Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History: Understanding Australians Consciousness of the Colonial Past

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Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in rural South Australian settler descendants' historical consciousness as a starting point, 'Memory, Place and Settler-Aboriginal History' combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate how and why the colonial past is known, represented and understood by current generations. The author draws on archival research, interviews, oral histories, fieldwork, site visits and personal experience to closely examine the diverse but interconnected processes through which the past is understood and narrated. Concluding that the colonial era is primarily and most powerfully known through lived experience - through dwelling in place, material objects, family stories and everyday social interaction - this deep history demonstrates how, by unsettling taken-for-granted assumptions, a process of settler-Aboriginal reconciliation can be facilitated.

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In this thought-provoking book Skye Krichauff has introduced us to a particular kind of person. Her important analysis and theory will have wider application.
Paula Jane Byrne, Memory, place and aboriginal-settler history: Understanding Australians' consciousness of the colonial past [Book Review] [online]. Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 20, Jul 2018: [179]181

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Skye Krichauff is an ethno-historian and anthropologist who draws upon archival material, oral histories, fieldwork, site visits and personal experience to research how the historical injustice of Aboriginal dispossession is known, understood and represented by current generations of Australians.