The author, an anthropologist, reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body - claims that circulate in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites w…
"In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate…
A critique of liberal multiculturalism through a study of state-aboriginal relations in Australia, employing an innovative hybrid of theoretical approaches from anthropology, political theory, linguistics, and psychoanalysis.
This volume explores liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Povinelli draws on 17 years of ethnographic research explaining that, while aboriginal peoples have an official "place" in Australia, they must uphold stereotypically authent…
An arrangement of Bates ethnographic manuscripts originally prepared during work for the Western Australian Government (1904-1912) for a proposed book of the same title; includes detailed editorial commentary concerning arrangement, deletion and sources and an introductory biogr…
