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The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (Politics, History, and Culture) by Elizabeth A. Povinelli, George Steinmetz, Julia Adams, Nancy Rose Hunt, Webb Keane is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (Politics, History, and Culture) about?
<i>The Cunning of Recognition</i> is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic traditional culture.<br>Povinelli draws on seventeen years of ethnographic research among northwest
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- Author
- Elizabeth A. Povinelli, George Steinmetz, Julia Adams, Nancy Rose Hunt, Webb Keane
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822328537
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Social Science, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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