1st Edition

Being All Equal Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice

By Judith Kapferer Copyright 1996
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

- Is there such a thing as an Australian national identity? Or is Australia just a melting pot of different peoples and cultures without a common culture? - What is distinctive and what is universal about everyday life in Australia? In a post-colonial age of globalizing economies, the political quest for national 'identity' is increasingly urgent. This topical book traces the ways in which the... Read more
CHAPTER ONE A Profession of Being All Equal CHAPTER TWO Ideology and Public Culture: The Work of Mythology CHAPTER THREE The Discourses of History: Larrikins, Scarlet Women and the Apparatus of Capture CHAPTER FOUR Cultural Space: The Production and Consumption of Symbolic Goods CHAPTER FIVE A Fortunate Style of Life: The Accumulation of Symbolic Capital in Suburbia CHAPTER SIX Power, Knowledge, Practice: Common Sense and Received Wisdom CHAPTER SEVEN The Dream of Community: Bread, Circuses and Ideology CHAPTER EIGHT Presenting the Nation to the People: Commodity and Community CHAPTER NINE The Architecture of Identity: Parliament House and the Stockman's Hall of Fame CHAPTER TEN Exploring Community, Imagining Society CHAPTER ELEVEN Community, State, Nation, Power and Praxis CHAPTER TWELVE A Nationalist Interlude EPILOGUE Such is Life

Biography

Judith Kapferer Freelance Sociologist,formerly Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education, Flinders University of South Australia