A cautious silence : the politics of Australian anthropology

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Label

A cautious silence : the politics of Australian anthropology

Title remainder

the politics of Australian anthropology

Statement of responsibility

Geoffrey Gray

Creator

• Gray, Geoffrey G

Subject

• Anthropology -- Research -- Australia
• trueAboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
• trueAnthropology
• trueEthnology -- Australia

Language

eng

Summary

To date no explorations of modern Australian social anthropology examine the forces that helped shaped its formation. Geoffrey Gray's new book reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology in Australia as an academic discipline. He argues that to do so, anthropologists had to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of Indigenous life. Thus they were able, and called on, to assist government in the control, development and advancement of Indigenous peoples

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

306.09

Government publication

federal national government publication

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

general