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 |