Early Australian Anthropology: Francis Gillen & Sir Baldwin Spencer
During the 1890s, the biologist and anthropologist W. B. Spencer collaborated with Francis J. Gillen, an ethnologist who was an Arrernte speaker and had used the expression "dream times" when attempting to translate...
In the wake of the Cold War and a global movement of decolonization, anthropology was included in the vast number of institutions and fields of study examined critically by other anthropologists given the field's...
The Power of Dreaming: Empowerment & Disempowerment
As previously discussed, the 'discovery' of Dreaming and Dreamtime by settler-colonists empowered them to appropriate land from Australian Indigenous people, using their supposed lack of understanding of both...