Culture Crisis: Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1742232256 ISBN 13: 9781742232256

Publisher: University of New South Wales Press, 2010

Synopsis

Written by Australia’s leading anthropologists, this valuable examination explores the Australian government’s intervention in terms of health, safety, and education of the nation’s remote Aboriginal citizens via the Northern Territory National Emergency Response. Dissecting the notion of difference and probing the idea of indigenous disadvantage and autonomy, this record questions the role of anthropology in provoking policy change and unflinchingly confronts the policies that have failed these communities. An urgently needed dialogue, this account argues that anthropology can still provide hope.

About this title

About the Author:

Jon Altman is a social scientist and an Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow at the Center for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Melinda Hinkson is an anthropology professor and the chairman of the Visual Culture Research program at the Australian National University. She is the coeditor of An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia. They are the coeditors of Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1742232256
• ISBN 13: 9781742232256
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Altman Jon, Hinkson Melinda