Australia: Anthropology Pure And Profane: The Politics Of Applied Research In Aboriginal Australia

Australia: Anthropology Pure And Profane: The Politics Of Applied Research In Aboriginal Australia David Trigger, 2011   Is there a view that academic anthropology operates or belongs in a ‘sacred’ space that is distinguishable from applied research occupying a less pure, intellectually inferior and more morally profane domain? Certainly, in my experience of some thirty plus years of work in Australian Aboriginal studies, such a distinction has at times been both promoted and contested...

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