Unmaking Angas Downs : myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station
Palmer, Shannyn2022
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A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern Territory. Some stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction of what has happened there. Like all places it has accrued people and stories, in multiple layers, over time. Listening to Tjuki Tjukanku Pumpjack and Sandra Armstrong, two Anangu with deep and abiding connections to Angas Downs, a very different kind of place emerges from that conjured in myths and histories of pioneers and pastoralists that have shaped understandings of the past in Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory.
Main title:
Author:
Palmer, Shannyn, author
Imprint:
Carlton, VIC : Melbourne University Press, 2022.©2022
Collation:
xv, 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly colour), portraits, map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
97805228783879780522878387
Dewey class:
994.2
Language:
English
Subject:
Settler colonialism -- Australia, CentralPastoral systems in literature -- Australia, CentralPastoral systems -- Northern Territory -- Angas Downs -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- Food -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Angas DownsHuman ecology in literatureAustralia, Central -- HistoryAngas Downs Station (N.T.) -- History
BRN:
518984
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - History | 994.2 PAL | Available |