National Celebration or Local Act of Reconciliation? Public Ritual Performance and Inter-Ethnic Relations in an Australian City

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7635935
AutoresPatrick Mcallister (0000-0002-0243-1555, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, autor de correspondencia), Patrick McAllister1
Año2009
Volumen19
Número2
Páginas163-183
Fecha de publicación2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664670902980405
OpenAlexW2060813970
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas28

This is a study of the reshaping of Australia Day celebrations in Lismore, a small city in New South Wales, which was motivated by an attempt to make the celebrations inclusive of Indigenous people and to portray the Australian nation as unified rather than divided along lines of race and culture. It shows how and why a group of local people went about reconstructing the Day's events, and how this helped to shape (but not to homogenise) the symbolic messages conveyed. The analysis demonstrates how the specific changes were located structurally both in local initiatives concerning the relationship between Indigenous and White Australians, and also in a wider State and Federal context affecting this relationship. The nature and significance of the changes made to Australia Day are analysed by drawing on the anthropology of performance and other work on public ritual

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