Description: Essays toward understanding the relation between changing circumstances and changing lives of indigenous Australians.
Brief description: Diane Austin-Broos is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Sydney
Review Quotes: This important collection brings together recent studies on indigenous Aboriginal Australian personhood, while reflecting on earlier studies that draw attention in different ways. The essays point to the disarticulation of relations of people to the land and to the rituals and cosmologies so central to earlier Aboriginal constructions of socio-personal identities; and equally importantly, they are concerned with changing ways of constructing kinship relations. A very useful review of previous works discussing Aboriginal constructions of person is in the editors' detailed introduction.--Nancy D. Munn, professor emerita of anthropology, The University of Chicago