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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined the phrase 'the great Australian silence'. And in his essay 'Durmugam' he provided an unforgettable portrait of a warrior's attempt to hold back cultural change.The pieces collected here span Stanner's career as well as the history of Australian race relations. They reveal the extraordinary scholarship, humanity and vision of one of Australia's finest essayists. Stanner's writings remain relevant in a time of reckoning with white Australia's injustices against Aboriginal people and the path to reconciliation.With an introduction by Robert Manne'Bill Stanner was a superb essayist with a wonderful turn of phrase and ever fresh prose. He always had important things to say, which have not lost their relevance. It is wonderful that they will now be available to a new and larger audience.' -Henry Reynolds'Stanner's essays still hold their own among this country's finest writings on matters black and white.' -Noel PearsonW.E.H. Stanner: Selected Writings is a re-issue of The Dreaming & Other Essays by W.E.H. Stanner (2011).Table of Contents:Introduction: W.E.H. Stanner: The Anthropologist as Humanist by Robert ManneTable of Contents1. Durmugam: A Nangiomeri2. The Dreaming3. Caliban Discovered4. 'The History of Indifference Thus Begins'5. The Aborigines6. Continuity and Change Among the Aborigines7. The Boyer Lectures: After the Dreaming8. The Yirrkala Land Case: Dress-Rehearsal9. Aborigines and Australian Society10. Aboriginal Humour11. Concluding Thoughts from 'Aborigines in the Affluent Society' One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined the phrase 'the great Australian silence'. And in his essay 'Durmugam' he provided an unforgettable portrait of a warrior's attempt to hold back cultural change.The pieces collected here span Stanner's career as well as the history of Australian race relations. They reveal the extraordinary scholarship, humanity and vision of one of Australia's finest essayists. Stanner's writings remain relevant in a time of reckoning with white Australia's injustices against Aboriginal people and the path to reconciliation.With an introduction by Robert Manne'Bill Stanner was a superb essayist with a wonderful turn of phrase and ever fresh prose. He always had important things to say, which have not lost their relevance. It is wonderful that they will now be available to a new and larger audience.' -Henry Reynolds'Stanner's essays still hold their own among this country's finest writings on matters black and white.' -Noel PearsonW.E.H. Stanner: Selected Writings is a re-issue of The Dreaming & Other Essays by W.E.H. Stanner (2011).Table of Contents:Introduction: W.E.H. Stanner: The Anthropologist as Humanist by Robert ManneTable of Contents1. Durmugam: A Nangiomeri2. The Dreaming3. Caliban Discovered4. 'The History of Indifference Thus Begins'5. The Aborigines6. Continuity and Change Among the Aborigines7. The Boyer Lectures: After the Dreaming8. The Yirrkala Land Case: Dress-Rehearsal9. Aborigines and Australian Society10. Aboriginal Humour11. Concluding Thoughts from 'Aborigines in the Affluent Society' One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined the phrase 'the great Australian silence'. And in his essay 'Durmugam' he provided an unforgettable portrait of a warrior's attempt to hold back cultural change.The pieces collected here span Stanner's career as well as the history of Australian race relations. They reveal the extraordinary scholarship, humanity and vision of one of Australia's finest essayists. Stanner's writings remain relevant in a time of reckoning with white Australia's injustices against Aboriginal people and the path to reconciliation.With an introduction by Robert Manne'Bill Stanner was a superb essayist with a wonderful turn of phrase and ever fresh prose. He always had important things to say, which have not lost their relevance. It is wonderful that they will now be available to a new and larger audience.' -Henry Reynolds'Stanner's essays still hold their own among this country's finest writings on matters black and white.' -Noel PearsonW.E.H. Stanner: Selected Writings is a re-issue of The Dreaming & Other Essays by W.E.H. Stanner (2011).Table of Contents:Introduction: W.E.H. Stanner: The Anthropologist as Humanist by Robert ManneTable of Contents1. Durmugam: A Nangiomeri2. The Dreaming3. Caliban Discovered4. 'The History of Indifference Thus Begins'5. The Aborigines6. Continuity and Change Among the Aborigines7. The Boyer Lectures: After the Dreaming8. The Yirrkala Land Case: Dress-Rehearsal9. Aborigines and Australian Society10. Aboriginal Humour11. Concluding Thoughts from 'Aborigines in the Affluent Society' One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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