Keynote Address: A Haunted Country?

Authors

  • Tom Griffiths Australian National University

Keywords:

collectors, Judith Wright, Bernard Smith, antiquarianism

Abstract

Referring to writers such as Judith Wright and Bernard Smith, the address surveys the interaction of white people with indigenous Australia, particularly the attitudes of collectors of Aboriginal artefacts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Parts of it are drawn from the author's book Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

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Published

2013-02-11

Issue

1997: Land and Identity: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference

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How to Cite

Keynote Address: A Haunted Country?. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1-12. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9498