peters-little, curthoys and docker edit passionate histories on myth and memory in indigenous australia

02Oct10

Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker, eds., Passionate Histories: Myth, memory and Indigenous Australia (ANU E-Press, Aboriginal History Monograph 21, 2010).

This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the past lives on in the present, as myth, memory, and history. Each chapter throws fresh light on an aspect of history-making by or about Indigenous people, such as the extent of massacres on the frontier, the myth of Aboriginal male idleness, the controversy over Flynn of the Inland, the meaning of the Referendum of 1967, and the policyand practice of Indigenous child removal.