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Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Labor's Lot

The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action

339 pages, 8 tables, 5 maps  6 x 9  © 1994

Cloth $91.00

ISBN: 9780226676739   Published April 1994

Paper $27.00

ISBN: 9780226676746   Published May 1994

List of Maps and Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part One - Setting Up Labor-Action: Legitimate Law, Identity, History
1. Legal Entanglements
Aboriginal Action and Identity
2. Positioning Aborigines
Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Aboriginal Pasts
Part Two - Assessing Labor-Action: Dreaming, Development, Knowledge/Power
3. Labor's Lot
The Construction of Human Bodies and the Countryside
4. "Today We Struggle"
Contemporary Hunting, Fishing, and Collecting and the Market
5. "Being There"
Dreaming and Development as Political Frames for Land Use
6. The Assessment of Cultural Identity and Political-Economic Practice
A Conclusion
Appendixes
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Subjects



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