Reviews of Aboriginal Business: Alliances in a Remote Australian Town

Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database, 9 March 2010
Christen’s book is a fine contribution to, and model for, this new path of anthropology: anthropologists can and must research those dusty and seemingly boring frontier towns, because they are sites of some of the most important contact, accommodation, and creativity in contemporary culture. I have to admit that the end of Aboriginal Business left me just a little emotional, which is hard to say about a lot of anthropological writing. I heartily recommend Christen’s book to those who are interested in Australian Aboriginal societies, indigeneity and development, 21st-century fieldwork methods, and the possibilities of anthropological literature.

Deborah Breen, Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources, 1 February 2010
Christen presents in Aboriginal Business: Alliances in a Remote Australian Town a focused, complex, and perhaps stubbornly optimistic view of the possibilities that exist when the model of partnership rather than patronage or control frames the relationships between indigenous people and their local, regional, and national communities.