W. E. H. Stanner

One of Australia's finest essayists, W. E. H. Stanner was the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians. 'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' - Marcia Langton W. E. H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures, he exposed...

Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner is perhaps most well known for coining the phrase the 'great Australian silence', addressing the culture of denial or 'conscious forgetting' regarding the history of Australia since European arrival. This reprint of On Aboriginal Religion pays tribute to the ongoing relevance of Stanner's work. His research into Aboriginal religion was first published as a series of articles...