Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Bøger
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
Spil og hobby
Hjem
Kategorier
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
FAQ
Konto
Kontakt
Kurv
  1. Bog
  2. Historie
  3. Australasiatisk historie og Stillehavshistorie

Fantastic Dreaming

- The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
Af: Jane Lydon Engelsk Paperback

Fantastic Dreaming

- The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
Af: Jane Lydon Engelsk Paperback
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals that the Moravian missionaries'' attempts to ''civilize'' the Wergaia-speaking people of northwestern Victoria centered on spatial practices, housing, and the consumption of material goods. After the mission closed in 1904, white observers saw the camp settlements that formed nearby as evidence of Aboriginal incapacity and immorality, rather than as symptoms of exclusion and poverty. Conceptions of transformation as acculturation survived in assimilation policies that envisioned Aboriginal people becoming the same as whites through living in European housing. These ideas persist in archaeological analysis that insists on Aboriginality as otherness and difference, and equates objects with identity. However Wergaia tradition was place-based, and, often invisibly, Indigenous people maintained traditional relationships to kin and country, resisting white authority through strategies of evasion and mobility. This study examines the complex role of material culture and spatial politics in shaping colonial identities and offers a critique of essentialism in archaeological interpretation.
Vis mere
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
Normalpris
kr 488
Fragt: 39 kr
6 - 8 hverdage
20 kr
Pakkegebyr
God 4 anmeldelser på
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals that the Moravian missionaries'' attempts to ''civilize'' the Wergaia-speaking people of northwestern Victoria centered on spatial practices, housing, and the consumption of material goods. After the mission closed in 1904, white observers saw the camp settlements that formed nearby as evidence of Aboriginal incapacity and immorality, rather than as symptoms of exclusion and poverty. Conceptions of transformation as acculturation survived in assimilation policies that envisioned Aboriginal people becoming the same as whites through living in European housing. These ideas persist in archaeological analysis that insists on Aboriginality as otherness and difference, and equates objects with identity. However Wergaia tradition was place-based, and, often invisibly, Indigenous people maintained traditional relationships to kin and country, resisting white authority through strategies of evasion and mobility. This study examines the complex role of material culture and spatial politics in shaping colonial identities and offers a critique of essentialism in archaeological interpretation.
Vis mere
Se mere i:
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 330
ISBN-13: 9780759111059
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0759111057
Kategori: Australasiatisk historie og Stillehavshistorie
Udg. Dato: 16 nov 2009
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 231mm
Forlag: AltaMira Press
Oplagsdato: 16 nov 2009
Forfatter(e): Jane Lydon
Forfatter(e) Jane Lydon

Kategori Australasiatisk historie og Stillehavshistorie

ISBN-13 9780759111059

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 330

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 154mm

Højde 231mm

Udg. Dato 16 nov 2009

Oplagsdato 16 nov 2009

Forlag AltaMira Press

Vi anbefaler også
Rosamunde Pilcher Vejen hjem
Vejen hjem
Rosamunde Pilcher
66 kr
Kategori sammenhænge