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Title

Aboriginal business : alliances in a remote Australian town / Kimberly Christen.

Author

Christen, Kimberly A.

Publication

Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2009, c2008.

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Description

xvii, 315 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

From the vantage point of the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, this book offers new writing and perspectives on the emergence of Aboriginal organisations, and the unfolding of these within town, regional and national contexts. It is an ethnographic snapshot of the Warumungu people, the traditional owners of the country.

Series Statement

School for Advanced Research global indigenous politics series

Uniform Title

School for Advanced Research global indigenous politics series.

Subject

• Business enterprises, Aboriginal Australian > Tennant Creek (N.T.)
• Warumungu (Australian people) > Tennant Creek (N.T.) > Economic conditions
• Warumungu (Australian people) > Employment > Tennant Creek (N.T.)
• Warumungu (Australian people) > Tennant Creek (N.T.) > Social conditions
• Tennant Creek (N.T.) > Economic conditions
• Tennant Creek (N.T.) > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-304) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: Opening Business -- 1. Alliance-Making: An Introduction -- Sect. 1. Community Control -- 2. Country Claims -- 3. Managing Mobs -- Sect. 2. Uneasy Alliances -- 4. Constrained Collaborations -- 5. Practical Partnerships -- Sect. 3. Proper Productions -- 6. Negotiating Networks -- 7. Culture Work -- Conclusion: Closing Business.

ISBN

• 9781930618985 (pa : alk. paper)
• 1930618980 (pa : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008043750

OCLC

173807364

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library