Reconfiguring indigeneity in the mainland Gulf country
Mimicry, mimesis, and the colonial exchange of difference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11619250 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Martins (0000-0001-5600-1860, The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Richard J Martin (0000-0003-2478-5239, The University of Queensland) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-73 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Australian Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-8811 • E-ISSN: 1757-6547 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/taja.12124 |
| OpenAlex | W2061745075 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 30 |
This paper explores the meaning of indigeneity in the southern Gulf country by focusing upon a group of Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people who claim as a common ancestor a pioneering non‐Aboriginal pastoralist. This early settler established a large cattle property on the Northern Territory/Queensland border at the end of the nineteenth century, where he participating in frontier violence as well as attempts to resolve such violence and promote more peaceable relations through various kinds of exchange, including the common‐law marriage of his part‐Aboriginal son to the daughter of a local Aboriginal leader. Drawing on Taussig's reflections on the economy of mimesis and alterity in colonial exchange, I analyse the ways in which different kinds of connections to the property in question have been phrased by Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal descendants of this man, as well as other local people, from first settlement in the 1860s through to the contemporary moment, when multiple and overlapping assertions of indigenous belonging by Aboriginal people intersect with articulations of an emergent autochthony amongst non‐Aboriginal Australians with long histories of residence in the area
Ancestor · Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Frontier · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · Livestock · Mainland · Pastoralism · Property (philosophy · Residence · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Ecology
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Violence and the Sacred
Native Title in Australia
Indigeneity and autochthony
Introduction
Strange Relatives
Bad Habits
A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa
Hybrid Geographies
Staircases, pyramids and poisons
The White Man's Burden
Indigenous Articulations
The Cunning of Recognition
Postcolonial Developments
Time, indigeneity, and peoplehood
The Perception of the Environment
Tactility and Distraction
Indigenous peoples' rights and the politics of the term 'indigenous
Indigeneity
The Return of the Native
The Idea of Indigenous People
Racial ideologies in Australia's Gulf Country
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |