Transgressions: Critical Australian Indigenous histories

by Mark Hannah and Ingereth Macfarlane

This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. The underlying theme is that of 'transgression', and Michel Foucault's account of the necessary dynamic that exists between transgression and limit. We know what constitutes the limit, not by tracing or re-stating the boundaries, but by crossing over them. By exploring the mechanisms by which limits are set and maintained,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921313447
• ISBN13: 9781921313448
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"