This unit introduces and explores the anthropology of contemporary Indigenous Australia. Underlying the rationale of the lecture program is the view that the contemporary situation of both 'remote' Aboriginal people and urban and suburban communities and kin groups cannot be understood without knowledge of pre-colonial and early colonial cultural, economic and social forms. The unit thus explores current issues against the background of the deep historical perspective of human presence in Australia. A second underlying theme of the unit is that neither Indigenous nor settler Australian societies can be understood without a recognition of their profound historical inter-relation. Lectures... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Daniel Fisher
Prerequisites: 39cp or admission to GDipArtsÂ
