TY  - BOOK
ED  - Hinkson, Melinda
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2008//
TI  - appreciation of difference: W.E.H. Stanner and Aboriginal Australia
ET  - 1. publ.
PB  - Aboriginal Studies Press
CY  - Canberra
KW  - Anthropologists
KW  - Australia
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Social conditions
AB  - "WEH Stanner was a public intellectual whose work reached beyond the walls of the academy, and he remains a highly significant figure in Aboriginal affairs and Australian anthropology. Educated by Radcliffe-Brown in Sydney and Malinowski in London, he undertook anthropological work in Australia, Africa and the Pacific.  Stanner contributed much to public understandings of the Dreaming and the significance of Aboriginal religion. His 1968 broadcast lectures, After the Dreaming, continue to be among the most widely quoted works in the field of Aboriginal studies. He also produced some exceptionally evocative biographical portraits of Aboriginal people. Stanners writings on post-colonial development and assimilation policy urged an appreciation of Indigenous peoples distinctive world views and aspirations"--Provided by publisher
SN  - 9780855756604
LA  - English
N1  - ed. by  Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett
ID  - 587348380
ER  -