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land, culture and identity in settler societies
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"Disputed Territories investigates the significance of land for contesting cultural identities in comparable settler societies. In the regions of Australasia and southern Africa, European visions of landscape and nature have engaged with southern hemisphere environments and the cultures of indigenous peoples. Amid conflicts over land as a material resource, there has also been an intellectual contest over the aesthetic, iconic and cultural meanings of natural forms and species." "Arising from a programme of seminars held at The University of Western Australia, this collection of eminent international authors assembles contributions from anthropology, geography, history and literary studies. The combination of diverse methods and theoretical approaches establishes the ways that land and nature constitute disputed territories in the mind, as well as material resources subject to pragmatic negotiations."--BOOK JACKET.
Setting roots in motion : genealogy, geography and identity -- Hearing grass, thinking grass : postcolonialism and ecology in Aotearoa-new Zealand -- From habitat to wilderness : Tasmania's role in the politicising of place -- Landscape and ideology : picturing Sydney Cove 200 years ago -- Portable landscapes : Thomas Mofolo and John Bunyan in the broad and the narrow way -- The art of country : aesthetics, place and aboriginal identity in north-west Australia -- Meaning and metaphor in Yolngu landscapes, Arnhem Land, northern Australia -- Genocide by cartography : secrets and lies in maps of the south-eastern African interior, 1830-1850 -- Contesting cultural landscapes in South Africa and Australia : comparing the significance of the Kalahari Gemsbok and Uluru-Kata Tjuta national parks -- Ground designs and the new ichnology.
edited by David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.