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Fantastic Dreaming
- The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
Engelsk Paperback
Fantastic Dreaming
- The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
Engelsk Paperback

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Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals that the Moravian missionaries'' attempts to ''civilize'' the Wergaia-speaking people of northwestern Victoria centered on spatial practices, housing, and the consumption of material goods. After the mission closed in 1904, white observers saw the camp settlements that formed nearby as evidence of Aboriginal incapacity and immorality, rather than as symptoms of exclusion and poverty. Conceptions of transformation as acculturation survived in assimilation policies that envisioned Aboriginal people becoming the same as whites through living in European housing. These ideas persist in archaeological analysis that insists on Aboriginality as otherness and difference, and equates objects with identity. However Wergaia tradition was place-based, and, often invisibly, Indigenous people maintained traditional relationships to kin and country, resisting white authority through strategies of evasion and mobility. This study examines the complex role of material culture and spatial politics in shaping colonial identities and offers a critique of essentialism in archaeological interpretation.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
330
ISBN-13:
9780759111059
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0759111057
Udg. Dato:
16 nov 2009
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
231mm
Forlag:
AltaMira Press
Oplagsdato:
16 nov 2009
Forfatter(e):
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