Transgressions: Critical Australian Indigenous histories (Aboriginal History Monograph 16)

Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
References......Page 14
François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance......Page 15
References......Page 30
Black Power......Page 33
The tents......Page 36
Black pride......Page 37
The tents......Page 39
Black independence......Page 40
The tents......Page 41
Primary documents......Page 43
Newspapers and media sources......Page 44
Secondary sources......Page 45
Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations......Page 49
Feudal transgression: a more elucidatory means of classifying cattle stations......Page 50
Intersection between feudal land laws and power......Page 51
Pastoralists’ governance on the frontier......Page 53
Normalised pastoralists’ jurisdiction......Page 54
Northern pastoral lords over their feudal estate and workers......Page 55
The strength of pastoralists’ jurisdiction in the face of government legislation......Page 58
Non-payment of wages as a source of pastoralists’ authority......Page 59
Aboriginal transgression......Page 61
Conclusion: limits of Aboriginal transgression and ways forward......Page 63
Primary sources......Page 64
Secondary Sources......Page 65
Dreaming the circle: indigeneity and the longing for belonging in White Australia......Page 77
References......Page 91
A cultural courtesy......Page 97
A snapshot......Page 99
Introduction......Page 100
The birth of Central Australian tourism......Page 101
The language of tourism......Page 102
The ‘Imperial’ tourist gaze......Page 104
The ‘pioneer’ tourist gaze......Page 107
The ‘anthropological’ tourist gaze......Page 113
Displacement and massacre......Page 115
Survival and adjustment......Page 118
Transmission of knowledge to the next generation......Page 121
Unwanted celebrity?......Page 122
The meeting......Page 126
The name......Page 128
Collaboration and escape......Page 129
Conclusion......Page 133
A postscript......Page 137
References......Page 138
Fiction and truth in Cape York Peninsula romances......Page 149
Singing songs of love......Page 150
Tradition and the separation of men and women......Page 151
The permission of family and church, or marriage as freedom......Page 152
Making a song and dance about it......Page 155
Relationships and community......Page 156
Illicit love and illegal relationships......Page 157
Censorship and homosexuality......Page 159
Reluctance to wed: the love of solitude and independence......Page 160
Acknowledgements......Page 162
Secondary sources......Page 163
‘Hanging no good for blackfellow’: looking into the life of Musquito......Page 167
Newspapers......Page 184
Secondary sources......Page 185
The construction of knowledge in the late eighteenth century......Page 191
Aboriginal society pre-contact......Page 193
Leadership......Page 194
Bungaree, chief of the Sydney Blacks......Page 195
Irish-Aboriginal oral history......Page 197
Contemporary leadership......Page 200
Conclusion......Page 201
Secondary sources......Page 202
Sedentary topography: the impact of the Christian Mission Society’s ‘civilising’ agenda on the spatial structure of life in the Roper Region of northern Australia......Page 207
References......Page 221
Prologue......Page 225
Missionaries’ guilt......Page 226
Passing the guilt......Page 228
Positive feedback loop of guilt......Page 231
The cycle begins again......Page 234
Conclusions......Page 235
Secondary sources......Page 239
Corrupt desires and the wages of sin: Indigenous people, missionaries and male sexuality, 1830-1850......Page 243
Secondary sources......Page 256