Fantastic dreaming
Subtitle: the archaeology of an Aboriginal mission
By: Jane Lydon.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780759111042; 9780759118041
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- Social life and customs; Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Victoria -- History; Material culture -- Australia -- Victoria -- History; Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia -- Victoria; Spatial behavior -- Australia -- Victoria -- History; Aboriginal Australians -- Housing -- Australia -- Victoria -- History; Moravians -- Missions -- Australia -- Victoria -- History; Essentialism (Philosophy); Victoria -- Race relations; Victoria -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Images; title: "They covet not magnificent houses, houshold-stuff"; title: Orienting the Wergaia; title: Ebenezer, for example; title: Space, power, and the mission-house; title: "All these little things" : material culture and domesticity; title: After the mission closed : Antwerp, 1904-1930; title: "The outskirts of civilisation," 1930-1960s; title: "A handle of a cup" : changing views of the missions.