The opening years of the 21st century have seen profound shifts in Australian Indigenous affairs. The essays in this collection bring a fresh and challenging approach to the study of Australia's relationship with Indigenous otherness. The authors examine diverse aspects of contemporary Australian race relations, from the Indigenous music industry, to Toyotas in remote communities, to the repatriation of sacred objects, to the reception of the New History in the bush. These challenging and controversial contributions to current debates show how anthropology is ideally positioned to bring new insights to Indigenous studies. Contributors include Andrew Lattas, Elizabeth Povinelli, Gillian Cowlishaw, Franca Tamasari, Tim Rowse and David Turnbull. [ Aware of the usual 'moves' anthropologists make, this collection begins organically from the thinking and doing that goes on in real situations, and launches a fresh new approach within indigenous domains. Professor Stephen Muecke, University of Technology, Sydney] ['A challenging collection of ethnographies linked by a critical view of current Indigenous studies which leads us to question the future of anthropology in relation to the future existence of Indigenous societies.' Professor Barbara Glowczewski-Barker, College de France and James Cook University] ['This book... is well worth the read. However, there is more work to be done because white possession remains under-theorised as the most powerful aspect of the relationality that the contributors to this volume have claimed to address.' Profe ss or A ileen M or eton- Robin son , Que ensland Un iver sity of T ech nol ogy, fr om her Aft er word .] Dr Tess Lea is Dir ector of the Sc hool for Social and Policy Re search at Charles Darwin University. Dr Emma Kowal is completing a PhD in the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. Professor Gillian Cowlishaw is an ARC Professorial Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney.,
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Table of contents
Forword / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Introduction: Double binds / Gillian Cowlishaw, Emma Kowal and Tess Lea -- Ch. 1. 'Personal acquaintance': essential individuality and the possibilities of encounters / Franca Tamisari -- Ch. 2. Cars corporations, ceremonies and cash: hidden co-dependence in Australia's north / Tess Lea -- Ch. 3. White redemption rituals: reflections on the repatriation of Aboriginal secret-sacred objects / Philip Batty -- Ch. 4. Moving towards the mean: dilemmas of assimilation and improvement / Emma Kowal -- Ch. 5. 'Community benefit packages': development's encounter with pluralism in the case of the mining industry / Sarah Holcombe -- Ch. 6. Further up the road: community trucks and the moving settlement / Tony Redmond Ch. 7. Improving indigenous music makers / Ase Ottosson -- Ch. 8. Collateral damage in the history wars / Gillian Cowlishaw -- Ch. 9. Finding Bwudjut: common land, private profit, divergent objects / Elizabeth Povinelli -- Ch. 10. The politics of being pratical : Howard's fourth term challenge / Tim Rowse -- Ch. 11. Movement, boundaries, rationality and the State: the Ngaanyatjarra Land Claim, the Tordesillas Line and the West Australian Border / David Turnbull -- Ch. 12. Reviewing the reviews: intellectual fields, the liberal state and the problem of alterity / Andrew Lattas -- Afterword: How White possession moves: after the word / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- Contributors -- Index,