A Cautious Silence: The politics of Australian anthropology

By Geoffrey Gray

In his work, Geoffrey Gray reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology in Australia as an academic discipline. He argues that to do so, anthropologists had to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of Indigenous life. Thus they were able, and called on, to assist government in the control, development and advancement of Indigenous peoples. This is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology which examines the forces that helped shape its formation. Gray aims to help us understand the present organisational structures, and assist in the formulation of anthropology's future role in Australia; to provide a wider political and social context for Australian social anthropology, and to consider the importance of anthropology as a past definer of Indigenous people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0855755512
• ISBN13: 9780855755515
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"