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OverviewSurprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities - roughly 1,200 across the continent - the volume includes case studies of language and family life in small country towns and urban contexts. These studies expertly show that forms of consciousness have changed enormously over the last hundred years for Indigenous societies more so than for the rest of Australia, yet equally notable are the continuities across generations. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ute EickelkampPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9780857450821ISBN 10: 0857450824 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 01 June 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsFigures Acknowledgments Map of Australia Introduction: Aboriginal Children and Young People in Focus PART I: CHILDHOOD ACROSS TIME: HISTORICAL AND LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVES Chapter 1. 'Less was hidden among these children': Geza Roheim, Anthropology and the Politics of Aboriginal Childhood John Morton Chapter 2. Envisioning Lives at Ernabella Katrina Tjitayi and Sandra Lewis Chapter 3. Warungka: Becoming and Un-becoming a Warlpiri Person Yasmine Musharbash Chapter 4. Fathers and Sons, Trajectories of Self - Reflections on Pintupi Lives and Futures Fred R. Myers PART II: STORIES, LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL SPACE Chapter 5.Sand Storytelling - Its Social Meaning in Anangu Children's Lives Ute Eickelkamp Chapter 6.Young Children's Social Meaning-Making in a New Mixed Language Carmel O'Shannessey Appendix Chapter 7.The Yard Craig San Roque PART III: YOUTH, IDENTITY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION Chapter 8. Organization within Disorder - The Present and Future of Young People in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands David Brooks Chapter 9. Being Mardu: Change and Challenge for Some Western Desert Young People Today Myrna Tonkinson Chapter 10. Invisible and Visible Loyalties in Racialized Contexts: A Systemic Perspective on Aboriginal Youth Marika Moisseeff Appendix Notes on Contributors References IndexReviewsThis excellent volume presents - a rich and timely collection of essays on contemporary Aboriginal childhood and youth, each chapter being grounded on extensive ethnographic experiences and studies - It is an original contribution to a growing field, namely the anthropology of childhood and youth - and offers 'food for thought' and a range of perspectives which allow the reader to better appreciate Aboriginal lives, challenges and points of view.A * Sylvie Poirier, Universite Laval, Quebec Author InformationUte Eickelkamp is ARC Future Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Between 2004 and 2009 she was ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School for Social and Policy Research at Charles Darwin University. She studied Anangu children's imagination and social and emotional dynamics through a traditional form of sand storytelling in the Central Australian community of Ernabella, after therapeutic sandplay work with Tiwi children in Australia's north. Her current research focuses on the transformation of Australian Indigenous ontologies and subjectivities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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