Social Identifications in Aboriginal Australia

澳大利亚原住民的社会认同

• 批准号: 9630155
• 负责人: Elizabeth Povinelli
• 金额: $ 2.87万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9630155&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Identifications; Aboriginal; Australia

This project involves the research of a cultural anthropologist studying the social identities of Australian Aborigines as they are influenced by the Australian government's and legal system's attempt to reincorporate them into a multi-cultural state. Using techniques of legal-case analysis and socio-linguistic and narrative analysis, as well as participant observation, the investigator will study how national ex-colonial systems of law impact upon `traditional` subordinate peoples, reshaping the very identities of subordinate peoples as they try to incorporate them into a more representative socio-political system. The specific focus of the study is the Australian `Native Title Act` which attempted to provide native titles for unalienated lands, so long as the claimants could demonstrate `traditional` native identity. The project will analyze how native people cope with, resist and reshape state programs which attempt to redefine the natives into the dominant society's image. This research is important because it addresses a significant issue in our time, that of the relationship between state power and local identity. Advances in our understanding of the effects of well-meaning programs such as the Australian land title program on the cultural identities of the focus populations can help clarify issues in comparable programs such as affirmative action programs in the US, or linguistic-cultural rights issues in Canada.

该项目涉及一名文化人类学家的研究，研究澳大利亚土著人的社会特性，因为他们受到澳大利亚政府和法律的制度的影响，试图将他们重新纳入一个多文化国家。 调查员将利用法律案例分析、社会语言和叙述分析以及参与者观察等技术，研究国家前殖民地法律制度如何影响`传统的`从属人民，在从属人民试图将其纳入更具代表性的社会政治制度时，如何重塑他们的身份。 这项研究的具体重点是澳大利亚的《土著产权法》，该法试图为未转让的土地提供土著产权，只要索赔人能够证明“传统”土著身份。 该项目将分析原住民如何科普、抵制和重塑试图将原住民重新定义为主导社会形象的国家计划。 这项研究很重要，因为它解决了我们这个时代的一个重要问题，即国家权力和地方认同之间的关系。 我们对善意计划（如澳大利亚土地所有权计划）对重点人群文化身份的影响的理解的进步可以帮助澄清类似计划中的问题，如美国的平权行动计划或加拿大的语言文化权利问题。