| Reference Type |
chapter
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| Title |
On Native Grounds: Australian Writing from Meanjin Quarterly |
| Chapter/Web article title |
The Meaning of Mateship |
| Publication Date |
00-00-1968 |
| Page Number |
p223-231 |
| Comments |
It is an excellent article, which discusses the meanings of mateship from various points of view. Yet, I personally believe that the reader would be better off if they had some basic understandings about the history of mateship in advance. |
| Synopsis |
This essay briefly discusses ten of the different meanings of mateship discivered in the writor's own research. The kinds of mateship examined in the article include the mateship in convicts, larrikins, trade unionists, marxists, bushmen, gold-diggers and miners, fighting servicemen, contemporary city dwellers and the Australian people as a whole. In general, however, the writor divides mateship into two broad types: the exclusice type and the inclusive. According to the article, the exclusive type of mateship is directed against conflicting or alien group in the society, whereas the inclusive one is directed against environmental hardships or directed towards an ideal. Also, the essay critisizes that the lack of recognition of the limitations of mateship and other biases held by some researchers and historians render their analyses of mateship one-sided. Therefore, objective examinations of mateship based on historical truth and contemporary facts are essentical. |
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