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ABSTRACTThe article reopens the issue of the supposed absence of historical consciousness among traditionally oriented Aborigines, and reviews Hill's and Turner's attempts to define the difference between myth and history.It then discusses some narratives of colonisation from Western New South Wales, and re‐analyses some Aboriginal stories about Captain Coo

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02493.x

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ABSTRACTThe myth/history and orality/literacy oppositions are interrelated ones, through which Aboriginal culture has been stereotyped as the simple inverse of European. The Dreaming has been seen as antithetical to historical consciousness, as it assimilates contingent events to a pre‐existing order which is objectified in natural features of the landscape. I argue that The Dreaming is one instance of a more general mode of orientation through which a good deal of what we call history — the purposeful acts of living persons and their known forebears — is also memorialised in the landscape. What is specific to Aboriginal sociality is not orality or a mythic mentality, but a particular economy of inscriptive and interpretive practices through which ‘country’ become

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02494.x

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02495.x

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02496.x

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ABSTRACTScholars have recently paid more attention to narratives of colonial contact in Australia, as elsewhere (cf. Hill 1988). Western elements and characters (such as Captain Cook) have been widely documented in Australian Aboriginal narratives which nevertheless are clearly not close accounts of past events. This has promoted reconsideration of the distinction between ‘myth’ and ‘history‘. If we follow Turner's (1988) suggestion that myth is the formulation of ‘essential’ properties of social experience in terms of ‘generic events‘, while ‘history’ is concerned with the level of ‘particular relations among particular events’, we need not restrict ourselves to seeing myth as charter for a social order distinct from western influence. In the paper I examine two stories of cultural and physical survival from the Katherine area, Northern Territory, and seek to identify in them fundamental themes and enduring narrative precipitates of social experience lived in intense awareness of colonial and post‐colonial relationships betw

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02497.x

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ABSTRACTFrom time to time scholars have posed the question: why have Australian Aborigines not developed cargo cults with the same intensity and flamboyance as their Melanesian neighbours? This discussion evades the implications that Aborigines may have been negligent in their cultural production of responses to colonisation, and seeks to engage with some of the responses some Aboriginal people actually have made to colonisation. Focussing on stories of Ned Kelly, and contrasting them with stories of Captain Cook, the suggestion here is that Aboriginal people's search for a moral European communicates the challenging and provocative possibility that coloniser and colonised can share a moral history and thus can fashion a just society.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02498.x

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Economics and the Dreamtime. ByH.G. Butlin.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Pp. xi + 252. Price $A35 paperback, $A90 hardback.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02499.x

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Stars of Tagai: The Torres Strait Islanders. ByNoni Sharp.Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 1993. Pp. xii + 321. Price $A24.95 paperback.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02500.x

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Aboriginal Health and Society: The Traditional and Contemporary Aboriginal Struggle for Better Health. BySherry SaggersandDennis Gray.Sydney: Allen and Unwin. 1991. Pp. xii + 232. $19.95

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02501.x

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From Inside the Women's House: Enga Women's Lives and Traditions. ByAlome KyakasandPolly Wiessner.Illustrated by Albert Wet Ipu. Brisbane: Robert Brown&Associates, 1992. Pp. 183. Price $A14.95.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02502.x

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