Fever in the archive
© Thesis Eleven Pty, Ltd., SAGE Publications. Biography is a metaphor for this critical study of a major Australian archive that holds the records of government departments responsible for the administration of Aboriginal affairs in Western Australian from 1897 to 1972. This artefact of totalitarian...
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| description | © Thesis Eleven Pty, Ltd., SAGE Publications. Biography is a metaphor for this critical study of a major Australian archive that holds the records of government departments responsible for the administration of Aboriginal affairs in Western Australian from 1897 to 1972. This artefact of totalitarian state control is structured by western colonial ontologies of bureaucracy and legislative control of subject people. The project of decolonizing this archive was begun in the 1970s by Indigenous writers negotiating between the archives and their own cultural knowledge to produce major creative works combining both. These works show the passionate, rich storytelling that emerges when indigenous people release the stories captured in the archives and restore them as living cultural heritage. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-721532018-12-13T09:32:48Z Fever in the archive Haebich, Anna © Thesis Eleven Pty, Ltd., SAGE Publications. Biography is a metaphor for this critical study of a major Australian archive that holds the records of government departments responsible for the administration of Aboriginal affairs in Western Australian from 1897 to 1972. This artefact of totalitarian state control is structured by western colonial ontologies of bureaucracy and legislative control of subject people. The project of decolonizing this archive was begun in the 1970s by Indigenous writers negotiating between the archives and their own cultural knowledge to produce major creative works combining both. These works show the passionate, rich storytelling that emerges when indigenous people release the stories captured in the archives and restore them as living cultural heritage. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72153 10.1177/0725513616657887 Sage Publications Ltd. restricted |
| spellingShingle | Haebich, Anna Fever in the archive |
| title | Fever in the archive |
| title_full | Fever in the archive |
| title_fullStr | Fever in the archive |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fever in the archive |
| title_short | Fever in the archive |
| title_sort | fever in the archive |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72153 |