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Aboriginal Family and the State

The Conditions of History

By: Dr Sally Babidge

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Aboriginal Family and the State

The Conditions of History

By: Dr Sally Babidge

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 production, 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 identity.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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ISBN 10

140949215X

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9781409492153

My God, My Land

Interwoven Paths of Christianity and Tradition in Fiji

By: Dr Jacqueline Ryle

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My God, My Land

Interwoven Paths of Christianity and Tradition in Fiji

By: Dr Jacqueline Ryle

Examining the multifaceted nature of Christianity in Fiji, My God, My Land reveals the deeply complex and often paradoxical dynamics and tensions between processes of change and continuity as they unfold in representations and practices of Christianity and tradition in people's everyday lives. The book draws on extensive, multi-sited fieldwork in different denominations to explore how shared values and cultural belonging are employed to strengthen relations. As such My God, My Land will be of interest to anthropologists of Oceania as well as scholars and students researching into social and cultural change, ritual, religion, Christianity, enculturation and contextual theology.

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372

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409492435

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9781409492436

Migrating Genders

Westernisation, Migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine

By: Dr Johanna Schmidt

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Migrating Genders

Westernisation, Migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine

By: Dr Johanna Schmidt

Migrating Genders presents a sustained description of male-to-female transgendered identities, explaining how the fa'afafine fit within the wider gender system of Samoa, and examining both the impact of Westernization on fa'afafine identities and lives, and the experiences of fa'afafine who have migrated to New Zealand. Informed by theories of sex, gender and embodiment, this book explores the manner in which the expression and understanding of non-normative gendered identities in Samoa problematizes dominant western understandings of the relationship between sex and gender. Drawing on rich empirical material, this book tells of both the diversity and the uniqueness of fa'afafine identities, aspects which fa'afafine have maintained in the face of Westernization, migration, and cultural marginalization in both Samoa and New Zealand. As such, in addition to anthropologists, it will be of interest to geographers, sociologists, and other readers with interests in gender and sexuality.

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1409492443

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9781409492443

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Aboriginal Family and the State

Aboriginal Family and the State

My God, My Land

My God, My Land

Migrating Genders

Migrating Genders

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