Anthropology Seminar presented by Suzanne Ingram: Homo-Indigene: an analysis of the reshaping of Aboriginality in contemporary Australia
Abstract Suzanne’s research on health communication has found the health space increasingly populated by people who were ‘white’ until they ‘discovered’ a distant Aboriginal ancestor. Introducing her concept of the homo indigene, she will explain the expression ‘box-tickers’ and demonstrate the processes through which they become social actors of a specific kind, how they operate …