1st Edition
Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas A study of racial power and intimacy in Australia
By Gillian Cowlishaw
Copyright 1999
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
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This lively book brings the reader close to the people from a remote cattle station in far north Australia, where black and white peoples' lives have been intertwined over the span of 80 years. Tracing the humorous, savage and ordinary ways in which race structured intimate and everyday relationships across a great divide, Gillian Cowlishaw makes startling and original arguments about race... Read more
Maps and Figures
Abbreviations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Fields of Enquiry
Finding a field
Gathering data
Outrageous fortune
Single women's camp
2 Opening Ceremony
Finding the Bulman story
Boundaries
Pastoralists
3 Civilising the Country
Establishing civility
The primitive past and proletarian future
Experts
4 Reforming the People
Labour relations
People in their places
Race relations
5 Racial Intimacies
Bureaucratic savagery
Close relations
Intimates and enemies
6 A New Modernism
Hasluck's final solution
Leaving Mainoru
7 Betrayals
Forgetting the past
Footwalking to Bulman
8 A
Abbreviations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Fields of Enquiry
Finding a field
Gathering data
Outrageous fortune
Single women's camp
2 Opening Ceremony
Finding the Bulman story
Boundaries
Pastoralists
3 Civilising the Country
Establishing civility
The primitive past and proletarian future
Experts
4 Reforming the People
Labour relations
People in their places
Race relations
5 Racial Intimacies
Bureaucratic savagery
Close relations
Intimates and enemies
6 A New Modernism
Hasluck's final solution
Leaving Mainoru
7 Betrayals
Forgetting the past
Footwalking to Bulman
8 A
Biography
GILLIAN COWLISHAW began life on a farm. After being a traveller, a mother and a teacher, she became a student, taking her doctorate in anthropology. Her intellectual interests are varied, though most of her research has been concerned with the position of Aborigines in relation to Australian society. She is currently a research scholar at the University of Technology, Sydney.
