Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Changing selves in remote Australia?, observations on Aboriginal family life, childhood and 'modernisation', Ute Eickelkamp

eng

Bibliography: p. 147-151

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non fiction

Changing selves in remote Australia?

Ute Eickelkamp

observations on Aboriginal family life, childhood and 'modernisation'

Discusses the differences between the Aboriginal concepts of self and family and those of the wider Australian / Western society; modernisation; problems of creating and administrating a modern self in Aboriginal society; concept of the family; status of childhood and the development of subjectivity; the state?s and missions? attempts at creating the modern 'self'; state interventions and cultural reproduction; problem of commonality, home ownership and the nuclear family; spiritual and ontological security in relationship to kin, country and Dreaming; naming practice ? meaning and use of personal names; influence and resistance to youth culture; includes brief reference to the influence of art (sand drawing) and contemporary art production