The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism

by Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Book Overview

The Cunning of Recognition 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. Povinelli draws on seventeen years of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328682
• ISBN13: 9780822328681
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"