Aboriginal Health and History

Power and Prejudice in Remote Australia

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Hardcover | 14 June 1993

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The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987-1991) focused attention on the behavioural dimension of Aboriginal health and the lack of appropriate services. This book is a systematic analysis of the sociohistorical and intercultural aspects of mental health in one area of remote Australia, the Kimberley. The author shows how the effects of social disruption, cultural dislocation and loss of power suffered by Aboriginal people have manifested themselves in certain behavioural patterns. The book analyses rising mortality rates from suicide, accidents and homicide amongst Kimberley Aboriginal communities and studies the economic impact of alcohol on these communities. It also considers the role of alcohol in producing violent behaviour and affecting the general level of health.

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"...an important addition to a still small, but growing, library of books on the health of aboriginal peoples of the world." T. Kue Young, Annales CRMCC "...there is much of value here for anyone interested in substance use and abuse, as well as for anyone interested in the impact of European contact on indigenous peoples." Stephen J. Kunitz, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

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Figures	p. xi
Tables	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Caduceus and Clipboard	p. 1
Setting and set	p. 1
The region	p. 1
Guiding frames	p. 4
Methodologies	p. 8
Research: paths and mazes	p. 9
Mortality review	p. 11
Suicides and cells	p. 11
Pilot community surveys	p. 13
Population-based survey	p. 17
Fruitful digressions	p. 21
Notes	p. 23
Time	p. 24
Introduction	p. 24
Acts and actors	p. 26
New arrivals in an old land	p. 35
Exploration	p. 35
Settlement: gold, cattle, pearls, converts	p. 36
Government nomads	p. 47
Opportunity and exclusion	p. 49
Notes	p. 51
Mabarn and Medicine	p. 52
Introduction	p. 52
Dangerous occupations	p. 52
Systems in conflict	p. 54
Perceptions and policy	p. 57
Stigmatised contagions	p. 58
Venereal diseases	p. 58
Leprosy	p. 61
Hospitals and beyond	p. 67
Changing fortunes	p. 72
Notes	p. 75
Mortality in a Time of Change	p. 76
The population	p. 76
The study	p. 78
Findings	p. 80
Discussion	p. 86
Notes	p. 89
Alcohol	p. 90
Introduction	p. 90
Setting	p. 91
Frames	p. 92
Alcohol misuse: theories and consequences	p. 92
In the general population	p. 92
Correlates and consequences	p. 94
In the Aboriginal population	p. 94
Quantitative studies	p. 102
Alcohol 'problems' and impressionistic reports	p. 103
Clinical studies	p. 104
Population studies	p. 105
Aboriginal alcohol consumption in the Kimberley	p. 109
The sample	p. 110
Assessments	p. 110
Questions	p. 111
Results	p. 112
Summary	p. 125
Notes	p. 127
Suicide	p. 133
Introduction	p. 133
Definitions	p. 134
Suicide and indigenous populations	p. 135
Suicide and Aborigines	p. 139
Aborigines: incarceration and suicide	p. 141
The Royal Commission	p. 141
International experience	p. 144
Kimberley suicides in custody	p. 145
Lock-up study	p. 147
Kimberley Aboriginal suicides: 1957-1989	p. 149
Suicides: 1957-1987	p. 150
Suicides: 1988-1989	p. 154
The parental generation	p. 156
Related issues	p. 157
Alcohol and suicide	p. 157
Suicide and Aboriginal social integration	p. 160
Notes	p. 162
Bloodlines: Violence to Self and Others	p. 166
Self-mutilation	p. 166
Ritual mutilation	p. 167
Non-traditional self-mutilation	p. 168
Intentional personal violence	p. 173
Present-day Aboriginal violence	p. 174
Aboriginal personal violence: a paradigm	p. 175
'Mission boys' and 'warriors'	p. 187
Convergences	p. 190
Notes	p. 198
Issues of Identity	p. 200
Introduction	p. 200
Definitions and usage	p. 201
Aborigines and Aboriginality	p. 202
Resilience or stagnation?	p. 202
Levels of continuity	p. 204
Elements of change	p. 209
Contact and conflict	p. 209
Adaptation and survival	p. 210
Assimilation and self-determination	p. 218
Consequences for children	p. 229
Anomie, exclusion and powerlessness	p. 236
Living on the edge: gambling and Aborigines	p. 241
Aboriginal gambling in the Kimberley	p. 243
Summary	p. 251
Notes	p. 252
Structures and Change	p. 254
Sociocultural impositions	p. 254
Imposed constructions	p. 256
Imposed structures	p. 258
Imposed problems	p. 261
Imposed solutions	p. 263
Induced change: 'development' and its vicissitudes	p. 267
Attribution and allied theories	p. 268
Social change and development: a paradigm	p. 270
And Australian Aborigines?	p. 281
Notes	p. 287
References	p. 288
Index	p. 314
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