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Unmaking Angas Downs : myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station

Author :  Shannyn Palmer

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Country
Australia
Publisher
Melbourne University Press, Australia
ISBN 9780522878387
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info xv, 272 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Categories DU - Oceania (South Seas)
Product Weight 430 gms.
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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. Unmaking Angas Downs traces a history of colonisation in Central Australia by tracking the rise and demise of a rural enterprise across half a century, as well as the complex and creative practices that transformed a cattle station into Country. It grapples with the question of how people experience profound dislocation and come to make a place for themselves in the wake of rupture. Angas Downs emerges as a place of dynamic interaction and social life - not only lived in, but also made by Anangu.

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