Promoting Primitivism: Conservationist Depictions of Aboriginal Australians1
- 1 August 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Australian Journal of Anthropology
- Vol. 2 (2) , 233-246
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.1991.tb00139.x
Abstract
Aborigines, like native Americans and others, face the unending task of resisting attempts, on the one hand to cut them off from their ‘heritage’, and on the other to bury them within it as ‘a thing of the past’ (Beckett 1988: 212).This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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