Informationen zum Autor Rosita Henry is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Fellow of the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She is coeditor of The Challenge of Indigenous Peoples: Spectacle or Politics? (2011) and author of numerous articles on the political anthropology of place and performance. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung During the 1970s a wave of "counter-culture" people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population! concentrating on a number of linked social dramas... Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents List of Figures and Maps Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introducing Place: Fieldwork and Framework Chapter 2. Colonising Place: The Mutilation of Memory Chapter 3. Countering Place: Hippies, Hairies and 'Enacted Utopia' Chapter 4. Performing Place: Amphitheater Dramas Chapter 5. Commodifying Place: The Metamorphosis of the Markets Chapter 6. Planning Place: Main Street Blues Chapter 7. Dancing Place: Cultural Renaissance and Tjapukai Theatre Chapter 8. Protesting Place: Environmentalists, Aborigines and the Skyrail Chapter 9. Creating Place: The Production of a Space for Difference References Index ...

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Rosita Henry is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Fellow of the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She is coeditor of The Challenge of Indigenous Peoples: Spectacle or Politics? (2011) and author of numerous articles on the political anthropology of place and performance.

Klappentext

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

Zusammenfassung
During the 1970s a wave of "counter-culture" people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas...

Inhalt

Table of Contents
List of Figures and Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introducing Place: Fieldwork and Framework
Chapter 2. Colonising Place: The Mutilation of Memory
Chapter 3. Countering Place: Hippies, Hairies and 'Enacted Utopia'
Chapter 4. Performing Place: Amphitheater Dramas
Chapter 5. Commodifying Place: The Metamorphosis of the Markets
Chapter 6. Planning Place: Main Street Blues
Chapter 7. Dancing Place: Cultural Renaissance and Tjapukai Theatre
Chapter 8. Protesting Place: Environmentalists, Aborigines and the Skyrail
Chapter 9. Creating Place: The Production of a Space for Difference

References
Index