The City's Outback

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This honest and compelling book follows the fraught, exciting and painful process of getting to know 'others', in this case Australian Aborigines in the suburbs who are already 'known' through shocking images and worrying statistics. Gillian Cowlishaw has written a book about the intimacy of the encounter, the practical and ethical dilemmas of research and the fun of engagement in the city's outback.

Author Bio

Gillian Cowlishaw was a former professor of anthropology at Charles Sturt and Sydney University. Her research focuses on relationships between Indigenous and settler Australians in Arnhem land and in rural and urban New South Wales.