An Appreciation of Difference : WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia
Melinda. Hinkson
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Canberra : : Aboriginal Studies Press, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (313 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Foreword; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 'Going more than half way to meet them'; 1. 'A chance to be of some use to my country'; 2. Stanner and Makerere; 3. WEH Stanner and the foundation of the Australian Institute; 4. Stanner: Reluctant bureaucrat; 5. Frontier encounter: Stanner's Durmugam; 6. Journey to the source; 7. Stanner's veil; 8. 'Religion, 'magic, 'sign' and 'symbol'; 9. 'Joyous maggots'; 10. Indigenous songs as 'operational structures; 11. Stanner and Aboriginal land use; 12. 'Too sociological'?; 13. Stanner, Milirrpum, and the Woodward Royal Commission. - 14. Counting the cost15. WEH Stanner and the historians; 16. After the Dreaming; 17. From 'After the Dreaming'; Index. - WEH Stanner contributed much to public understandings of the Dreaming and the significance of Aboriginal religion. His 1968 broadcast lectures, After the Dreaming, continue to be among the most widely quoted works in the field of Aboriginal studies. He also produced some exceptionally evocative biographical portraits of Aboriginal people. Stanner's writings on post-colonial development and assimilation policy urged an appreciation of Indigenous people's distinctive world views and aspirations.
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| Emner | Stanner, W. E. H. : (NO-TrBIB)90271511
Stanner, W. E. H., 1905-1981. Anthropologists --Australia --Biography. Aboriginal Australians --Social life and customs. Aboriginal Australians --Social conditions. australia antropologer antropologi aboriginere sosialantropologi |
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| ISBN | 9780855756604
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