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Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community

Culture, Place and Narrative

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  • © 2014

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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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

About the author

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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