Indigenous Australians and German Anthropology in the Era of ‘Decolonization’

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8959231
AutoresMatthew P Fitzpatrick (0000-0001-6642-2319, Flinders University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen63
Número3
Páginas686-709
Fecha de publicación2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x19000384
OpenAlexW2977469738
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas41

Decolonizing history and anthropology is often presented as a theoretical enterprise, through which a more rigorous and inclusive framing of historical precepts will deliver a clearer and less Eurocentric understanding of the past. Yet it is arguably necessary to decouple decolonization from the broader practices of anti-Eurocentric historiography. Via an empirical assessment of the legacy of Hermann Klaatsch, a German anthropologist working on the colonial frontier, this article examines the possibilities and limitations of a decolonizing approach to settler colonial history. The article reflects upon its own study of colonial anthropology and the historical complexity of the repatriation of Indigenous human remains, and suggests that not all anti-Eurocentric interrogations of the colonial past are synonymous with decolonization

Archaeology · Colonialism · Decolonization · Ethnology · Frontier · German · Historical anthropology · Historiography · Indigenous · Political science · Repatriation · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law