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All those peaceful, happy natives.(The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays by Roger Sandall)
The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays, by Roger Sandall; Westview Press, 2000, $55.
ROGER SANDALL was a professional film-maker before he became an academic anthropologist in the University of Sydney. His films of Aboriginal corroborees and of Aboriginal stockmen at work and leisure are of high artistic and historical value. The nine essays in this collection provide an invaluable account of questions of great importance, such as the appeal of primitive cultures to many intellectuals in wealthy and technologically advanced societies, the relationship between universalistic concepts of civilisation and particularistic cultures, and why some ...
- RETURN OF THE REPRESSED.(new books on treatment of Australia's indigenous...
- Magazine article from: Arena Magazine Ryan, Matthew June 1, 2001 700+ words
...against Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory; the other, by Rothwell himself, outlined a new book by Roger Sandall, The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays. Rothwell, in a manoeuvre perfected by those commentators who complain...
- The limits of modernity: with environmental catastrophe threatening to...
- Magazine article from: Arena Magazine Rundle, Guy December 1, 2006 700+ words
...flatly unacceptable aspects of such cultures began to come once again to the fore. Ex-Quadrant editor Roger Sandall's The Culture Cult was one of the most comprehensive counterblasts against what he constructed as a wholesale surrender to...
- Devil fervour: conspiracy theories, Ground Zero and the religion of the...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Dutton, Edward March 22, 2008 700+ words
...There are, it might be stressed, different kinds of religion and the New Zealand anthropologist, Roger Sandall has argued in The Culture Cult (2001) that different styles of religious thinking can lead to very different results in terms of...
- Books received.
- Magazine article from: The Monist January 1, 2002 700+ words
...South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2001. Pp. 221. Paper, $18.00. The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays. By Roger Sandall. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. x + 214. Paper, $25.00. The Human...
- The Culture Cult. Designer Tribalism and Other Essays. (Book Reviews/Comptes...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology Baldus, Bernd March 22, 2003 700+ words
Sandall, Roger. The Culture Cult. Designer Tribalism and Other...traditional societies promoted by the "culture cult" is in fact a synthetic mix of...the intellectual origins of the "culture cult" to Rousseau's "noble savage...
- The sword and the cross.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant d'Abrera, Bernard March 1, 2008 700+ words
SIR: Roger Sandall (December 2007) takes his slipper...is no salvation". En passent, Roger Sandall in his brief history of Islamic depredations...liberalised West are, contrary to Roger Sandall's view, embarrassed by the Cross...
- Galton on stage.(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Armstrong, Stephen May 1, 2007 700+ words
SIR: For those tantalised by Roger Sandall's reference to Brian Lipson's performance as Sir Francis Galton in A Large Attendance in the Antechamber (March 2007), Malthouse...
- The virtue of openness.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant McIntyre, Andrew April 1, 2007 700+ words
SIR: I am little surprised at Roger Sandall's display of moral panic (January-February 2007) and more particularly when he asks rhetorically if the "mad mufti", Sheik...
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