On Being Woken Up: The Dreamtime in Anthropology and in Australian Settler Culture
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- the powers-of-the-written-word
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 33 (2) , 197-224
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500017011
Abstract
In the wake of decolonisation, an increasing number of analyses turned the ethnographic gaze onto anthropology itself. Humbler postcolonial strategies emerged, designed to democratise anthropology's intercultural staging by means of an exchange of dialogue (Crapanzano 1977, 1980; Dwyer 1977, 1982). Though sensitive to the backdrop of neocolonialism, however, these strategies largely ignored anthropology's own cultural genealogy in favour of a more particularistic focus on the scene of ethnographic interaction.Keywords
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