Overview

Explores the lives of Aborigines in the small town of Katherine, Australia. Merlan combines ethnography and theory to study issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. The vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them and the ethical problems this poses are recognised.

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"""Merlan's work will achieve an important place in a new, and often innovative, generation of anthropological concern for Aboriginal realities."""

""Merlan's work will achieve an important place in a new, and often innovative, generation of anthropological concern for Aboriginal realities.""

Merlan's work will achieve an important place in a new, and often innovative, generation of anthropological concern for Aboriginal realities.

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Francesca Merlan is professor of anthropology at the Australian National University.

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