Research Catalog

Title

Savage imaginings : historical and contemporary constructions of Australian aboriginalities / Lynette Russell.

Author

Russell, Lynette

Publication

Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Pub., 2001.

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Description

xiii, 134 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This book explores the dominant discussions in Australian Aboriginal history. Its central tenet is that European textual representations of Aboriginal Australians have characteristically involved images and imaginings of primitivism, great antiquity and sameness. The author argues that Aboriginal-focussed museum displays, textual studies and photo-essays have reduced Aboriginal culture to a moment frozen in pre-contact time.

Alternative Title

Historical and contemporary constructions of Australian Aboriginalities

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians > Attitudes
• Aboriginal Australians > Ethnic identity
• Aboriginal Australians > Historiography
• Aboriginal Australians > Public opinion
• Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures
• Aboriginal Australians
• Business enterprises, Aboriginal Australian
• Ethnological museums and collections
• Museum exhibits
• Public opinion > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Australian modernity, post-colonialism and discourses of Aboriginality -- 2. Walkabout: the popular view -- 3. Images of power: colonial relationships and museum representations of Aboriginal Australia -- 4. Koori modernity and corporate identity -- 5. Epilogue: re-presented pasts.

ISBN

1875606939

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Harvard Library