Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event (Writing Past Colonialism Series)

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Publisher: Cassell
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Edition: 304th
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This work analyzes the politics of anthropological knowledge from critical perspective that alters existing understandings of colonialism. At the same time, it produces fresh insights into the history of anthropology. Organized around a historical reconstruction of the great anthropological controversy over doctrines of virgin birth, the book argues that the allegation a great deal about European colonial discourse and little if anything about indigenous beliefs. By means of an Australian example, the book shows not only that the alleged ignorance was an artefact of the anthropological theory that produced it, but also that the anthropology was an artefact of the anthropological theory that produced it, but also that the anthropology concerened has been closely tied into both the historical dispossesion and the continuing oppresion of native peoples. The author explores the links between metropolitan anthropological theory and local colonial politics from the 19th century up to the present, settler colonialism, and the ideological and sexual regimes that characterize it.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Credits......Page 9
Note on Terminology......Page 10
INTRODUCTION: Text and Context: ANTHROPOLOGY AND SETTLER COLONIALISM......Page 12
CHAPTER 1 White Man's Flour: VIRGIN BIRTH IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND IN AUSTRALIAN SETTLER DISCOURSE......Page 20
CHAPTER 2 Science, Colonialism and Anthropology: THE LOGIC OF A GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION......Page 54
CHAPTER 3 Mother-Right: SEX AND PROPERTY IN VICTORIAN ANTHROPOLOGY......Page 80
CHAPTER 4 Totemism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: VICTORIAN ANTHROPOLOGY'S ETERNAL DICHOTOMY......Page 117
CHAPTER 5 Survival in a Paradigm Shift: E.B. TYLOR AND THE PROBLEM OF THE TEXT......Page 140
CHAPTER 6 Repressive Authenticity......Page 174
References......Page 226
C......Page 253
H......Page 254
M......Page 255
R......Page 256
Z......Page 257

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