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Australian Settler Colonialism & the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station: Redrawing Boundaries
Fiona Davis
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Description for Australian Settler Colonialism & the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station: Redrawing Boundaries
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 322.
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 Aboriginal Station traces Cummeragunja's ... Read more
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 Aboriginal Station traces Cummeragunja's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845196905
SKU
V9781845196905
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Ref
99-50
About Fiona Davis
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Australian Settler Colonialism & the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station: Redrawing Boundaries
"Fiona Davis, a non-Indigenous scholar who grew up in northern Victoria, has done a great service by adapting her doctoral thesis into this fine book. She has written a fascinating, thoughtful, and accessible history of Cummeragunja, tracing its story from its late nineteenth century origins in the nearby Maloga Mission, through to the stations official closure in 1953. Her experience ... Read more