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| Record Id: | 44379472 (Australian Library Collections) permalink |
| Author: | Christen, Kimberly A.
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| Title: | Aboriginal business : alliances in a remote Australian town / Kimberly Christen.
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| Edition: | 1st ed.
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| Published: | Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2009, c2008.
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| Description: | xvii, 315 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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| ISBN: | 1930618980 (pa : alk. paper) 9781930618985 (pa : alk. paper)
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| LC Call Number: | GN667.N6
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| Dewey Number: | 338.8/70899915
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| Series: | School for Advanced Research global indigenous politics series School for Advanced Research global indigenous politics series.
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| Summary: | From the vantage point of the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, this book offers new writing and perspectives on the emergence of Aboriginal organisations, and the unfolding of these within town, regional and national contexts. It is an ethnographic snapshot of the Warumungu people, the traditional owners of the country.
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| Contents: | Preface: Opening Business -- 1. Alliance-Making: An Introduction -- Sect. 1. Community Control -- 2. Country Claims -- 3. Managing Mobs -- Sect. 2. Uneasy Alliances -- 4. Constrained Collaborations -- 5. Practical Partnerships -- Sect. 3. Proper Productions -- 6. Negotiating Networks -- 7. Culture Work -- Conclusion: Closing Business.
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| Notes: | Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-304) and index.
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| Subjects: | Business enterprises, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Tennant Creek (N.T.) Warumungu (Australian people) -- Australia -- Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- Economic conditions. Warumungu (Australian people) -- Employment -- Australia -- Tennant Creek (N.T.) Warumungu (Australian people) -- Australia -- Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- Social conditions. Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- Economic conditions. Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- Social conditions.
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| Libraries that have this item: | Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education. Batchelor Campus Library (XBATCH) Held James Cook University. Townsville Campus Library (QJCU) (673538) held National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (4600450) N 338.870899915 C933 ; NL 338.870899915 C933 Northern Territory Library (XNLS) NTC 338.870899915 CHRI ; Not for loan Queensland University of Technology. Kelvin Grove Campus Library (QUT:KG) (.b27634413) kgen 338.870899915 1 State Library of NSW (NSL) held University of New England. Dixson Library (NUNE) (vtls086437068) 338.8/C554a University of Technology Sydney. University Library (NTSM) (.b23929790) held
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