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Article: All those peaceful, happy natives.(The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays by Roger Sandall)
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- January 1, 2002
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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 ...