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Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals that the Moravian missionaries' attempts to "civilize" the Wergaia-speaking people of northwestern Victoria centered on spatial practices, housing, and the consumption of material goods. After the mission closed in 1904, white observers saw the camp settlements that formed nearby as evidence of Aboriginal incapacity and immorality, rather than as symptoms of exclusion and poverty. Conceptions of transformation as acculturation survived in assimilation policies that envisioned Aboriginal people becoming the same as whites through living in European housing. These ideas persist in archaeological analysis that insists on Aboriginality as otherness and difference and equates objects with identity. However, Wergaia tradition was place-based, and, often invisibly, indigenous people maintained traditional relationships to kin and country, resisting white authority through strategies of evasion and mobility. This study examines the complex role of material culture and spatial politics in shaping colonial identities and offers a critique of essentialism in archaeological interpretation. "Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals that the Moravian missionaries' attempts to "civilize" the Wergaia-speaking people of northwestern Victoria centered on spatial practices, housing, and the consumption of material goods. After the mission closed in 1904, white observers saw the camp settlements that formed nearby as evidence of Aboriginal incapacity and immorality, rather than as symptoms of exclusion and poverty." "Conceptions of transformation as acculturation survived in assimilation policies that envisioned Aboriginal people becoming the same as whites through living in European housing. These ideas persist in archaeological analysis that insists on Aboriginality as otherness and difference, and equates objects with identity. However Wergaia tradition was place-based, and, often invisibly, Indigenous people maintained traditional relationships to kin and country, resisting white authority through strategies of evasion and mobility. This study examines the complex role of material culture and spatial politics in shaping colonial identities and offers a critique of essentialism in archaeological interpretation."--Jacket CONTENTS......Page 8 PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 10 ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 16 Ch01. “THEY COVET NOT MAGNIFICENTHOUSES, HOUSHOLD-STUFF”......Page 20 Ch02. ORIENTING THE WERGAIA......Page 58 Ch03. EBENEZER, FOR EXAMPLE......Page 98 Ch04. SPACE, POWER, AND THE MISSION-HOUSE......Page 122 Ch05. “ALL THESE LITTLE THINGS”:MATERIAL CULTURE AND DOMESTICITY......Page 144 Ch06. AFTER THE MISSION CLOSED:ANTWERP 1904–1930......Page 194 Ch07. THE OUTSKIRTS OF CIVILIZATION......Page 216 Ch08. “A HANDLE OF A CUP”:CHANGING VIEWS OF THE MISSIONS......Page 266 REFERENCES......Page 296 INDEX......Page 330 ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 340 CONTENTS 8 PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 10 ILLUSTRATIONS 16 Ch01. “THEY COVET NOT MAGNIFICENTHOUSES, HOUSHOLD-STUFF” 20 Ch02. ORIENTING THE WERGAIA 58 Ch03. EBENEZER, FOR EXAMPLE 98 Ch04. SPACE, POWER, AND THE MISSION-HOUSE 122 Ch05. “ALL THESE LITTLE THINGS”:MATERIAL CULTURE AND DOMESTICITY 144 Ch06. AFTER THE MISSION CLOSED:ANTWERP 1904–1930 194 Ch07. THE OUTSKIRTS OF CIVILIZATION 216 Ch08. “A HANDLE OF A CUP”:CHANGING VIEWS OF THE MISSIONS 266 REFERENCES 296 INDEX 330 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 340 0759111057,9780759111059,0759111049,9780759111042 AltaMira Press Images "They covet not magnificent houses, houshold-stuff" Orienting the Wergaia Ebenezer, for example Space, power, and the mission-house "All these little things" : material culture and domesticity After the mission closed : Antwerp, 1904-1930 "The outskirts of civilisation," 1930-1960s "A handle of a cup" : changing views of the missions.

focusing On The Archaeological Investigation Of A Moravian Mission In Southeastern Australia, The Traditional Country Of The Wergaia-language Speakers,fantastic Dreaming Examines How Spatial Organization, The Consumption Of Western Goods, And The Practices Required By Domesticity Were Used To Transform Aboriginal People.