Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Becket, Jeremy
  • 2. Myth, history and a sense of oneself / Maddock, Kenneth
  • 3. The construction of identity / Jacods, Jane M.
  • 4. Aboriginality in New South Wales: beyond the image of cultureless outcasts / Creamer, Howard
  • 5. The politics of identity: from Aborigines to the first Australian / Morris, Barry
  • 6. The materials for identity construction / Cowlishshaw, Gillian K.
  • 7. Aboriginal identity: uses of the past, problems for the future? / Jordan, Deidre F.
  • 8. Writing black: the construction of an Aboriginal discourse / Ariss, Robert
  • 9. The past is a doctrine of person / Sansom, Basil
  • 10. Middle Australia and the noble savage: a political romance / Rowse, Tim
  • 11. The moment of Aboriginal history / Coltheart, Lenore
  • 12. The past and the present; the present in the past: constructing a national Aboriginality / Beckett, Jeremy.