单词 | aboriginalism |
释义 | aboriginalismn. 1. The traditional culture of aboriginal or indigenous peoples; recognition of the rights of such peoples; emphasis on aboriginal people or culture. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > due recognition of indigenous peoples aboriginalism1845 1845 Boston Post 22 Dec. This gentleman, as you no doubt know, is the admitted Magnus Apollo of aboriginalism at home. 1868 N.Z. Herald in Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Sept. 1/1 But England has become troubled with qualms of conscience, or it may be a sentiment, about aboriginalism. 1962 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 23 124 In Costa Rica aboriginalism lacks sense. 2017 Prince George (Brit. Columbia) Citizen (Nexis) 12 Apr. (Final ed.) a4 Her reputation has already been cemented for combining modernism with aboriginalism. 2. With capital initial. Stereotyped or exoticized representation of Australian Aboriginal peoples which is regarded as condescending, patronizing, or embodying a colonialist attitude; an instance of this. Cf. orientalism n. 3. ΚΠ 1991 B. Hodge & V. Mishra Dark Side of Dream ii. 27 Orientalism in his [sc. Edward Said's] account has a double movement, a fascination with the culture of the colonised along with a suppression of their capacity to speak or truly know it... Within Australian culture a similar phenomenon can be labelled ‘Aboriginalism’. 1994 Ngoonjook Aug. 82 Aboriginalism is the story about Aborigines told by whites using only white people's imaginations. Aboriginal voices don't contribute to this story, so in Aboriginalism, the Aborigines always become what the white man imagines them to be. 2004 J. M. Jacobs in N. AlSayyad End of Trad. ii. 30 The Aboriginal Australia that is sought out by tourists is framed for the most part by a primitivist Aboriginalism. 2019 S. Hemming et al. in W. Nikolakis et al. Reclaiming Indigenous Governance iv. 73 Resist the paternalism and Aboriginalism of Australian forms of protection and recognition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1845 |
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