"Blackfella Way" and Aboriginal Identity : A Case Study of Adelaide Aborigines

• KURITA Ritsuko

  Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University

抄録

This article examines the meaning of a distinctive cultural style referred to as "Blackfella Way" as seen in the Aboriginal people in Adelaide, Australia. In earlier studies, "Blackfella Way" was characterized by the notion of "caring and sharing" and was considered to be inherent in urban Aboriginal people. It was clear from the author's case study, however, that a discrepancy exists between discourse on "caring and sharing" and actual practice. Although sanctions were occasionally imposed upon those who were not raised in an Aboriginal environment when their behaviors deviated from "Blackfella Way," that was not the case with Aboriginal people whose kinship connections with the community were strong. Thus, it can be said that "Blackfella Way" is not a self-evident cultural style, but an ideology invoked when the cultural boundary between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people becomes ambiguous and is consequently invoked to reinforce the definition of being Aborigines.

収録刊行物

• Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology

  Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 13 (0), 41-60, 2012

  日本文化人類学会

キーワード

• "Blackfella Way"
• urban Aboriginal people
• identity
• Australia

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390282680764272896
• NII論文ID: 110009597339
• DOI: 10.14890/jrca.13.0_41
• ISSN: 24240494
• ISSN: 24325112
• 本文言語コード: en
• データソース種別:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
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