Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership
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Author(s)Peter Read
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521774098
ISBN-139780521774093
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank983,909
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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This extraordinary book explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land. Peter Read asks the pivotal questions: What is the meaning of places important to non-Aboriginal Australians from which the Indigenous people have already been dispossessed? How are contemporary Australians thinking through the problem of knowing that their places of attachment are also the places that Aboriginals loved--and lost? And are the sites of all our deep affections to be contested, articulated, shared, foregone or possessed absolutely?