The University of Queensland

Land and identity: comparative studies of belonging in Australia's Gulf Country (2012–2016)

Abstract:

The project is a comparative study of Aboriginal and broader Australian senses of belonging to land and place. Are landforms, flora and fauna made central to both 'Indigenous' and 'non-Indigenous' ideas about who and what can 'belong' in Australia? The study proposes comparative anthropological investigations across three linked themes: flexibility and change in Aboriginal claims for an indigenous identity entwined with land and nature; cultural investments held by non-Aboriginal people in significant places and environments; and overlapping and contested understandings about which plants and animals 'belong' in a relatively young post-Settler society.

Grant type:

ARC Discovery Projects

Researchers:

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  Emeritus Professor David Trigger

  Emeritus Professor
  

  School of Social Science

  Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Funded by:

Australian Research Council