Inga Clendinnen

Selected Writings

James Boyce

• Publisher: La Trobe University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781760641917
• eBook ISBN: 9781743821473
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia's greatest writers and thinkers. This selection covers the full scope of her writing, from Tiger's Eye to Aztecs, from Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. The rich array is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen's life and evolving thought.
Boyce writes that Clendinnen's 'ability to write serious history for a general readership was unrivalled in this country … Her writings are an enduring testament to the truth that while we might "live within the narrow moving band of time we call the present … the secret engine of our present is our past, with its plastic memories, its malleable moralities, its wreathing dreams of desirable futures".'

INDEX

ABC 19, 279, 296

ABC Boyer Lectures 6–7, 19–20, 24, 301

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children 84–7

Bringing Them Home 85

stolen children 24, 85–7

welfare department 87

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) 97

Aboriginal Lawman 82

Aboriginal missions 80–5, 92, 94, 97

Aurukun mission station 80

Jacob Oberdoo on the subject of 82–3

Jesuit mission on the Daly River 82–4

Mondalmi’s mission upbringing 81–2

Palm Island 80, 92, 94

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 6–9, 18, 26–8, 30–6, 54–5, 58–9, 64–6, 75, 77–8, 80, 286 see also Australian colonial history; Baneelon; Barangaroo

assimilation policy 85–6

Be-dia-gal people 55

Boladeree 45, 50, 57

Boorong 48–50, 57

Botany Bay people 30–1, 37, 39, 46

British colonial presence 56–7

Cameragal people 46–7, 51

Colbee 27–8, 30, 34–6, 42, 49–51, 56

colonial law 65, 75–6

colonial social reality 83–6

Daringa 46–7, 50

Dilboong (Barangaroo’s daughter) 50–2

Dingiri, the hunter 79

distinctive history of 23–4

the Dreaming 80, 84

Kayyeemy of Manly 39

Nanbaree 27–8, 39, 56–7

the Ning.cal.ler.bel 67

politics of 37, 41, 56

Warreweer (Baneelon’s sister) 46–7, 56

and weaponry 37–9

Western Australian Aboriginal woman (1801) 6–7, 15–18

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (Townsville) 27–8, 30–6, 38, 42, 45, 50, 69, 88, 92, 97 see also Human Rights Commission; Salvation Army; Townsville Bulletin; Townsville City Council

camping in city parks 89–90, 93–4

Council of E...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• A Note from the Editor
• Introduction
• Encounters in Australia
• Mesoamerican Explorations
• Facing Gorgon
• On History and Writing
• On Life
• Notes
• Sources
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover