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Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology : the politics and poetics of an ethnographic event / Patrick Wolfe.

Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology : the politics and poetics of an ethnographic event / Patrick Wolfe.
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ISBN 0304703397 (hardcover)
0304703400 (paperback)
Author Wolfe, Patrick, 1949- (author)
Title Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology : the politics and poetics of an ethnographic event / Patrick Wolfe.
Publisher and/or associated date/s London ; New York : Cassell, 1999.
Description 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Writing past colonialism series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-241) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subjects Colonisation
Religion
Religion - Totemism
Anthropology - Theory and criticism
Settlement and contacts - Settlers
Social organisation - Kinship - Matrilineal systems
Race relations - Representation
Social identity - Aboriginality
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- History
Anthropology -- Australia -- History
Anthropology -- Australia -- Philosophy
Racism in anthropology -- Australia
Aboriginal Australians -- Public opinion
Public opinion -- Australia
Imperialism
Australia -- Foreign relations
Series Writing past colonialism series
Call number 2022.088
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