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Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community

Culture, Place and Narrative

  • Anne Marie Monchamp
Book

Part of the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies book series (PMMS)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Remembering Alpurrurulam
    Anne Marie Monchamp
    Pages 1-21
  3. Opal’s Stories
    Anne Marie Monchamp
    Pages 22-32
  4. ‘Auto’ Is Not Automatic
    Anne Marie Monchamp
    Pages 33-53
  5. ‘Auto’ Is Not Alone
    Anne Marie Monchamp
    Pages 54-73
  6. Translating Memory
    Anne Marie Monchamp
    Pages 74-94
  7. Journey of a Lifetime
    Anne Marie Monchamp
    Pages 95-114
  8. Country, Memory, Culture
    Anne Marie Monchamp
    Pages 115-135
  9. Memory and Dreaming
    Anne Marie Monchamp
    Pages 136-156
  10. Discussion
    Anne Marie Monchamp
    Pages 157-164
  11. Back Matter
    Pages 165-190
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About this book

Introduction

This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective.

Keywords

Aboriginal Australia Memory Autobiographical Colonialism Narrative Self Construal Culture Place Interdependent Allocentric Interdisciplinary community culture memory philosophy

Authors and affiliations

  • Anne Marie Monchamp
    • 1
  1. 1.Australia

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325273
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-45929-2
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-32527-3
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