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Op reis door Australië voor een onderzoek naar de cultuur van de Aboriginals komt de auteur tot hoogst opmerkelijke speculaties omtrent de oorspronkelijke nomadische leefwijze van de mensheid.
A story of ideas in which two companions, traveling and talking together, explore the hopes and dreams that animate both them and the people they encounter in Central Australia's almost uninhabitable regions.
A historical ethnography of photographs as a colonial tool and as reappropriated by the indigenous population from the 1860s through the 1920s and in the present.
The contribution of German ethnography to Australian anthropological scholarship on Aboriginal societies and cultures has been limited, primarily because few people working in the field read German. But it has also been neglected because its humanistic concerns with language, re…
"This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining the Aboriginal legal system as it is embedded in Aboriginal people's complex rela…
Little more than 70 years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide - one of the earliest of the modern era - is virtually forgotten in Britain today. 'The Last Man' is the firs…
I lettori di ossa
by Gillespie, Richard, Jones, Cheryl, Tuniz, Claudio, Solito, Alessandra
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Chi possiede il passato? Come si leggono le ossa antiche? E cosa ci dicono sulle nostre origini gli artifatti, il polline e il DNA dell'età glaciale? Usando tecniche sempre più raffinate, gli scienziati riescono a ricostruire gli ambienti del passato profondo e i primi esseri um…
Human Origins" brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have b…
Human Origins" brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have b…
"In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli d…
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…
This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. 'White anti-racists' find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds - a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societie…