Telling the truth about Aboriginal history

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Label

Telling the truth about Aboriginal history

Statement of responsibility

Bain Attwood

Creator

• Attwood, Bain, 1956-

Subject

• Anthropology - Theory and criticism
• Australia -- Historiography
• Australia -- History
• Windschuttle, Keith, 1942-
• Humanitarianism
• Land rights - Non-Indigenous
• History
• Blainey, Geoffrey, 1930-
• History - Oral history
• Settlement and contacts - Settlers
• Aboriginal Australians -- History
• Race relations - Reconciliation
• Reynolds, Henry
• Race relations - Violent
• Race relations - Violent - Genocide
• Reynolds, Henry, 1938-
• Government policy - Assimilation
• Australia -- Race relations
• Race relations - Representation - History
• Culture - Relationship to land
• Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Memorials and commemorations
• Colonisation

Language

eng

Summary

Examination of the contemporary debates over the nature of the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal society; background to the "History Wars" - origins of the controversy; extended critique of the work of Windschuttle; historians and history in the public sphere - the construction of colonial history and national identity - role of Aboriginality; development of the new Australian history; politicisation and the interpretations of the Keating and Howard governments; democratic history and the historigraphic importance of the frontier; development and forms of Aboriginal history - Captain Cook narratives, memorial, life story, ethical, public intellectual and autobiographical discourse; discussion of the work of Windschuttle - purpose and critical reception; analysis of the concept and meaning of "genocide" (Windschuttle, Ryan and Reynolds) in Australia - Risdon Cove, massacre history and warfare; nature of colonial society - rule of law, historicism as justification; historiography of the Australian frontier - realism, distancing and its cost; treatment and status of memory and oral history - Bells Falls George; approaches to the representation of trauma; ways of dealing with the past - critique of the concept of reconciliation history - approaches of the Council of Reconciliation, treaty, constitutional reform, mourning

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

994.0049915

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography