Beyond Narratives of Aboriginal Self-deliverance

Land Rights and Anthropological Visibility in the Australian Public Domain

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ID2145169
AutoresN Peterson (0000-0003-3100-0647, Australian National University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume32
Fascículo2
Páginas125-137
Data de publicação2022-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2022.2084716
OpenAlexW4286434159
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas11

The central role that anthropologists play in Aboriginal land and native title claims is becoming less visible. In some ways, this is not surprising since minorities that need the help of others, if they are seeking recognition of their rights, are often uncomfortable being the beneficiaries of assistance, and the narratives they come to cherish are those of self-deliverance. However, the public discourses in which anthropology is involved also contribute to this decreasing visibility, particularly because the most important of them is the technical discourse that comes with being an expert witness in land and native title claims, where the contribution of lawyers and the law have a higher profile. A third factor is that for those people Emma Kowal (2015 Kowal, E. 2015. Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia. New York: Berghahn. [Google Scholar]) calls white anti-racist, a category into which many anthropologists might be thought to fall, self-effacement is a foundational value, so that any contribution to improving Aboriginal circumstances should be obscured. But is that how anthropologists and the beneficiaries of this assistance think

Expert witness · Indigenous · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · White (mutation · Witness · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies