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Caging the Rainbow

Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town

By: Francesca Merlan

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Caging the Rainbow

Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town

By: Francesca Merlan

Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and theory to grapple with issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. Throughout, the vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them and the ethical problems this poses are kept in view.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824861744

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A Grammar of Wardaman

A Language of the Northern Territory of Australia

By: Francesca C. Merlan

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A Grammar of Wardaman

A Language of the Northern Territory of Australia

By: Francesca C. Merlan

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110871378

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Caging the Rainbow

Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town

By: Francesca Merlan

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Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town

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Dynamics of Difference in Australia

Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country

By: Francesca Merlan

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Dynamics of Difference in Australia

Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country

By: Francesca Merlan

In Dynamics of Difference in Australia, Francesca Merlan examines relations between indigenous and nonindigenous people from the events of early exploration and colonial endeavors to the present day. From face-to-face interactions to national and geopolitical affairs, the book illuminates the dimensions of difference that are revealed by these encounters: what indigenous and nonindigenous people pay attention to, what they value, what preconceived notions each possesses, and what their responses are to the Other. Basing her analysis on her extensive fieldwork in northern Australia, Merlan highlights the asymmetries in the exchanges between the settler majority and the indigenous minority, looking at everything from forms of violence and material transactions, to indigenous involvement in resource development, to governmental intervention in indigenous affairs. Merlan frames the book within the current debate in Australian society concerning the constitutional recognition of indigenous people by the nation-state. Surveying the precursors to this question and its continuing and unresolved nature, she chronicles the ways in which an indigenous minority can remain culturally different while simultaneously experiencing the transformative forces of domination, constraint, and inequality. Conducting an investigation of long-term change against the backdrop of a highly salient and timely public debate surrounding indigenous issues, Dynamics of Difference has far-reaching implications both for public policy and for current theoretical debates about the nature of sociocultural continuity and change.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812294858

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9780812294859

Dynamics of Difference in Australia

Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country

By: Francesca Merlan

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Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country

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Francesca Merlan examines the dynamics of difference that have existed between the settler majority and indigenous minority of Australia, from the events of early exploration to the present, shedding light on their unequal and changing relations over time.

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320

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812250001

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9780812250008

Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy

By: Francesca Alesse

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Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy

By: Francesca Alesse

The essays collected in this volume focus on the role played by the philosophy of the Hellenistic, or post-Aristotelian age (from the school of the successors of Aristotle, Theophrastus and other Peripatetics, Epicurus, Sceptical Academy and Stoicism, to neo-Pythagorenism and the schools of Antiochus and Eudorus) in Philo of Alexandria’s works. Despite many authoritative studies on Philo's vision of Greek philosophy as an exegetical tool in allegorizing the Scripture, there is not such a comprehensive overview in Philo’s treatises that takes in account both the progress achieved in the recent interpretation of Hellenistic philosophy and analysis of ancient doxographical literature.

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BRILL

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9047433572

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9789047433576

Before Nature

Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science

By: Francesca Rochberg

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Before Nature

Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science

By: Francesca Rochberg

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the concept of nature formed over the long history of European philosophy and science, our ancestors in ancient Assyria and Babylonia developed an inquiry into the world in a way that is kindred to our modern science. With Before Nature, Francesca Rochberg explores that Assyro-Babylonian knowledge tradition and shows how it relates to the entire history of science. From a modern, Western perspective, a world not conceived somehow within the framework of physical nature is difficult—if not impossible—to imagine. Yet, as Rochberg lays out, ancient investigations of regularity and irregularity, norms and anomalies clearly established an axis of knowledge between the knower and an intelligible, ordered world. Rochberg is the first scholar to make a case for how exactly we can understand cuneiform knowledge, observation, prediction, and explanation in relation to science—without recourse to later ideas of nature. Systematically examining the whole of Mesopotamian science with a distinctive historical and methodological approach, Before Nature will open up surprising new pathways for studying the history of science.

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380

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University of Chicago Press

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022675958X

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9780226759586

Ku Waru

By: Francesca Merlan,Alan Rumsey

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Ku Waru

By: Francesca Merlan,Alan Rumsey

The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. Although much has been written about them, previous accounts have concentrated far less on the conduct of exchange events than on the structure of exchange systems. This 1991 book deals centrally with the conduct of particular exchange events, and shows through examination of them how larger social structures are reproduced and transformed. As part of the emphasis on exchange as social action, the book closely examines the oratory that plays a crucial part in the events. Basing their study on original fieldwork carried out in the Nebilyer Valley, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey focus on an inter related set of large-scale compensation payments which arose out of an episode of warfare. This book furthers our understanding of the interaction between social structures and historical events; and particularly of the crucial role of talk. It will be of special interest to anthropologists and linguists.

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406

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Cambridge University Press

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0521323398

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9780521323390

A Grammar of Wardaman

A Language of the Northern Territory of Australia

By: Francesca C. Merlan

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The Significance of the Conservation Zone to Aboriginal People

By: Ian Keen,Francesca Merlan,Australia. Resource Assessment Commission. Kakadu Conservation Zone Inquiry,Resource Assessment Commission (Australia). Kakadu Conservation Zone Inquiry

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The Significance of the Conservation Zone to Aboriginal People

By: Ian Keen,Francesca Merlan,Australia. Resource Assessment Commission. Kakadu Conservation Zone Inquiry,Resource Assessment Commission (Australia). Kakadu Conservation Zone Inquiry

Bula complex and sickness country; Gimbat, Guratba and other significant sites in the Kakadu Conservation Zone; conflicting views and attitudes of Jawoyn people on mining at Coronation Hill; threat posed by mining and tourism to sites.

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0644136995

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Book's by Francesca Merlan

Caging the Rainbow

Caging the Rainbow

A Grammar of Wardaman

A Grammar of Wardaman

Caging the Rainbow

Caging the Rainbow

Dynamics of Difference in Australia

Dynamics of Difference in Australia

Dynamics of Difference in Australia

Dynamics of Difference in Australia

Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy

Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy

Before Nature

Before Nature

Ku Waru

Ku Waru

A Grammar of Wardaman

A Grammar of Wardaman

The Significance of the Conservation Zone to Aboriginal People

The Significance of the Conservation Zone to Aboriginal People

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