(Paperback)

(Paperback)

"Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Nyungar people of Western Australia strategically and courageously adapted their rich performance culture to survive the catastrophe that engulfed them, and generously share their culture, history and language in theatre."--Back cover.

(Paperback)

A re-evaluation of the experience of assimilation in Australia, providing an assessment of its implications for Australia's indigenous and ehtnic minorities and for immigration and refugee policy.