The Cunning of Recognition
Subtitle: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (Politics, History, and Culture)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780822328681
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Multicultural studies; Multiculturalism; Australia; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology/Ethnography; Cultural Studies; Political Theory; Aboriginal Australians; Claims; Ethnic identity
Description: This volume explores liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Povinelli draws on 17 years of ethnographic research explaining that, while aboriginal peoples have an official "place" in Australia, they must uphold stereotypically authentic ways of being.