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Settler Colonialism
About This Book
This work analyzes the politics of anthropological knowledge from critical perspective that alters existing understandings of colonialism. At the same time, it produces insights into the history of anthropology. Organized around an 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 artifact of the anthropological theory that produced it, but also that the anthropology was an artifact of the anthropological theory that produced it, but also that the anthropology concerned has been closely tied into both the historical dispossession and the continuing oppression 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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Credits
- Note on Terminology
- INTRODUCTION: Text and Context: ANTHROPOLOGY AND SETTLER COLONIALISM
- CHAPTER 1 White Man's Flour: VIRGIN BIRTH IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND IN AUSTRALIAN SETTLER DISCOURSE
- CHAPTER 2 Science, Colonialism and Anthropology: THE LOGIC OF A GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION
- CHAPTER 3 Mother-Right: SEX AND PROPERTY IN VICTORIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
- CHAPTER 4 Totemism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: VICTORIAN ANTHROPOLOGY'S ETERNAL DICHOTOMY
- CHAPTER 5 Survival in a Paradigm Shift: E.B. TYLOR AND THE PROBLEM OF THE TEXT
- CHAPTER 6 Repressive Authenticity
- References
- Index