The Abundant Culture : Meaning and Significance in Everyday Australia Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Future pasts	3
2	The new heroes - inventing a heritage	16
3	Things we want to keep: discovering Australia's cultural heritage	26
4	1974, for example	34
5	Australia and the world in schoolbooks	40
6	The beach, the coast, the signifier, the feral transcendence and pumpin' at Byron Bay	51
7	Laurie and Noeline and Sylvania Waters	61
8	Strictly Stomper - the new Australian films	71
9	Packer cricket	80
10	It's SONY rock and roll: contemporary Oz rock	86
11	The funny country	91
12	Tabloid culture in the 1950s	99
13	Profits from the desert? The Adelaide Festival of the Arts	113
14	Are we what we eat?	124
15	The politics of the Australian tribe: a confidential report by an anthropologist from outer space	133
16	Inventing 'The Economy'	141
17	Words fail us - political language in the 1990s	150
18	Jacking up: styles of protest in Australia	156
19	Making diversity work: the changing cultures of Australian workplaces	163
20	A sporting chance? The governing of Aboriginal sport	187
21	'Life and sweaty': ethnic communities at play	198
22	Doing it with your mates: connecting aspects of modern Australian masculinity	205
23	The mirrored ceiling: fashion and Australian women	220
24	Behind bars - the meaning of zoos	226
	Index	234