HSY2260

Australian Aboriginal history

(ART)

Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus

8 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton, Caulfield + Prerequisites/Corequisites: Any first-year sequence in history or Koorie studies + Prohibitions: 1994 - HSY2760/3760; 1993 - HSY2760/3760 and HSY2750/3750 (Caulfield); 1992 - HSY2760/3760; 1991 - HSY3750; 1990 - HSY3750

Synopsis: Relations between indigenous peoples and Europeans in Australia since 1770. The legal basis of British 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.

Assessment: Tutorial participation: 10% + Written work, including document exercise (total 1500 words), essay (2500 words): 60% + Examination (2 hours): 30%