Encounters with Indigeneity male author Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this publication contains names of people who have passed away

Ben Silverstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University

a Torres Strait Islander academic

Noeline Nemit and Sharon Macmillan

namely drug and alcohol abuse

Encounters with Indigeneity male author Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderFor four decades Jeremy Beckett has shone a light on previously marginalised fields of life. While the many went in search of 'traditional culture', Beckett was fascinated to learn how people who often lacked wider recognition of their Aboriginality went about their lives. In the process he changed our understandings of those people and highlighted the issues they confronted. He has enriched our appreciation of the diversity of Indigenous identities