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Returned to Sender: Some Predicaments of Re‐indigenisation
Author(s) -
Beckett Jeremy
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2012.tb00122.x
Subject(s) - indigenization , indigenous , communication source , white (mutation) , ethnology , sociology , history , gender studies , geography , anthropology , ecology , biology , engineering , telecommunications , biochemistry , gene
It is some 40 years since Australia officially re‐indigenised its Aborigines, at the same time giving rise to cultures of indigenism in the community at large. For those who lived in the closely settled areas, re‐indigenisation entails a new positioning vis‐à‐vis what can be recovered of traditional practices and places, but also vis‐a‐vis non‐indigenous people involved in indigenism. The paper recounts the response of one such indigenous group to the possibility of learning secrets that had long been known to white people, but not to them.