| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages) : chiefly colour illustrations, map, portraits |
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text file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern Territory. Some stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction of what has happened there. Like all places it has accrued people and stories, in multiple layers, over time. Listening to Tjuki Tjukanku Pumpjack and Sandra Armstrong, two Aṉangu with deep and abiding connections to Angas Downs, a very different kind of place emerges from that conjured in myths and histories of pioneers and pastoralists that have shaped understandings of the past in Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory. Unmaking Angas Downs traces a history of colonisation in Central Australia by tracking the rise and demise of a rural enterprise across half a century, as well as the complex and creative practices that transformed a cattle station into Country. It grapples with the question of how people experience profound dislocation and come to make a place for themselves in the wake of rupture. Angas Downs emerges as a place of dynamic interaction and social life - not only lived in, but also made by Aṉangu. |
| Contents |
Author's notes -- Prologue: Walara -- Introduction: Encounters in place -- Part 1 Exodus? / 1 Whitefella food -- 2 The white experts -- 3 Walytja -- Part 2 Walara / 4 Founding moments -- 5 Founding entanglements -- 6 Found in translation -- Part 3 Bloodwood Bore / 7 Ration times -- 8 The wind of change -- 9 A fortuitous location -- 10 Emerging economies and making place -- Part 4 Itineraries / 11 'We were always travelling' -- 12 The itinerants -- 13 The walkabout leaders -- Part 5 Unmaking Angas Downs / 14 Return -- 15 'There's nothing there now, but it's still our place' -- Epilogue: Palipmsest -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Access |
National edeposit: Available onsite until 08 September 2023 at national, state and territory libraries Online access with authorization. AU-CaNED |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians. |
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Australia. |
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Northern Territory. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Ranches -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Ranches. |
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HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand. |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. |
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Australia -- Central Australia. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Palmer, Shannyn Unmaking Angas Downs Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing,c2022 9780522878387 |
| ISBN |
9780522878394 (electronic book) |
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0522878393 (electronic book) |
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9780522878387 (paperback) |
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