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Social history and aboriginal legends: a reply to Gary Morgan.(National Museum of History exhibitions)

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| April 01, 2002 | Windschuttle, Keith | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MY ARGUMENT in Quadrant, September 2001, that the National Museum of Australia was a profound intellectual mistake, had a number of premises but the main one was a critique of the following proposition expressed at a 1999 conference to justify the approach its curators had taken:

 
   Many museum practitio0ers now see their work as a critical practice, 
   committed to drawing out the ways in which constructions of race, class and 
   gender (and sometimes sexuality and age) have shaped national histories. 

Despite his long-winded reply, Gary Morgan fails to address my response to this assertion; in fact, he misses the whole point. I was not discussing ...

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