Performing Place, Practising Memories: Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State (Space and Place)
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Rosita Henry (Author)
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During the 1970s a wave of 'counter-culture' people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects.
About the Author
Rosita Henry is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Fellow of the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She is coeditor of The Challenge of Indigenous Peoples: Spectacle or Politics? (2011) and author of numerous articles on the political anthropology of place and performance.
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- Contributor: Rosita Henry
- Imprint: Berghahn Books
- ISBN13: 9781782386834
- Number of Pages: 288
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 390
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Release Date: 2014-11-01
- Series: Space and Place
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Rosita Henry is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Fellow of the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She is coeditor of The Challenge of Indigenous Peoples: Spectacle or Politics? (2011) and author of numerous articles on the political anthropology of place and performance.
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