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Noting the effect of ethnography in 'incarcerating' oral cultures, and the effect of travel writing where writers have fashioned themselves as amateur anthropologists, the author examines Chatwin's perceptions of Indigenous people in The Songlines, seeing a misfit between the living, dynamic culture Chatwin encountered and the pristine pre-contact culture of his preconceptions.

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