Language, Culture and Science

This article discusses the work of George Seddon as a significant Australian intellectual whose writing on postcolonial settler-descendant relations with land and nature is a major contribution to academic and public life. Seddon's originality lies partly in his bridging knowledge and expertise in both the humanities and sciences. However, while there is a reliance upon factual data drawn from geology, botany and zoology, Seddon's analyses of language and culture can appear idiosyncratic and unsystematic in terms of social science methods. Based on introspection, the work might be considered `autoethnography', though Seddon seeks to do more than tell stories about himself. In acknowledging both the brilliance and shortcomings of Seddon's work, I present some examples of how it has stimulated my own research on the cultural implications of naming species and places in Australia

Art history · Autoethnography · Epistemology · George (robot · Introspection · Media studies · Originality · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy

• Forests as Spiritually Significant Places

  Open Access•David S Trigger, David Trigger et al.•The Australian Journal of…•2005

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• Places We Been

  Open Access•P Beilharz, Trevor Hogan•Thesis Eleven•2022

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• Nature, Work and ‘the Environment’

  Open Access•David S Trigger, David Trigger•The Australian Journal of…•1999

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• Cultural Studies in Question

  Marjorie Ferguson, Peter Golding•Cultural Studies in Question•1997

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• Anthropology and Autobiography

  Judith Okely, Helen Callaway•Anthropology and Autobiography•1992

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• Materialising Oceania

  Open Access•Joshua A Bell, H Geismar•The Australian Journal of…•2009

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• Anthropology and/or/as ‘cultural studies'? A response to Trigger

  BOB HODGE, Mishra et al.•Anthropological Forum•1993

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• Mining, Landscape and the Culture of Development Ideology in Australia

  Open Access•David S Trigger•Ecumene•1997

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• Perceiving the Pilbara

  Open Access•George Seddon•Thesis Eleven•2001

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• Beyond ?subjectivity

  Open Access•Susan Krieger•Qualitative Sociology•1985

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• Rats are people, too

  Open Access•Birgitta Edelman•Anthropology Today•2002

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