Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town

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i n d e x 277 Aboriginal Affairs: liberalization of, 146–147; policy, 149–151 Aboriginal–Australian Fellowship, 157 Aboriginality: Commonwealth definition of, 156; representations of, 150–151, 153, 176, 180, 234 Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory ) Act 1976, 33, 46, 78, 163–166, 235 Aboriginal Sacred Sites Protection Authority , 220, 260; See sacred sites Aboriginals Ordinance No. 9 of 1918, 185 Aboriginal Tent Embassy, 164 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984, 211 Aboriginal Welfare Branch, 243 Aboriginal–white relations, viii, 2, 31, 55–56, 60, 73, 88, 186–196, 216; historical , 19; power, 26; uses of town space, 191 Aborigines Inland Mission, 37 Ah Toy, 37 alcohol, 5, 30, 42, 78, 193; alcoholism, 200–201; 258; dry areas, 203–208; dry areas legislation, 258; night patrols, 206; public drunkenness, 31, 198–199; socio–spatial practices in relation to, 183–184, 194–208; supply to Aborigines , 25, 41, 134, 185; Two–Kilometre Law, 196 Alice Springs, ix, 74, 106, 144, 202, 259 alienation, 202, 205 Alligator Rivers Stage II, 170 Anderson, B., 210 Andrews, Sarah, 25, 80– 89, 93, 100, 103, 108, 137, photo, 171 Anglo–Celts, 154–155 Aranda, 74 Arndt,Walter, 37–40, 129–139, 141, 145–147, 170, 174, 219–220, 250, 253–256; study of Tagoman (Dagoman) tribe, understanding of, 115–119 Arnhem Land, 40, 45, 64, 69, 77, 81–82, 85, 88, 118, 120–121, 132, 164, 170, 246, 247, 251, 260; territory, Map, 15 Asad,T., 231 Asia,Australian relation to, 154–155 assimilation, viii, 77, 143, 149, 151, 156, 180, 230 Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 9 authenticity, 170, 213, 216, 222, 224 authority: ethnographic, 231, 239; of old people, 58 autochthony, 176 autonomy, personal: 167, 198, 257 Bagala (clan), 87–89 Balatj Crossing: Map, 63 Bamyili, (Barunga), 5, 41, 43, 55, 64, 77, 80, 85, 88–89, 103, 124, 127 Bandler, Faith, 157 Barwick, D., 242 Barrarndila, Peter , 86–87, 136–137 Barraway, Sandy, 23–24, 44, 51, 67, 92, 97–98, 106; photo, 173 Beckett, J. R., x, 242 Bell, D., ix, 1, 73 Bell, J. H., 242 Bern, J., 79 Berndt, R. M., 118 Beswick Station, 23, 37, 78, 80, 82, 88–89, 92, 97, 103, 105, 120, 127–128, 133, 251 Bhabha, H. K., 153 Birdsell, J., 118 Birlamjam, Fanny, 78, 82–86, 93, 97, 103, 110, 113; photo, 171 Birrgalaju,Tommy, 23–24 birthplace, naming after, 97–99, 112 Blackburn, Justice, 164 Bobby, 127–129, 140 body: ancestral, 213, 246–247; phenomenal , 211; in place, 92, 213, 225 bolung, 49, 96, See rainbow serpent Bourdieu, P., 211, 218, 226 boundary, 94, 119, 123–124; physical features as marker of, 131–135 Brady, M., 202–203, 259 Braroe, N.W., 97, 100 Briggs, C., 210 Britain: Australia as outpost of, 154–155; as colonizer, 151–153, 161 Brown, Nipper, 51 Bruce, Nigel, 24–25, 187 Brumby, Henry, 39–40, 62 Brumby, Ivy: photo, 171 Bunjarri, 20, 43–44, 127, 139, 190, 258 burial, 18, 32 Burke, Edmund, 152 Calley, M., 242 Calwell,Arthur, 155 card–playing, 38, 193, 226 Carter, P., 118 Casey, E., 77, 211, 259 Catfish. See Dreaming, Catfish centrism: political resistance to by States, 161–162 ceremony, 78, 88, 129, 131, 248; as high culture, 69; returning to country for, 25 change, 94, 97–98, 114, 145, 148–151, 173–174, 209, 229, 238; artificial construction of, 233; in Aboriginal identity, 169; in clan level identity, 91; crossgenerational , 111; cultural, 4, 21, 27; in marriage frequencies, 120; representation of, 170 Chinese, 24, 37, 154, 241 Christie,Wally, 207, 244; Map, 63 chronology: versus person–relativity, 49, 104 278 • Index citizenship:Aboriginal, 156–157, 202 clan, 4, 76–77, 111, 114, 117–118, 145, 166–172, 247; anthropological views of, 79, 112; dissolution of, 229; identity with, 78– 87; place–linked, 79, 90, 92 climate, 10–11 Cohn, B., 152 Collman, J., 168, 202, 242 colonial history, 140. See Scott killing colonialism, 145–148, 152, 157, 169, 173 Committee for Community Ownership of Katherine Gorge National Park, 177 Connell, R.W., 158 consciousness, emergence of new forms, 3, 73, 140; diversity of, 190 constructionism: social, 210–212, 223 continuity, 145, 148–151, 154, 168–169, 173–174, 209, 215–225, 229, 239 Cook, Captain James, 153 Coronation Hill, 219, 261; See sacred sites country: association with language, 119; changes to orientations to, 96; as constructed , 123; experience of, 171; objecti fication of, 113–114; orientations to, ix, 46–47, 75...