Power, Knowledge, & Aborigines

Special edition of the TJournal of Australian Studies' containing a collection of essays concerned with European Australians' ways of knowing Aborigines. Covers topics such as primitivism, nationalism and individualism in Australian popular culture and functionalism and historicism in colonial ethnography. Gives an overall critique of Aboriginalism based on assumptions on the nature of knowledge and power drawn from the work of Michael Foucault and Edward Said. Published in association with the National Centre for Australian Studies.Attwood, Bain is the author of 'Power, Knowledge, & Aborigines' with ISBN 9781863240130 and ISBN 1863240136.