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Professional Savages

2004-01-01 Social Science
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Release : 2004-01-01
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Book Synopsis Professional Savages by : Roslyn Poignant

Download or read book Professional Savages written by Roslyn Poignant. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum called for examples of "all the uncivilized races in existence.” In response, the showman R. A. Cunningham shipped two groups of Australian Aborigines to the United States. They were displayed as "cannibals” in circuses, dime museums, fairgrounds, and other showplaces in America and Europe and examined and photographed by anthropologists. Roslyn Poignant tells the fascinating and often searing story of the transformation of the Aboriginal travelers into accomplished performers, professional savages who survived at least for a short time by virtue of the strengths they drew from their own culture and their individual adaptability. Most died somewhere on tour. A century later, the mummified body of Tambo, the first to die, was discovered in the basement of a recently closed funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio. Poignant recounts how Tambo’s posthumous repatriation stimulated a cultural renewal within the community from which he came, exposing the roots of present social and economic injustices experienced by indigenous Australians.

Paris Savages

2020-07-23 Fiction
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Release : 2020-07-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Paris Savages by : Katherine Johnson

Download or read book Paris Savages written by Katherine Johnson. This book was released on 2020-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fraser Island, 1882. The population of the Badtjala people is in sharp decline following a run of brutal massacres. When German scientist Louis Müller offers to sail three Badtjala people - Bonny, Jurano and Dorondera - to Europe to perform to huge crowds, the proud and headstrong Bonny agrees, hoping to bring his people's plight to the Queen of England.Accompanied by Müller's bright, grieving daughter, Hilda, the group begins their journey to belle-époque Europe to perform in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris and eventually London. While crowds in Europe are enthusiastic to see the unique dances, singing, fights and pole climbing from the oldest culture in the world, the attention is relentless, and the fascination of scientists intrusive. When disaster strikes, Bonny must find a way to return home.

Ngapartji Ngapartji

2014-11-12 Social Science
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Release : 2014-11-12
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Ngapartji Ngapartji by : Vanessa Castejon

Download or read book Ngapartji Ngapartji written by Vanessa Castejon. This book was released on 2014-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe reflect on how their life histories have impacted on their research in Indigenous Australian Studies. Drawing on Pierre Nora’s concept of ego-histoire as an analytical tool to ask historians to apply their methods to themselves, contributors lay open their paths, personal commitments and passion involved in their research. Why are we researching in Indigenous Studies, what has driven our motivations? How have our biographical experiences influenced our research? And how has our research influenced us in our political and individual understanding as scholars and human beings? This collection tries to answer many of these complex questions, seeing them not as merely personal issues but highly relevant to the practice of Indigenous Studies. I think this rich collection will become a landmark text and a favourite within Australian scholarship. I am keen to see it published so that I can recommend it to others — Professor Emerita Margaret Allen, Gender Studies and Social Analysis, University of Adelaide The idea was to explain the link between the history you have made and the history that has made you — Pierre Nora

A Savage Club Souvenir

1916
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Release : 1916
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Book Synopsis A Savage Club Souvenir by : Savage Club, London

Download or read book A Savage Club Souvenir written by Savage Club, London. This book was released on 1916. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prayer, providence and empire

2021-08-10 Political Science
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Release : 2021-08-10
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Prayer, providence and empire by : Joseph Hardwick

Download or read book Prayer, providence and empire written by Joseph Hardwick. This book was released on 2021-08-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European settlers in Canada, Australia and South Africa said they were building ‘better Britains’ overseas. But their new societies were frequently threatened by devastating wars, rebellions, epidemics and natural disasters. It is striking that settlers turned to old traditions of collective prayer and worship to make sense of these calamities. At times of trauma, colonial governments set aside whole days for prayer so that entire populations could join together to implore God’s intervention, assistance or guidance. And at moments of celebration, such as the coming of peace, everyone in the empire might participate in synchronized acts of thanksgiving. Prayer, providence and empire asks why occasions with origins in the sixteenth century became numerous in the democratic, pluralistic and secularised conditions of the ‘British world’.

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