Unfamiliar Selves: Ion L. Idriess' Torres Strait Trilogy

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  • Robert Dixon The University of Southern Queensland

Keywords:

Torres Stait, Mer, anthropology, travel writing, popular culture

Abstract

The paper discusses the role of Idriess' books, particularly The Drums of Mer in Australian culture, as part of initial work on a book on writing, travel, anthropology, modernism and discourses of primitivism between 1930 and 1950.

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2013-02-16

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1995: Crossing Lines: Formations of Australian Culture

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