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Book SynopsisThis work analyzes the politics of anthropological knowledge from an critical perspective that alters existing understandings of colonialism. At the same time, it produces fresh insights into the history of anthropology.
Table of ContentsText and context - anthropology and settler colonialism; white manAs flour - virgin birth in anthropology and Australian settler discourse; science, colonialism and anthropology - the logic of global transformation; mother-right - sex and property in Victorian anthropology; totemism yesterday, today and tomorrow - Victorian anthroplogyAs eternal dichtomy; survival in paradism shift - E.B. Taylor and the problem of text; repressive authenticity.
