- Title
- "They are among the best workers, learning the ways of a vineyard quickly": Aboriginal people, drinking, and labor in the Early Australian Wine Industry
- Creator
- McIntyre, Julie; Brady, Maggie; Barnes, Jillian
- Relation
- Global Food History Vol. 5, Issue 1-2, p. 45-66
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20549547.2019.1569442
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Studies of the impact of European forms of alcohol on Indigenous peoples tend to focus on health and social problems arising from overconsumption. This article takes a new approach by, first, parsing wine from the non-culturally specific treatment of all forms of alcohol in the lives of Aboriginal Australians; and, second, considering Aboriginal employment in Australian wine production since the early nineteenth century alongside these peoples’ exclusion from the late-twentieth century rise of an Australian “good life” of democratized wine drinking practices. By re-entangling these elements of Aboriginal lives in settler colonial society, we reveal an unknown facet of Aboriginal economic contribution, highlight relationships between Aboriginal- and Italian-Australians, and challenge negative stereotypes that Aboriginal Australians are unable to control themselves in the presence of alcohol.
- Subject
- wine production; wine consumption; indigenous-settler relations; Aboriginal agency
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1415883
- Identifier
- uon:36966
- Identifier
- ISSN:2054-9547
- Language
- eng
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