Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 [Review Essay] Disciplining the Savages : Savaging the Disciplines.
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'Martin Nakata has chosen a title that is absolutely right for this book, Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the disciplines. In the nineteenth century, the Torres Strait Islanders were thought to be locked in savagery and sin and in desperate need of the civilising disciplines offered by assorted European academics, anthropologists and missionaries. In the present century it is the turn of the European disciplines to be savaged. Nakata, a Torres Strait Islander with a doctorate in Education, casts a critical eye on what assorted academics and missionariesthought that they were accomplishing as they investigated and patronised the islander communities of the Torres Strait.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies Studies in Aboriginal Song : A Special Issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 2007 Z1475731 2007 periodical issue (2 issues)

    This special issue focuses on studies in Aboriginal song, resulting from 'research projects that focus on endangered language and music and involved either collaborative work between linguists and musicologists, or work by scholars with training in both disciplines' (1).

    2007
    pg. 172-174
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