Subversive jewellery : challenges to conservative power from the Victorian goldfields
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01/01/2012
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Resumo |
This paper analyses a small group of pieces of gold jewellery in order to explore the digger challenge to the colonial culture of conservative deference in 1850s gold rush Victoria. In spending on lavish gold ornaments, lucky diggers asserted the value of their hard, manual labour to subvert the hegemonic respectability of the colonial elite. The brooches offer evidence of values that informed the digger population in its transformation from optimistic transnational transients into civilians who originated the modern form of the Australian middle class. |
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eng |
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National Museum of Australia |
Relação |
DP1093001 http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30046558/young-subversivejewellery-2012.pdf http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/volume_7_number_1/papers/subversive_jewellery |
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2012, National Museum of Australia |
Palavras-Chave | #Australian jewellery #gold digger brooch #goldrush culture #social class #Victoria #19th century |
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Journal Article |