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- Title
Aboriginal Enterprises: negotiating an urban Aboriginality.
- Authors
Kleinert, Sylvia
- Abstract
The article discusses Aboriginal Enterprises, a business founded by Wiradjuri political activist Bill Onus in 1952 in Belgrave, Victoria, Australia that produced and sold furnishings and artefacts. It comments on cooperation between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians in manufacturing these items and considers the production of boomerangs. It author explores the business in relation to Aboriginality, Aboriginal Australian identity, and colonialism. She also discusses questions of authenticity and tradition in Aboriginal art and explores political aspects of tourism and tourist art.
- Subjects
VICTORIA; ABORIGINAL Enterprises (Company); ABORIGINAL Australian art; ONUS, Bill; TOURISM &; art; ETHNIC identity of Aboriginal Australians; POLITICAL science; TOURISM impact; 20TH century Australian art; BOOMERANGS; WIRADJURI (Australian people); HISTORY
- Publication
Aboriginal History, 2010, Vol 34, p171
- ISSN
0314-8769
- Publication type
Article