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Past and Present

The construction of Aboriginality

Past and Present
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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.

Aboriginal Studies Press; November 1988
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