Table of Contents

Contents; Introduction; Missionary inscriptions of the 'lost soul'; Domesticating the savage; Linguistic inscriptions of the language; Psychological inscriptions of the mind; Physiological inscriptions of the senses; Anthropological inscriptions of the community; Disciplining and regulating the body; Disciplining the Islander in formal education; Disciplining Indigenous Knowledge; The Cultural Interface; An Indigenous Standpoint theory; Index.

About the Author

Professor Martin Nakata is the Director of Jumbunna: Indigenous House of Learning and Chair of Australian Indigenous Education at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Reviews

"[R]epresents the most focussed and sustained Indigenous critique of anthropological knowledge yet published. It is impressive, rigorous, and sometimes poignant..." --Professor Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge

"Nakata here reveals himself as an Indigenous philosopher of the first rank." --Associate Professor Regina Ganter, Griffith University