Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
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- References
- 1. François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance
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- References
- 2. Moving Blackwards: Black Power and the Aboriginal Embassy
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- Black Power
- The tents
- Black pride
- The tents
- Black independence
- The tents
- References
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- Primary documents
- Newspapers and media sources
- Secondary sources
- 3. Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations
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- Feudal transgression: a more elucidatory means of classifying cattle stations
- Intersection between feudal land laws and power
- Pastoralists’ governance on the frontier
- Normalised pastoralists’ jurisdiction
- Northern pastoral lords over their feudal estate and workers
- The strength of pastoralists’ jurisdiction in the face of government legislation
- Non-payment of wages as a source of pastoralists’ authority
- Aboriginal transgression
- Conclusion: limits of Aboriginal transgression and ways forward
- References
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- Primary sources
- Secondary Sources
- 4. Dreaming the circle: indigeneity and the longing for belonging in White Australia
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- Acknowledgements
- References
- 5. Resisting the captured image: how Gwoja Tjungurrayi, ‘One Pound Jimmy’, escaped the
‘Stone Age’
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- A cultural courtesy
- A snapshot
- Introduction
- The birth of Central Australian tourism
- The language of tourism
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- The ‘Imperial’ tourist gaze
- The ‘pioneer’ tourist gaze
- The ‘anthropological’ tourist gaze
- Gwoja Tjungurrayi: the man behind the image
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- Displacement and massacre
- Survival and adjustment
- Transmission of knowledge to the next generation
- Unwanted celebrity?
- Holmes: discoverer or myth-maker?
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- The meeting
- The name
- Collaboration and escape
- Conclusion
- A postscript
- References
- 6. On the romances of marriage, love and solitude
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- Romance and rebellion
- Fiction and truth in Cape York Peninsula romances
- Singing songs of love
- Tradition and the separation of men and women
- The permission of family and church, or marriage as freedom
- Making a song and dance about it
- Relationships and community
- Illicit love and illegal relationships
- Censorship and homosexuality
- Reluctance to wed: the love of solitude and independence
- End note
- Acknowledgements
- References
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- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- 7. ‘Hanging no good for blackfellow’: looking into the life of Musquito
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- References
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- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- 8. Leadership: the quandary of Aboriginal societies in crises, 1788 – 1830, and 1966
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- Introduction
- The construction of knowledge in the late eighteenth century
- Aboriginal society pre-contact
- Leadership
- Aboriginal leaders
- Bungaree, chief of the Sydney Blacks
- Windradyne of the Wiradjuri
- Irish-Aboriginal oral history
- Contemporary leadership
- Conclusion
- References
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- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- 9. Sedentary topography
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- References
- 10. Sinful enough for Jesus: guilt and Christianisation at Mapoon, Queensland
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- Prologue
- Missionaries’ guilt
- Passing the guilt
- Positive feedback loop of guilt
- The cycle begins again
- Conclusions
- References
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- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- 11. Corrupt desires and the wages of sin: Indigenous people, missionaries and male
sexuality, 1830-1850
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- References
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- Primary sources
- Secondary sources