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Friday essay: the ‘great Australian silence’ 50 years on
It’s 50 years since the anthropologist WEH Stanner gave the 1968 Boyer Lectures — a watershed moment for Australian history. Stanner argued that Australia’s sense of its past, its very collective memory, had been built on a…
- Anna Clark
- The Conversation
It is a structural matter, a view from a window which has been carefully placed to exclude a whole quadrant of the landscape. What may well have begun as a simple forgetting of other possible views turned under habit and…
His lectures profoundly influenced historians partly because of the image he captured: for a…