Connection and Disconnection: Encounters between Settlers and Indigenous People in the Northern Territory
Details:
Title
Connection and Disconnection: Encounters between Settlers and Indigenous People in the Northern Territory,
Creator
Parry, Suzanne,
Austin, Tony,
Cameron, J. M. R,
Kimber, Richard,
Wilson, Bill,
Rowse,Tim,
Christie, Michael F,
Riddett, Lyn,
Dewar, Mickey,
Carment, David,
Wells, Julie T,
Ford, Margot,
Editor
Parry, Suzanne,
Austin, Anthony R,
Collection
E-Publications,
PublicationNT,
E-Books,
Date
1998,
Description
'Connection and Disconnection' brings together twelve historians with an interest in encounters between Indigenous people and settlers in the Northern Territory. More than just a narrative of conflict and dispossession, the volume is concerned to reconceptualise the present through the past, rather than just understand the past itself. Chapters deal with a range of encounters which bring new light to bear on the relationships between people on the northern frontier - some of them positive. The volume includes new interpretations of sites of dispossession and war, together with accounts of the sometimes successful struggle by settlers to develop an understanding of Aboriginal people and cultures; well-meaning but frequently misguided attempts to provide for the welfare of Aboriginal people; and usually unsuccessful efforts by authorities to divest the people of their Aboriginality. The book will be of interest to all readers seeking to understand the circumstances that have made reconciliation such a key issue in our national identity as we approach the new millennium.,
Notes
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT),
Table of contents
Introduction. An overview : Two centuries of contact / Suzanne Parry and Tony Austin -- 1. The British meet the Tiwi : Melville island, 1824 / JMR Cameron -- 2. Gillen time: The creation of an era / Richard Kimber -- 3. Police trackers : Myth and reality / Bill Wilson -- 4. Rationing's moral economy / Tim Rowse -- 5. Discourse and disclosure : The Daly River outrage / Michael F. Christie -- 6. A bag of lollies : Children as mediators in the Northern Territory / Lyn Riddett -- 7. The literary construction of 'Half-caste' in the 1930's : Gender, sexuality and race in the Northern Territory / Mickey Dewar -- 8. The dispossession of the Warumungu : Encounters on a North Australian mining frontier / David Carment -- 9. Taming the Yolngu : Methodists, race and schooling in Arnhem land 1916-1939 / Tony Austin -- 10. Mission endeavour : The impact of Christian missions on Aboriginal health / Suzanne Parry -- 11. Welfare colonialists : Context and encounters on government settlements / Julie T. Wells -- 12. The implementation of government funded Aboriginal education in the Northern Territory 1949 to 1955 / Margot Ford.,
Language
English,
Subject
1699 - Other Studies in Human Society,
Northern Australia,
2103 - Historical Studies,
2002 - Cultural Studies,
Indigenous,
Politics & Society,