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Promoting Primitivism: Conservationist Depictions of Aboriginal Australians 1
Author(s) -
Sackett Lee
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
the australian journal of anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1757-6547
pISSN - 1035-8811
DOI - 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1991.tb00139.x
Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , aesthetics , task (project management) , history , sociology , ethnology , art , social science , management , economics
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).