Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology : the politics and poetics of an ethnographic event / Patrick Wolfe
- Bib ID:
- 2841056
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wolfe, Patrick, 1949-
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Cassell, 1999
- 246 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0304703400 (paperback)
- 0304703397 (hardback)
- Series:
- Writing past colonialism series.
- Summary:
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Examination of the relationship between early anthropological texts on Aboriginal society and colonial polices; historical background to evolutionary anthropology - discusses the work of Bachofen, Frazer, Lang, McLennan, Morgan, Maine, Morgan and Tylor; theories on conception beliefs, marriage and totemism; construction of authenticity and temporality in anthropological structural-functional discourse.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Text and Context: Anthropology and Settler Colonialism
- Ch. 1. White Man's Flour: Virgin Birth in Anthropology and in Australian Settler Discourse
- Ch. 2. Science, Colonialism and Anthropology: The Logic of a Global Transformation
- Ch. 3. Mother-Right: Sex and Property in Victorian Anthropology
- Ch. 4. Totemism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Victorian Anthropology's Eternal Dichotomy
- Ch. 5. Survival in a Paradigm Shift: E. B. Tylor and the Problem of the Text
- Ch. 6. Repressive Authenticity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-241) and index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Public opinion
- Anthropology -- Australia -- History
- Anthropology -- Australia -- Philosophy
- Racism in anthropology -- Australia
- Public opinion -- Australia
- Imperialism
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- History
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Social organisation - Kinship - Matrilineal systems
- Race relations - Representation
- Colonisation
- Anthropology - Theory and criticism
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Religion - Totemism
- Australia -- Foreign relations
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