Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Indigenous Australians and German anthropology in the era of "decolonization"
- In
- Historical journal
- Imprint
- vol. 63, no. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 686-709
- Url
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000384
- Description
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2019
This article "might best be seen as a postcolonial study offering some intellectual materials for those pursuing decolonization by laying bare the links between settler colonial science, violence, dispossession, and the loss of indigenous autonomy and sovereignty. It is perhaps most properly seen as a scholarly intervention, a necessary part of Makarrata 'truth-telling'."
- Abstract
Decolonizing history and anthropology is often presented as a theoretical enterprise, through which a more rigorous and inclusive framing of historical precepts will deliver a clearer and less Eurocentric understanding of the past. Yet it is arguably necessary to decouple decolonization from the broader practices of anti-Eurocentric historiography. Via an empirical assessment of the legacy of Hermann Klaatsch, a German anthropologist working on the colonial frontier, this article examines the possibilities and limitations of a decolonizing approach to settler colonial history. The article reflects upon its own study of colonial anthropology and the historical complexity of the repatriation of Indigenous human remains, and suggests that not all anti-Eurocentric interrogations of the colonial past are synonymous with decolonization
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