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Caging the rainbow : places, politics, and aborigines in a North Australian town
- Title
- Caging the rainbow : places, politics, and aborigines in a North Australian town / Francesca Merlan.
- Author
- Merlan, Francesca.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [1998], ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GN667.N6 M47 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 285 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subject
- Aboriginal Australians > History
- Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians > Government relations
- Human territoriality > Katherine (N.T.)
- Spatial behavior > Katherine (N.T.)
- Geographical perception > Katherine (N.T.)
- Katherine (N.T.) > History
- Katherine (N.T.) > Social conditions
- Katherine (N.T.) > Race relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-276) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Places and People of Katherine Town -- 2. From Place to Town -- 3. We Useta Walk Around, All the People -- 4. Tribes and Town -- 5. Imposition and Imitation: Changing Directions in Aboriginal Affairs -- 6. Struggles in Town Space -- 7. Do Places Appear? Further Struggle in Space -- 8. Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 0824820010 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0824820452 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97048596
- OCLC
- ocm38013763
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries