Povinelli / Steinmetz / Adams The Cunning of Recognition

Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8367-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Povinelli, Elizabeth A.

Steinmetz, George

Adams, Julia

Hunt, Nancy Rose

Keane, Webb

Göcek, Fatma Müge

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

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

Selected Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Labor’s Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action and the editor of the journal Public Culture, also published by Duke University Press.