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The cunning of recognition : indigenous alterities and the making of Australian multiculturalism / Elizabeth A. Povinelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Povinelli, Elizabeth A.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Politics, history, and culture.
- Politics, history, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Ethnic identity.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians--Claims.
- Multiculturalism--Australia.
- Multiculturalism.
- Australia--Race relations.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A critique of liberal multiculturalism through a study of state-aboriginal relations in Australia, employing an innovative hybrid of theoretical approaches from anthropology, political theory, linguistics, and psychoanalysis.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Critical Common Sense
- 1. Mutant Messages
- 2. The Vulva Thieves (Atna Nylkna): Modal Ethics and the Colonial Archive
- 3. Sex Rites, Civil Rights
- 4. Shamed States
- 5. The Poetics of Ghosts: Social Reproduction in the Archive of the Nation
- 6. The Truest Belief Is Compulsion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920226
- 9781282920224
- 1282920227
- 9780822383673
- 0822383675
- OCLC:
- 850217412
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