An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia edited by Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers removed. Has protective plastic covering. Book is clean and binding is very good.

WEH Stanner's writings on post-colonial development and assimilation policy urged an appreciation of Indigenous people's distinctive world views and aspirations. 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.

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.

Hinkson and Beckett have drawn together some of Australia's leading academics working in Aboriginal studies to provide a historical and analytical context for Stanner's work, as well as demonstrating the continuing relevance of his writings in the contested field of Aboriginal affairs. (AIATSIS website)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed away.