Encounters with Indigeneity male author a Torres Strait Islander academic

a Torres Strait Islander academic

namely drug and alcohol abuse

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

Encounters with Indigeneity male author a Torres Strait Islander academicFor 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