WEH Stanner, 'The Boyer Lectures: After the Dreaming (1968), in The Dreaming and Other Essays, 172-224, 189 WEH Stanner, 'The Aborigines (1938)', in The Dreaming and Other Essays (Melbourne: Black Inc. The silence to which he referred was largely a phenomenon of the twentieth century, rather than colonial Australia.' (iii)

What may have begun as a simple forgetting of other possible views turned into habit and over time into something like a cult of forgetfulness on a national scale.' (ii) 'It is a structural matter, a view from a window which has been carefully placed to exclude a whole quadrant of the landscape. He reflects that 'what anthropologist WEH Stanner described in 1938 as 'a mass of solid indifference' in Australian culture to Indigenous Australia.(i) In his 1968 ABC Boyer Lectures, Stanner coined the phrase 'the great Australian silence' to describe the phenomenon, which could not be explained by mere 'absent-mindedness': A.Billy Griffiths in Deep Time Dreaming (page 37), ties together Stanner's work over three decades.

| Demography - Palaeodemography - Aboriginal settlement of Australia. | Environment - Climate and weather - Climate change. | Aboriginal Australians - Land tenure - History. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Īrchaeology - Australia - Quotations, maxims, etc. Combined, they map the development of the field and encourage a dialogue between science and the humanities. Each has been chosen because it is a pithy summation of an issue. The entries are drawn from letters and journals, histories and poems, newspapers and novels. Woven in amongst these quotations is the story of how, as a nation, we are coming to terms with ancient Australia. It is a meditation on science and place, culture and politics, deep time and the Dreaming - and it is steeped in an appreciation of good writing and a well-turned phrase. This book is a guide to the catchphrases of the discipline.

Ix, 166 pages : illustrations, photographs 22 cm.Īustralian archaeology has been involved in a great enterprise over the last sixty years, uncovering the deep past of a desert continent and the history of its first people. The Australian archaeologist's book of quotations / edited by Mike Smith and Billy Griffiths Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google BooksĬlayton, Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing,

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