Performing Place, Practising Memories

Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State

von Rosita Henry

288 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

First published ethnography from this region of tropical Northern Australia in which is located the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area The only study focusing on relationships between indigenous Australians and the wave of "counter-culture" people who moved into rural communities during the 1970s and 1980s One of the very few studies which have explored the settlement practices of the "counter-culture" settlers, or "hippies". Unique for its examination of the social conflicts generated by the transformation of a tourist town in the Wet Tropics of Australia

• Reihe: Space and Place
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9780857455086
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2012
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books