ABSTRACT

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork this is a vital addition to the literature on alcohol use and problem drinking, social change and postcolonialism.From Hunting to Drinking reveals the social change witnessed over a period of 30 years by an anthropologist on Mornington Island, off the North Queensland Coast, Australia, most notably the devastating effects that alcohol has had on this community.

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|9 pages

Policies and practices

Putting Aborigines ‘in their place'

chapter 6|12 pages

‘Try-ask' and ‘knock-back'

chapter 7|15 pages

The Snake

chapter 8|22 pages

The Shire and the canteen

chapter 10|10 pages

Childhood and formal education

chapter 11|6 pages

Law and the police

chapter 12|25 pages

The built environment

chapter 14|23 pages

Why isn't something done?

chapter 15|5 pages

Conclusions