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Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- References -- François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance -- References -- Moving Blackwards: Black Power and the Aboriginal Embassy -- Black Power -- The tents -- Black pride -- The tents -- Black independence -- The tents -- References -- Primary documents -- Newspapers and media sources -- Secondary sources -- Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations -- Feudal transgression: a more elucidatory means of classifying cattle stations -- Intersection between feudal land laws and power -- Pastoralists' governance on the frontier -- Normalised pastoralists' jurisdiction -- Northern pastoral lords over their feudal estate and workers -- The strength of pastoralists' jurisdiction in the face of government legislation -- Non-payment of wages as a source of pastoralists' authority -- Aboriginal transgression -- Conclusion: limits of Aboriginal transgression and ways forward -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary Sources -- Dreaming the circle: indigeneity and the longing for belonging in White Australia -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Resisting the captured image: how Gwoja Tjungurrayi, 'One Pound Jimmy', escaped the 'Stone Age' -- A cultural courtesy -- A snapshot -- Introduction -- The birth of Central Australian tourism -- The language of tourism -- The 'Imperial' tourist gaze -- The 'pioneer' tourist gaze -- The 'anthropological' tourist gaze -- Gwoja Tjungurrayi: the man behind the image -- Displacement and massacre -- Survival and adjustment -- Transmission of knowledge to the next generation -- Unwanted celebrity? -- Holmes: discoverer or myth-maker? -- The meeting -- The name -- Collaboration and escape -- Conclusion -- A postscript -- References

This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. The underlying theme is that of 'transgression', and Michel Foucault's account of the necessary dynamic that exists between transgression and limit. We know what constitutes the limit, not by tracing or re-stating the boundaries, but by crossing over them. By exploring the mechanisms by which limits are set and maintained, unexamined cultural assumptions and dominant ideas are illuminated. We see the expectations and the structures that inform and support them revealed, often as they unravel. Such illuminations and revelations are at the core of the Australian Indigenous histories presented in this collection.