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Aboriginal family and the state, the conditions of history, Sally Babidge

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Aboriginal family and the state

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Sally Babidge

Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific

the conditions of history

Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issues of government control and recent official recognition of Aboriginal 'traditional owners'. Drawing on detailed empirical research, it develops a discussion of the anthropological issues of kinship and relatedness within colonial and 'postcolonial' contexts. This volume explores the conditions affecting the formation of 'family' among indigenous people in rural northern Australia, as well as the contingencies of 'family' in the legal and political context of contemporary indigenous claims to land. With a rich discussion of the productio- n, practice and inscription of social relations, this volume examines everyday expressions of 'family', and events such as meetings and funerals, demonstrating that kinship is formed and reformed through a complicated social practice of competing demands on identityAnthropologyAustralianAborigines