Australian Aboriginal history
Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus
8 points * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton * Requisites/corequisites: Any first-year sequence in history and Koorie studies * Prohibitions: 1994 - HSY2760/3760; 1993 - HSY2760/3760 and HSY2750/3750 (Caulfield); 1992 - HSY2760/3760; 1991 - HSY3750; 1990 - HSY3750
This subject will consider relations between indigenous peoples and Europeans in Australia since 1770. The main topics will include the legal basis of European sovereignty; the nature of frontier contact including conflict and accommodation; European violence and the dispossession of the indigenes; Aboriginal depopulation; indigenous responses to colonialism including resistance and their relationship to the capitalist economy; European representations of Aborigines; government policy and practice, from segregation to assimilation; and Aboriginal political movements. The subject will simultaneously examine the political and theoretical dimensions associated with representing the Australian/Aboriginal past and, in particular, the relationship between power and knowledge in the discourse of history
Assessment
Tutorial participation: 10% * Written work, including document exercise (1500 words), essay (2500 words) and examination (2 hours): 90%
Prescribed texts
Broome R Aboriginal Australians 2nd edn, Allen and Unwin, 1994
Reynolds H (comp.) Dispossession Allen and Unwin, 1989
Recommended texts
Attwood B and Arnold J Power knowledge and Aborigines La Trobe UP, 1992
Markus A Governing savages Allen and Unwin, 1990
Mulvaney D J and White J P (eds) Australians to 1788 Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, 1987
Reynolds H Frontier Allen and Unwin, 1987
Reynolds H The other side of the frontier Penguin, 1982
Reynolds H With the white people Penguin, 1990