[Anthropgrad] [Fwd: Re: Semester 2 Seminars]

[Fay castles]

  ANU ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES SEMESTER TWO, 2009 
  
ANU anthropology seminars are held on Wednesday mornings 9.30 – 11.00am 
throughout the teaching period. 
  
/Location: Seminar Room, A, //Coombs// //Building//, //Fellows Rd//, ANU/ 
  
  
22 July             Peter Sutton (University of Adelaide) 
  
*The **Jodhpur** in History: Anthropologists, bushwalkers, artists, 
metaphysicians and other progressives between the wars* 



This paper takes a freshly integrative approach to what appear on the 
surface to be a disparate range of historical/cultural developments. 
Through their overlapping values and personal networks, progressivist 
Australians between the Wars, as did many other Westerners, experienced 
the impacts of modern psychology and anthropology, sexual liberalism, 
female emancipation, secularisation, unconventional spirituality, fading 
imperialism, Indigenous welfare reform, new appreciation for Indigenous 
peoples, growing environmental protectionism, the hiking, bushwalking 
and other vitalist movements, and modernist art and letters. These 
incipient decolonisations were occurring across a broad spectrum but can 
be shown to have been intricately linked intellectually, aesthetically, 
metaphysically and socially. In a small country, the web of personal 
relationships was especially crucial to this transformation. This was a 
critical creative phase in the history of emergent modern values in 
Australia, setting the basic pattern for decades to come. The sixties 
didn’t just pop up from nowhere.






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