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Fiona Davis

Australian Settler Colonialism and the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station

Redrawing Boundaries

Buch

In 1938, the anthropologist Norman Tindale gave a classroom of young Aboriginal children a set of crayons and asked them to draw. The children, residents of the government-run Aboriginal station Cummeragunja, mostly drew pictures of aspects of white civilization boats, houses and flowers. What now to make of their artwork? Were the children encouraged or pressured to draw non-Aboriginal scenes, or did they draw freely, appropriating the white culture they now lived within? Did their Aboriginality change the meaning of their art, as they sketched out this ubiquitous colonial imagery? Australian Settler Colonialism and the Cummeragunja Abori… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84519-608-0
  • EAN: 9781845196080
  • Produktnummer: 15923231
  • Verlag: Sussex Academic Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.9 cm x D1.7 cm 440 g
  • Gewicht: 440
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


Fiona Davis is a scholar in cross-cultural history with a PhD from the University of Melbourne. She is the co-editor of Founders, Firsts and Feminists: Women Leaders in Twentieth Century Australia and the author of book chapters in Creating White Australia and Outside Country: A History of Inland Australia. The descendant of early settlers, she grew up on a dairy farm in northern Victoria.

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