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An appreciation of difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia / edited by Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett.

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Field name	Details
Title	An appreciation of difference WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia / edited by Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2008.
Description	Electronic resource ; Online.
Publication Dates	2008.
Note	Reproduction Note: Monograph. Melbourne, Vic. RMIT Publishing. 2012.
Conditions of access	Available to Museum Staff only.
Summary	WEH Stanner was a public intellectual whose work reached beyond the walls of the academy, and he remains a highly significant figure in Aboriginal affairs and Australian anthropology. Educated by Radcliffe-Brown in Sydney and Malinowski in London, he undertook anthropological work in Australia, Africa and the Pacific.::Hinkson and Beckett have drawn together some of Australia's leading academics working in Aboriginal studies to provide an historical and analytical context for Stanner's work, as well as demonstrating the continuing relevance of his writings in the contested field of Aboriginal affairs.
Subjects	Stanner, W. E. H.(William Edward Hanley),1905-1981
	Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
	Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
	Anthropologists -- Australia -- Biography
Call number	Informit database (IIC)
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