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A Response To A Frontier Conversation (Review Of Documentary), Margaret D. Jacobs
A Response To A Frontier Conversation (Review Of Documentary), Margaret D. Jacobs
Department of History: Faculty Publications
This intriguing and soft-spoken documentary brings together scholars of Indigenous history from both North America and Australia to meet with Indigenous communities and their locally-based historians in the Northern Territory. In these encounters, it becomes clear that scholarly, academic approaches to history often clash with the ways that Indigenous communities and their historians tell their histories. This is not news to most readers of Aboriginal History; however, the film goes beyond this observation. It aims to show the possibilities for dialogue and fruitful exchange, as well as productive debate, when historians trained in different traditions of knowledge production meet …