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- Title: Explorations Towards Intercultural Accounts of Socio-Cultural Reproduction and Change.
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 229 KB
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INTRODUCTION In the call for papers for the session 'Articulating cultures: Understanding engagements between indigenous and non-indigenous lifeworlds' at the Australian Anthropological Society conference of 2002, the convenors characterised my book, Caging the Rainbow (Merlan 1998), as an attempt to implement a notion of an 'intercultural' ethnographic description involving Australian Aborigines. I had used this word of my effort to describe the situation of Aboriginal people in a town in the upper central Northern Territory. My concern was to find ways of dealing more fully than many descriptions do with forms of engagement and influence between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and institutions, and the implications of this for change. It was important to keep 'engagement between' in view at all times, especially with reference to a town situation. But the use of the word, I must admit, remained more indicative than examined. The kind of descriptive and ethnographic issues to which it was intended to apply are difficult ones, involving questions of difference, boundedness and transformation of indigenous life-ways in relation to the broader Australian social order. To these there is no simple 'answer', but there is a variety of potentially relevant theoretical positions, several of which I explore here. Beginning with an ethnographic fragment, I consider what potential they may have to assist in developing the issues raised.
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