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Author Povinelli, Elizabeth A., author.

Title The cunning of recognition : indigenous alterities and the making of Australian multiculturalism / Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 338 pages) : illustrations
Series Politics, history, and culture
Politics, history, and culture.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index
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Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
Aboriginal Australians -- Claims
Multiculturalism -- Australia
Arrernte -- Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
Larrakia -- Laragiya -- Gulumirrgin people (N21) (NT SD52-04)
Sex relations
Social organisation -- Kinship -- Systems
73.40 social structure: general (ethnology)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
Aboriginal Australians -- Claims.
Multiculturalism -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity
Multiculturalism
Race relations
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Multiculturele samenlevingen.
Aborigines.
SUBJECT Australia -- Race relations
Subject Belyuen -- Delissaville (Cox Peninsula NT Top End SD52-04)
Australia -- Race relations.
Australia
Genre/Form Claims
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822383673
0822383675