White Flour, White Power
From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 June 1998
- ISBN 9780521624572
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 229x152x19 mm
- Weight 570 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 maps 14 tables 0
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Short description:
This cultural study of rationing in Central Australia develops a new narrative of colonisation.
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The colonial practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people has been neglected in the study of Australian frontiers. This book argues that much of the colonial experience in Central Australia can be understood by seeing rationing as a fundamental, though flexible, instrument of colonial government. Rationing was the material basis for a variety of colonial ventures: scientific, evangelical, pastoral and the post-war program of 'assimilation'. Combining history and anthropology in a cultural study of rationing, this book develops a new narrative of the colonisation of Central Australia. Two arguments underpin this story: that the colonists were puzzled by the motives of the Indigenous recipients; and that they were highly inventive in the meanings and moral foundations they ascribed to the rationing relationship. This study goes to the heart of contemporary reflections on the nature of Indigenous 'citizenship'.
'... innovative and meticulously researched ... this is a challenging study in historical anthropology'. The Australian
Table of Contents:
A theatre of stages; Part I: 1. Rationing the inexplicable; 2. Rationed actors; Part II: 3. Rural central Australia, 1914-40; 4. Town, cash and supervision; 5. 'A Christian cannot be a parasite'; 6. The World War in town and hinterland; Conclusion: Indigenous welfare at mid-century; Part III: 7. 'Assimilation; 8. The crisis of managed consumption; 9. Settlements and families; 10. Alice Springs and its town camps; Continuities.
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