- Title
- Reviewing the reviews: intellectual fields, the liberal state and the problem of alterity
- Creator
- Lattas, Andrew
- Relation
- Moving anthropology: critical indigenous studies p. 201-218
- Relation
- http://www.cdu.edu.au/cdupress
- Publisher
- Charles Darwin University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- Australian Aboriginal Anthropology had an ambivalent response to Elizabeth Povinelli's book The Cunning of Recognition. Lattas situates the reviews in an intellectual field among other anthropological contributions that were marginalised through being ignored or through hostile critiques. The reactions to Povinelli's book are analysed, not just as individual scholarly opinions, but as part of strategic intellectual alliances and oppositions that have a traceable genealogy as academics attempt to defend and create intellectual parameters. Coming from overseas and well versed in contemporary international discussions about post-colonial identities, power, the state and law, Povinelli's work unsettles as it violates and redraws many kinds of territorial borders. She raises the politics of alterity and it's acknowledgment in a way that requires a rethinking of anthropological approaches to the state and anthropological participation in the legal system.
- Subject
- Aboriginal Australians; ethnic identity; alterity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/28759
- Identifier
- uon:2210
- Identifier
- ISBN:0975835610
- Language
- eng
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