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.

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Australia

Anne Marie Monchamp

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Anne Marie Monchamp is an independent researcher currently living in Sydney, Australia. As a former Peace Corps volunteer, she has a keen interest in culture and has done fieldwork in the Australian central desert community of Alpurrurulam. She has an MA in anthropology and a PhD in philosophy.

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Book Title: Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community
Book Subtitle: Culture, Place and Narrative
Authors: Anne Marie Monchamp
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325273
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-32526-6Published: 29 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45929-2Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-32527-3Published: 26 August 2014
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 190
Topics: Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Memory Studies, Sociology, general, Media Studies

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