Unmaking Angas Downs : Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station / Shannyn Palmer.
Unmaking Angas Downs traces a history of colonisation in Central Australia by tracking the rise and demise of a rural enterprise across half a century, as well as the complex and creative practices that transformed a cattle station into Country. It grapples with the question of how people experience...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Carlton :
Melbourne University Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | Unmaking Angas Downs traces a history of colonisation in Central Australia by tracking the rise and demise of a rural enterprise across half a century, as well as the complex and creative practices that transformed a cattle station into Country. It grapples with the question of how people experience profound dislocation and come to make a place for themselves in the wake of rupture. Angas Downs emerges as a place of dynamic interaction and social life - not only lived in, but also made by Anangu - back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : chiefly illustrations, map, portraits |
| ISBN: | 0522878393 9780522878394 |