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A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia
Ravi De Costa
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Description for A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia
Paperback. This important book recovers the long tradition of indigenous transnationalism - contact with external people, institutions, ideas - throughout Australia's history from before white settlement to the present. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFSL9; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 350.
This book is a transnational history of indigenous Australians. Indigenous peoples in Australia have always been engaged in transnational encounters. They regulated access to resources, conducted material and cultural exchanges, and managed conflicts and mobility with traditions of diplomacy. Transnational encounters in the classical indigenous world existed under the 'higher authority' of the cosmological realm. Colonisation destroyed much of this. In time though, indigenous peoples used Europeans' own universal ideologies in order to reconstruct their communities. Universal ideologies like humanitarianism and socialism saw 'the Aboriginal problem' against the standards of higher authorities, with which the behaviour of colonial and state ... Read more
This book is a transnational history of indigenous Australians. Indigenous peoples in Australia have always been engaged in transnational encounters. They regulated access to resources, conducted material and cultural exchanges, and managed conflicts and mobility with traditions of diplomacy. Transnational encounters in the classical indigenous world existed under the 'higher authority' of the cosmological realm. Colonisation destroyed much of this. In time though, indigenous peoples used Europeans' own universal ideologies in order to reconstruct their communities. Universal ideologies like humanitarianism and socialism saw 'the Aboriginal problem' against the standards of higher authorities, with which the behaviour of colonial and state ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Sydney, Australia
ISBN
9780868409542
SKU
V9780868409542
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About Ravi De Costa
Ravi de Costa has lived in Ireland, Russia, PNG, Australia and Canada. He did his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Sydney and Melbourne before taking up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at McMaster University in Ontario. For the last 3 years he has been co-ordinating an interdisciplinary and collaborative research project on 'Globalization, autonomy and indigenous peoples', involving scholars from all over ... Read more
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