Unmaking Angas Downs - Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station

Palmer, Shannyn
Unmaking Angas Downs - Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station

Unmaking Angas Downs - Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station

Palmer, Shannyn

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Winner 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for History
A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern Territory

Some stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction of what has happened there. Like all places it has accrued people and stories, in multiple layers, over time. Listening to Tjuki Tjukanku Pumpjack and Sandra Armstrong, two Anangu with deep and abiding connections to Angas Downs, a very different kind of place emerges from that conjured in myths and histories of pioneers and pastoralists that have shaped understandings of the past in Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory.




Unmaking Angas Downs traces a history of colonisation in Central Australia by tracking the rise and demise of a rural enterprise across half a century, as well as the complex and creative practices that transformed a cattle station into Country. It grapples with the question of how people experience profound dislocation and come to make a place for themselves in the wake of rupture.




Angas Downs emerges as a place of dynamic interaction and social life - not only lived in, but also made by Anangu.

Author:   Palmer, Shannyn
Publisher:   Melbourne University Press
ISBN:  

9780522878387


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 August 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
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Winner 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for History
A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern Territory

Some stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction of what has happened there. Like all places it has accrued people and stories, in multiple layers, over time. Listening to Tjuki Tjukanku Pumpjack and Sandra Armstrong, two Anangu with deep and abiding connections to Angas Downs, a very different kind of place emerges from that conjured in myths and histories of pioneers and pastoralists that have shaped understandings of the past in Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory.




Unmaking Angas Downs traces a history of colonisation in Central Australia by tracking the rise and demise of a rural enterprise across half a century, as well as the complex and creative practices that transformed a cattle station into Country. It grapples with the question of how people experience profound dislocation and come to make a place for themselves in the wake of rupture.




Angas Downs emerges as a place of dynamic interaction and social life - not only lived in, but also made by Anangu.

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Author:   Palmer, Shannyn
Publisher:   Melbourne University Press
ISBN:  

9780522878387


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 August 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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