Robert Kenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 628404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Kenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenny |
| SIGNATURE | KENNY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7166-8932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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Before the Field
The introduction to this special issue argues for a reappraisal of colonial anthropology in the broader historiography of British anthropology. It challenges the continuation of the centre–periphery model that has positioned colonial ethnographers and their Indigenous authorities as awkward, peripheral figures in the history of the discipline, and posits that, while the evolutionist tomes of the 19th century are now of purely historical value, th…
Why the Armchair in the First Place? Then Why Get up from It? (And Why Did Some Remain Seated?)
Charles Lyell advised young geologists that to discover the nature of the bigger world required travel. In the field of the natural science this had its exemplars inspired by Humboldt, Darwin, Wallace, Joseph Hooker; in the field of geography it had the model of Cook's explorations. Yet by the mid‐century even in the discipline of geography it was the armchair theorist who held sway. British anthropology came into being at the time the armchair w…
Freud, Jung and Boas
Sigmund Freud's and C. G. Jung's turn to evolutionist anthropological material after 1909 is usually seen as a logical progression of their long-term interest in such material. It is also seen that they used this material ignorant of the significant challenges to the evolutionist paradigm underpinning such material, in particular the challenges led by Franz Boas. This paper argues otherwise: that both psychologists' turnings to such material was …
Inside Australian Culture
I confess to be a partisan on the side of the discipline of History (believing that understanding the past, however imperfectly, is essential to understanding anything living including the human) a
The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
Unconscious Dominions
Protection and Theft
The Last Protector: The Illegal Removal of Aboriginal Children from their Parents in South Australia , by Cameron Raynes (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2009, 120pp, $22.95pb). Publisher’s websites: www.wakefieldpress.com.au/search.php?mode=search&page=1
Tricks or Treats
Against the usual portrayal of the Batman Treaty as a duplicitous act in which the Kulin were uncomprehending of Batman’s intention, a case is made that such views miss the pertinence of the Treaty in revealing the dilemmas of settlement. It is argued that the Kulin who participated did so in the knowledge of the events unfolding for forty years to their north and in so doing may have hoped to accommodate the European and thus limit settlement, a…
From the Curse of Ham to the curse of nature
This paper examines the debate engendered in ethnological and anthropological circles by Darwin's Origin of Species and its effects. The debate was more about the nature of human diversity than about transmutation. By 1859 many polygenists thought monogenism had been clearly shown to be an antiquated and essentially religious concept. Yet the doctrine of natural selection gave rise to a ‘new monogenism’. Proponents of polygenism such as James Hun…
Books
Radical Melbourne: A Secret History. By Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow. Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2001. Pp 223. $44.95 paper. To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity. By Angela Woollacott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 298. $69.95 paper. Making the Australian Male: Middle‐Class Masculinity, 1870–1920. By Martin Crotty. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 301. $38.45 paper. The Murray…
In These Last Dayes’
(1998). ‘In These Last Dayes’: The Strange Work Of Abiezer Coppe. The Seventeenth Century: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 156-184
Molière's Tower of Babel
Mise en evidence de l'unite dramatique de cette comedie-ballet de Moliere qui oppose la confusion de la communication linguistique a l'harmonie de la musique et de la danse
Living, Sulking and Fighting in the Seventies
Before me I have two questionnaires (one directed at me as writer, one as editor and, presumably, publisher) and a letter asking me to contribute 'a piece on little magazines' for this issue of ALS. In my head, and in any activity I have been or am involved inâ indeed any activity I know ofâ it would be, at the least, 'after the fact' to hold these things in separation: the fields they acknowledge are all the one field, fenceless, and though the …
From the Curse of Ham to the curse of nature
This paper examines the debate engendered in ethnological and anthropological circles by Darwin's Origin of Species and its effects. The debate was more about the nature of human diversity than about transmutation. By 1859 many polygenists thought monogenism had been clearly shown to be an antiquated and essentially religious concept. Yet the doctrine of natural selection gave rise to a ‘new monogenism’. Proponents of polygenism such as James Hun…
