The dreaming & other essays / W.E.H. Stanner.
The dreaming & other essays / W.E.H. Stanner.
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Publisher
Melbourne : Black Inc. Agenda, 2009.
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Date
2009.
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305.89915/415
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Language
English
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Physical content
291 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
W.E.H. Stanner: the anthropologist as humanist / Robert Manne -- Durmugam: a Nangiomeri -- The dreaming -- Caliban discovered -- 'The history of indifference thus begins' -- The Aborigines -- Continuity and change among the Aborigines -- The Boyer Lectures: After the dreaming: Looking back ; The gre...
Publication information
Publisher
Melbourne : Black Inc. Agenda, 2009.
Analytical title
After the dreaming.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2009.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as 'The Dreaming' Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale,' regarding the fate of the Aborigines, for which he coined the phras...
Alternative Titles
Full title
The dreaming & other essays / W.E.H. Stanner.
Variant title
Boyer lectures 1968.
After the dreaming.
Other title
The dreaming and other essays.
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Notes
General note
Black Inc. Agenda series.
Black Inc. Agenda series.
Includes index.
"With an introduction by Robert Manne"-- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Biographical note
William Edward Hanley Stanner was born in Sydney in 1905. Stanner helped to shape the growth of Australian anthropology, and his principal interest was the peoples of Daly River and Port Keats in the Northern Territory. Until the end of his life, he devoted a great deal of time to securing recognition of Aboriginal rights to land. He was a membe...
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305.89915/415
Record Identifier
74VvqD3y3OrO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvqD3y3OrO
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ISBN
9780977594924 (pbk.)
DDC
305.89915
MMS ID
991006099019702626
