A museum is creating a new exhibition titled Culture Under Control: Australia 1840s–1960s. The curator wants to show how government policies historically suppressed Australian Indigenous cultures, and how Indigenous peoples responded in order to protect and renew culture. The exhibition will include a short panel on one policy era (for example, ‘protection’/segregation or assimilation) and a case study of an Indigenous response (for example, organised activism, community-led cultural renewal, or resistance to removal and control).
a. Outline two different ways that one government policy era (such as ‘protection’/segregation or assimilation) suppressed Australian Indigenous cultures. In your outline, refer to one example of material culture and one example of non-material culture.
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In this unit, students explore expressions of culture and ethnicity within Australian society in two different contexts – Australian Indigenous cultures, and ethnicity in relation to migrant groups. Students critically examine the historical suppression and increasing public awareness of Australian Indigenous cultures, and investigate ethnicity as a key sociological category, considering how ethnic identities are formed, experienced, and shaped by various forces.
Students explore the meaning of culture and the distinction between material and non-material culture, focusing on Australian Indigenous cultures. They examine the sociological imagination, analyse representations of Indigenous cultures, investigate historical suppression and Indigenous responses, and evaluate the process of reconciliation and factors influencing public awareness.
the historical suppression of Australian Indigenous cultures through government policies and Indigenous responses to this suppression
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