A Cautious Silence

The Politics of Australian Anthropology

By: Geoffrey Gray

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Paperback | 1 August 2007

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This is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology to examine the forces that helped shaped its formation. Geoffrey Gray reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology as an academic discipline in Australia. He argues that anthropologists had to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of Indigenous life, leading to them being called on to assist government in the control, development and advancement of Australia's Indigenous peoples. Gray's work complements and adds to earlier publications like Wolfe's Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology, McGregor's Imagined Destinies and Anderson's Cultivating Whiteness.

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Geoffrey Gray is a research fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and an honorary research associate at the School of Historical Studies at Monash University.

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"I expect that this book will generate considerable debate, round out opinions and add new interpretations...Let the stories be told." --Diane Bell Professor Emerita, George Washington University, USA; Professor of Anthropology, University of Adelaide

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography History Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History

Introduction
Problematising the Native
The measurement of people
Help us to convince governments of our value
Researchers will not 'cause difficulties in the field or after'
Mr Neville did all in his power to assist
A deep-seated aversion or a prudish disapproval?
Preserving Aborigines?
It is not possible for conditions to remain as they are
Managing the impact of war
There is no point sniping at the government
Index
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