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On Being Woken Up: The Dreamtime in Anthropology and in Australian Settler Culture

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Patrick Wolfe
Patrick Wolfe
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University of Melbourne
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In the wake of decolonisation, an increasing number of analyses turned the ethnographic gaze onto anthropology itself. Humbler postcolonial strategies emerged, designed to democratise anthropology's intercultural staging by means of an exchange of dialogue (Crapanzano 1977, 1980; Dwyer 1977, 1982). Though sensitive to the backdrop of neocolonialism, however, these strategies largely ignored anthropology's own cultural genealogy in favour of a more particularistic focus on the scene of ethnographic interaction.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 197 - 224
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1991

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