Savage imaginings

Description:

This book explores the dominant discussions in Australian Aboriginal history. Its central tenet is that European textual representations of Aboriginal Australians have characteristically involved images and imaginings of primitivism, great antiquity and sameness. The author argues that Aboriginal-focussed museum displays, textual studies and photo-essays have reduced Aboriginal culture to a moment frozen in pre-contact time.

subjects: Ethnic identity,  Public opinion,  Attitudes,  Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures,  Aboriginal Australian Business enterprises,  Aboriginal Australians,  Historiography,  Museum exhibits,  Ethnological museums and collections

Places: Australia