Inside Australian Culture
I confess to be a partisan on the side of the discipline of History (believing that understanding the past, however imperfectly, is essential to understanding anything living including the human) a
Tricks or Treats
Against the usual portrayal of the Batman Treaty as a duplicitous act in which the Kulin were uncomprehending of Batman’s intention, a case is made that such views miss the pertinence of the Treaty in revealing the dilemmas of settlement. It is argued that the Kulin who participated did so in the knowledge of the events unfolding for forty years to their north and in so doing may have hoped to accommodate the European and thus limit settlement, a…
Living, Sulking and Fighting in the Seventies
Before me I have two questionnaires (one directed at me as writer, one as editor and, presumably, publisher) and a letter asking me to contribute 'a piece on little magazines' for this issue of ALS. In my head, and in any activity I have been or am involved inâ indeed any activity I know ofâ it would be, at the least, 'after the fact' to hold these things in separation: the fields they acknowledge are all the one field, fenceless, and though the …
Molière's Tower of Babel
Mise en evidence de l'unite dramatique de cette comedie-ballet de Moliere qui oppose la confusion de la communication linguistique a l'harmonie de la musique et de la danse
In These Last Dayes’
(1998). ‘In These Last Dayes’: The Strange Work Of Abiezer Coppe. The Seventeenth Century: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 156-184
Books
Radical Melbourne: A Secret History. By Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow. Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2001. Pp 223. $44.95 paper. To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity. By Angela Woollacott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 298. $69.95 paper. Making the Australian Male: Middle‐Class Masculinity, 1870–1920. By Martin Crotty. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 301. $38.45 paper. The Murray…
From the Curse of Ham to the curse of nature
This paper examines the debate engendered in ethnological and anthropological circles by Darwin's Origin of Species and its effects. The debate was more about the nature of human diversity than about transmutation. By 1859 many polygenists thought monogenism had been clearly shown to be an antiquated and essentially religious concept. Yet the doctrine of natural selection gave rise to a ‘new monogenism’. Proponents of polygenism such as James Hun…
Tricks or Treats
Against the usual portrayal of the Batman Treaty as a duplicitous act in which the Kulin were uncomprehending of Batman’s intention, a case is made that such views miss the pertinence of the Treaty in revealing the dilemmas of settlement. It is argued that the Kulin who participated did so in the knowledge of the events unfolding for forty years to their north and in so doing may have hoped to accommodate the European and thus limit settlement, a…
Protection and Theft
The Last Protector: The Illegal Removal of Aboriginal Children from their Parents in South Australia , by Cameron Raynes (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2009, 120pp, $22.95pb). Publisher’s websites: www.wakefieldpress.com.au/search.php?mode=search&page=1
The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
Unconscious Dominions
Freud, Jung and Boas
Sigmund Freud's and C. G. Jung's turn to evolutionist anthropological material after 1909 is usually seen as a logical progression of their long-term interest in such material. It is also seen that they used this material ignorant of the significant challenges to the evolutionist paradigm underpinning such material, in particular the challenges led by Franz Boas. This paper argues otherwise: that both psychologists' turnings to such material was …
Inside Australian Culture
I confess to be a partisan on the side of the discipline of History (believing that understanding the past, however imperfectly, is essential to understanding anything living including the human) a
Before the Field
The introduction to this special issue argues for a reappraisal of colonial anthropology in the broader historiography of British anthropology. It challenges the continuation of the centre–periphery model that has positioned colonial ethnographers and their Indigenous authorities as awkward, peripheral figures in the history of the discipline, and posits that, while the evolutionist tomes of the 19th century are now of purely historical value, th…
Why the Armchair in the First Place? Then Why Get up from It? (And Why Did Some Remain Seated?)
Charles Lyell advised young geologists that to discover the nature of the bigger world required travel. In the field of the natural science this had its exemplars inspired by Humboldt, Darwin, Wallace, Joseph Hooker; in the field of geography it had the model of Cook's explorations. Yet by the mid‐century even in the discipline of geography it was the armchair theorist who held sway. British anthropology came into being at the time the armchair w…
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