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    Unravelling the Yamaji Imaginings of Alexander Morton and Daisy Bates

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    Authors
    Barrington, Robin
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Barrington, R. 2015. Unravelling the Yamaji Imaginings of Alexander Morton and Daisy Bates. Aboriginal History. 39: pp. 27-61.
    Source Title
    Aboriginal History
    Additional URLs
    http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=774968037549866;res=IELAPA
    ISSN
    0314-8769
    School
    Centre for Aboriginal Studies
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50496
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Alexander Morton and Daisy Bates deployed the photograph as a privileged evidentiary anthropological document. Their photographic representations of Yamaji from Western Australia circulated within a transnational network of discourses and practices involving anthropologists, police, pastoralists and journalists, and served to cement views of Yamaji as racially homogeneous, primitive and uncivilised. This article explores the histories behind these photographs and their polysemy to challenge some of the scientific and popular 'truths' disseminated about their Yamaji subjects. It discusses how Yamaji as figures of Aboriginalist discourse were represented in the work of two influential public figures, Alexander Morton and Daisy Bates, and through their interactions within scientific and colonial networks of power.

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