Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in Australia

This lively book brings the reader close to the lives of people on a remote cattle station in Australia’s Northern Territory, where black and white people’s lives have been intimately intertwined over the span of eighty years. Gillian Cowlishaw makes startling and original arguments about race relations, showing how the policy of self-determination for Aboriginal peoples has had dramatic and unexpected results.By tracing specific patterns of interaction on Australia’s cultural frontier, this work illustrates how anthropologists, pastoralists, and government officials squabbled about Aborigines as they intruded into these blackfellas'” country