![]() | Caging the Rainbow: Places Politics, and Aborigines in a North Australian Town Subjects: Australian aborigines -- History; Australian aborigines -- Social conditions; Australian aborigines -- Government relations; Human territoriality -- Australia -- Katherine (N.T.); Spatial behavior -- Australia -- Katherine (N.T.); Geographical perception; Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and theory to grapple with issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. Throughout, the vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them and the ethical problems this poses are kept in view. Merlan Francesca : Francesca Merlan is professor of anthropology at the Australian National University. |
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