Marking differences : Indigenous cultural tastes and practices

We have identified the main features distinguishing Indigenous cultural tastes and practices from the main and other samples. We have also explored the key respects in which Indigenous tastes are differentiated along gender lines and across the tertiary/non-tertiary divide. In turning now to explore the potential broader significance of these findings, we return to the questions concerning the relations between negative margins and 'the demography of disadvantage' with which we started, and the two different statistical optics informing our concerns in this chapter: marking differences in Indigenous cultural tastes and practices that are open to positive assessments and interpretations, while also considering the light that cultural capital theory can throw on the role that gendered and educational differences of taste play in processes of Indigenous middle-class formation.