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'The popular middlebrow magazine Walkabout was published between 1934 and 1974. Its principle aim was to promote travel to and within Australia and to educate Australians about their continent. It aspired to be an Australian geographic magazine, and to this end it focussed on inland and remote Australia, and natural history. For this reason, and because it was published throughout a period, particularly in the early decades, when only those Aborigines living afar from populated regions were recognised as Aborigines, many of Walkabout's articles were about Aborigines or, more commonly, made mention of them. There are very few critiques of Walkabout, but those that do exist are critical of its portrayal of Aborigines. Notwithstanding that there are many reasons to find fault, it is possible to read this material in a more salutary light, even against the apparent intention of at least one of the contributors, Ernestine Hill. This article considers the work of a number of popular writers and two of the anthropologists who contributed to Walkabout, and finds reason to be less critical and more cautious in our assessment of their narrative representation of Aborigines than is generally allowed. The period of analysis is from 1934 to 1950.' (Editor's abstract)
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Finding Fault : Aborigines, Anthropologists, Popular Writers and Walkabout.
Australian Cultural History
Subjects:
- Walkabout 1934 periodical (304 issues)
- Black Words, White Page : Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988 1989 single work criticism
- After The Dreaming : The 1968 Boyer Lectures 1969 single work criticism
- The Spectre of Truganini 1980 single work criticism
- Literature and the Aborigine in Australia 1770- 1975 1978 single work criticism
- Australian Gothic : A Life of Albert Tucker 2002 single work biography
- Outlaws of the Leopolds 1952 single work non-fiction
- Drums of Mer 1933 single work novel
- The Red Chief : As Told by the Last of his Tribe 1953 single work autobiography
- Golden Days of Kimberley 1946 single work
- Thylungra 1945 single work
- Kimberley Epic 1948 single work
- The Outlaws of Windginna Gorge 1941 single work
- River of Destiny 1946 single work
- The Vanishing Australian 1945 single work
- Crocodiles and Pink Lotus 1939 single work essay
- Black Man's Day 1940 single work essay
- Christmas in the Outback 1942 single work essay
- North-Westward Ho! 1945 single work essay
- Mining Mica 1935 single work essay
- Travellin' Cattle 1943 single work essay
- Wings to Borroloola 1945 single work essay
- 1934-1974
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