic 'development.'" -- Jessica Cattelino

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From the vantage point of the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek in Australia, this book examines the practical partnerships and awkward alliances that constitute Indigenous modernities. It is an ethnographic snapshot of the Warumungu people as they engage with a range of interlocutors, including transnational railroad companies, national mining groups, international tourists, and regional businesses. Although the Warumungu are the traditional owners of the country in and around present day Tennant Creek, the history of white settlement and Aboriginal displacement has made this town, for better and worse, a site for the ongoing process of interdependent community-making. Anthropologist Kimberly Christen examines both the colonial past and the contemporary practices of alliance-making that set the stage for an alternative future, rerouting the national and global narratives that still seek to confine Indigenous people to the margins. Warumungu "mobs"--variously connected and shifting sets of kin--actively seek to carve out a space within a nation that both condemns and celebrates them.

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• Verlag: School of American Research Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1930618980
• ISBN 13: 9781930618985
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 315