The farmer and the Bushman

Read, P; Wyndham, M

The farmer and the Bushman

Read, P Wyndham, M

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Citation:: Environment and History, 2001, 7 (1), pp. 109 - 124
Issue Date:: 2001-01-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Read, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wyndham, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6496-8753	en_US
dc.date.issued	2001-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Environment and History, 2001, 7 (1), pp. 109 - 124	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0967-3407	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/136192
dc.description.abstract	We identify two distinct forms of masculinity, Australian and Cuban. The first is best expressed in the nineteenth century bushman's ballads, which celebrated wandering, mateship, independence of bosses, sardonic acceptance of fate, the absence of women and uninterest in the physical landscape. The values of the Cuban guajiro or rural labourer, expressed in the songs of the first half of the twentieth century, celebrated permanence, individualism, a heroic acceptance of fate, the presence of women and a deep attachment to the physical landscape. The differing physical landscapes, the one arid and unforgiving, the other lush and productive, compounded their British and Spanish cultural origins to create two powerful rhetorics of manhood. Both men and their rhetoric were overtaken, then transformed, by political and environmental developments which were not of their choosing.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Environment and History	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.3197/096734001129342414	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Ecology	en_US
dc.title	The farmer and the Bushman	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	1	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	7	en_US
utslib.for	0502 Environmental Science and Management	en_US
utslib.for	0705 Forestry Sciences	en_US
utslib.for	2103 Historical Studies	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.issue	1	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	7	en_US

Abstract:

We identify two distinct forms of masculinity, Australian and Cuban. The first is best expressed in the nineteenth century bushman's ballads, which celebrated wandering, mateship, independence of bosses, sardonic acceptance of fate, the absence of women and uninterest in the physical landscape. The values of the Cuban guajiro or rural labourer, expressed in the songs of the first half of the twentieth century, celebrated permanence, individualism, a heroic acceptance of fate, the presence of women and a deep attachment to the physical landscape. The differing physical landscapes, the one arid and unforgiving, the other lush and productive, compounded their British and Spanish cultural origins to create two powerful rhetorics of manhood. Both men and their rhetoric were overtaken, then transformed, by political and environmental developments which were not of their choosing.

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