Nineteenth century bureaucratic constructions of Indigenous identities in New South Wales

Resource Information

The work Nineteenth century bureaucratic constructions of Indigenous identities in New South Wales represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Nineteenth century bureaucratic constructions of Indigenous identities in New South Wales

Statement of responsibility

Marilyn Wood

Creator

• Wood, Marilyn

Subject

• Politics and Government - Civil rights and citizenship
• Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
• Culture - Relationship to land
• Social identity

Language

eng

Summary

Discusses changing government categorisation of Aboriginal identity, the criteria for citizenship inclusion or exclusion; changes in naming practices based on European influence and loss of social identity and relationship to land; role of the church and using conversion to Christianity as a condition for inclusion; suggests that policies designed to integrate provide Aboriginal people with some equality but at the expense of their Aboriginal identity and cultural heritage

Is part of

• Citizenship and Indigenous Australians : changing conceptions and possibilities / edited by Nicolas Peterson and Will Sanders,

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction