Read, Peter

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READ, Peter

READ, Peter. Australian, b. 1945. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: Australian National University, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Canberra, ACT, Australia, senior research fellow. Publications: A Hundred Years War: The Wiradjuri People and the State, 1988; Charles Perkins: A Biography, 1990; Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places, 1996; A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The Return of the Stolen Generations, 1999; Belonging: Australians, Place, and Aboriginal Ownership, 2000. EDITOR: Down There with Me on the Cowra Mission: An Oral History of Erambie Aboriginal Reserve, Cowre, New South Wales, 1984; (with C. Edwards) The Lost Children: Thirteen Australians Taken from Their Aboriginal Families Tell of the Struggle to Find Their Natural Parents, 1989; (and compiler, with J. Read) Long Time, Olden Time: Aboriginal Accounts of Northern Territory History, 1991; (with I. Donaldson and J. Walter) Shaping Lives: Reflections on Biography, 1992; (with V. Chapman) Terrible Hard Biscuits: A Reader in Aboriginal History, 1996; Settlement: A History of Australian Indigenous Housing, 2000; Haunted Earth, 2003. Address: Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Online address: peter.read@anu.edu.au

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