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Article: Greg Gow, The Oromo in Exile: From the Horn of Africa to the Suburbs of Australia.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Australian Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 149, pb $29.95. ISBN 0522849903.
Greg Gow achieves two remarkable things in this text. First, his detailed and lengthy research into the exiled Oromo community in Melbourne is groundbreaking in both its subject matter and scope. Second, he challenges the methodological boundaries of his chosen field of ethnography by employing postmodern and postcolonial theories to analyse the Oromo's performance of traditional practices in their state of exile. While both of these achievements are admirable, it is difficult to fully realise such an ambitious project in a 149 page text.
One imagines that Gow battled to condense and ...