HSY2260

Australian Aboriginal History

(ART)

Bain Attwood

6 points + 2-3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton + Prerequisites: A first-year sequence in History or permission + Prohibition: HSY3260

Synopsis: This subject will consider relations between indigenous and non-Aboriginal people in Australia since 1770. The main topics will include the legal basis of British sovereignty; the nature of frontier contact; violence and the dispossession of Aborigines; Aboriginal depopulation; Aborigines' responses to colonialism; 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 historical discourses.

Assessment: Document exercise (1500 words): 25% + Essay (2000 words): 40% + Examination (1000 words): 25% + Tutorial participation: 10%