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Past and Present
The construction of Aboriginality
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Aboriginality, like nationalism, remains a most passionately felt form of identity. This book concerns the ways Australian society and Aboriginal people have maintained and reproduced the notion of Aboriginality. The definition of Aboriginality has changed over the years and at times its form has been ambiguous and subject to dispute – it is a cultural construction, a cultural process which takes place under particular political cultural tradition, and in terms of particular historical experiences.
This book examines Aboriginal identity in various forums – discourse, education, juvenile institutions, geographic locations, in terms of myths and in land rights actions. Authors drawn from a variety of disciplines present a readable collection of works covering the past and the present, and many issues which face Aboriginal people in Australia today.
224 pages; ISBN 9780855755812
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CONTENTS
Contributors vi
1. Jeremy Beckett 1
Introduction
2. Kenneth Maddock 11
Myth, history and a sense of oneself
3. Jane M Jacobs 31
The construction of identity
4. Howard Creamer 45
Aboriginality in New South Wales: beyond the image of cultureless outcasts
5. Barry Morris 63
The politics of identity: from Aborigines to the first Australian
6. Gillian K Cowlishaw 87
The materials for identity construction
7. Deirdre F Jordan 109
Aboriginal identity: uses of the past, problems for the future?
8. Robert Ariss 131
Writing black: the construction of an Aboriginal discourse
9. Basil Sansom 147
The past is a doctrine of person
10. Tim Rowse 161
Middle Australia and the noble savage: a political romance
11. Lenore Coltheart 179
The moment of Aboriginal history
12. Jeremy Beckett 191
The past in the present: the present in the past: constructing a national Aboriginality

