Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Ambiguity, Style and Kinship in Adelaide Aboriginal Identity
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'In traditional Aboriginal societies identity was rarely ambiguous. Each individual's identity was constituted in the social realm through kinship ties and passage through a variety of distinct roles and statuses. In the spiritual realm through fundamental responsibilities and direct linkages to the Dreaming, and even geographically in binding associations with particular places and regions. When Europeans began to arrive, the traditional social systems, which so clearly established the Identities of Aborigines, were elastic enough to account for (and often Include) these new arrivals, thus overcoming the ambiguity-at least temporarily-of the Europeans' positions In the Aboriginal social order' (Introduction)

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  • Includes bibliography

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    y separately published work icon Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in 'Settled' Australia Ian Keen (editor), Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 1988 9108245 1988 selected work criticism

    'Being black brings together the results of research by a range of renowned anthropologists focusing on the social life of people who used to be labelled 'part-Aborigines' or 'urban Aborigines'. The research cover issues like the basis of identity; the ties of family; the structure of communities; ways of speaking; beliefs and feelings about country, and attitudes to the past.' (Source: Publisher's website)

    Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 1988
    pg. 77-95
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