Growing up in Central Australia: new anthropological studies of Aboriginal childhood and adolescence

Growing up in Central Australia: new anthropological studies of Aboriginal childhood and adolescence News

  • Author(s): Eickelkamp, Ute
  • Published: 2011
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Abstract: Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities – roughly 1,200 across the continent – the volume includes case studies of language and family life in small country towns and urban contexts. These studies expertly show that forms of consciousness have changed enormously over the last hundred years for Indigenous societies more so than for the rest of Australia, yet equally notable are the continuities across generations. Contents Introduction: Aboriginal Children and Young People in Focus PART I: CHILDHOOD ACROSS TIME: HISTORICAL AND LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVES Chapter 1. 'Less was hidden among these children': Géza Róheim, Anthropology and the Politics of Aboriginal Childhood - John Morton Chapter 2. Envisioning Lives at Ernabella - Katrina Tjitayi and Sandra Lewis Chapter 3. Warungka: Becoming and Un-becoming a Warlpiri Person - Yasmine Musharbash Chapter 4. Fathers and Sons, Trajectories of Self – Reflections on Pintupi Lives and Futures - Fred R. Myers PART II: STORIES, LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL SPACE Chapter 5.Sand Storytelling – Its Social Meaning in Anangu Children’s Lives - Ute Eickelkamp Chapter 6.Young Children's Social Meaning-Making in a New Mixed Language - Carmel O'Shannessey Chapter 7.The Yard Craig - San Roque PART III: YOUTH, IDENTITY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION Chapter 8. Organization within Disorder – The Present and Future of Young People in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands - David Brooks Chapter 9. Being Mardu: Change and Challenge for Some Western Desert Young People Today - Myrna Tonkinson Chapter 10. Invisible and Visible Loyalties in Racialized Contexts: A Systemic Perspective on Aboriginal Youth - Marika Moisseeff

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