- Title
- Rethinking Appropriation of the Indigenous: A Critique of the Romanticist Approach
- Creator
- Waldron, David; Newton, Janice
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/37568
- Identifier
- vital:5893
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2012.16.2.64
- Identifier
- ISSN:1092-6690
- Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to set out the effects of romanticism on attitudes of the New Age movement to Indigenous Aboriginal culture and people. Past scholarship has clearly expounded insensitive and exploitative New Age appropriation of Indigenous culture and emphasized inequalities in the power represent one’s own group. Essentialists, romantic stereotypes detract from deep understanding of Indigenous Australians, and negotiated solutions are not really possible when the parties involved are in grossly unequal circumstances. Scholarship acknowledges diversity within Indigenous groups and the New Age movement as well as convergences and reciprocal cultural borrowing, often within romantic epistemologies. A simple dichotomy of cultural theft by New Age practitioners from Indigenous Australians is inadequate to explain the complexities of the interaction.
- Relation
- Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions Vol. 16, no. 2 (November 2012 2012), p. 64-85
- Rights
- © 2014 The Regents of the University of California
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- 2204 Religion and Religious Studies; Cultural appropriation; New Age movement; Indigenous; Romanticism; Australian Aborigines
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