| Description |
291 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Black Inc. Agenda series |
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Black Inc. Agenda series.
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| Contents |
W.E.H. Stanner: the anthropologist as humanist / Robert Manne -- Durmugam: a Nangiomeri -- The dreaming -- Caliban discovered -- 'The history of indifference thus begins' -- The Aborigines -- Continuity and change among the Aborigines -- The Boyer Lectures: After the dreaming: Looking back ; The great Australian silence ; The appreciation of difference ; Confrontation ; Composition -- The Yirrkala land case: dress rehearsal -- Aborigines and Australian society -- Aboriginal humour -- Concluding thoughts from 'Aborigines in the affluent society' |
| Summary |
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as 'The Dreaming' Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale,' regarding the fate of the Aborigines, for which he coined the phrase 'the great Australian silence'. And in his essay 'Durmugam' he provided an unforgettable portrait of a warrior's attempt to hold back cultural change. ?He was such a man,' Stanner wrote. 'I thought I would like to make the reading world see and feel him as I did.' |
| Analysis |
Australian Aboriginal studies |
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Australian essays & speeches (Australia) |
| Notes |
"With an introduction by Robert Manne"--Cover |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
William Edward Hanley Stanner was born in Sydney in 1905. Stanner helped to shape the growth of Australian anthropology, and his principal interest was the peoples of Daly River and Port Keats in the Northern Territory. Until the end of his life, he devoted a great deal of time to securing recognition of Aboriginal rights to land. He was a member of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs and, in 1968, he was the ABC's Boyer Lecturer. He was a founding member of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee. He was appointed to the chair of anthropology at the Australian National University and served as head of the department of anthropology and sociology until his retirement in 1970. He died in 1981 |
| Subject |
Durmugam
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Stanner, W. E. H., 1905-1981.
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Kormilda College
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Anthropology.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Colonization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Australia -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
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| Author |
Manne, Robert (Robert Michael), 1947-
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| LC no. |
2009396133 |
| ISBN |
9780977594924 (paperback) |
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