Gillian Cowlishaw is an Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.
Books & arts
Ambivalent in Arnhem Land
Gillian Cowlishaw
13 December 2022
Have a determined anthropologist and a gifted writer come to terms with how differently Yolngu do things?
Essays & reportage
Black loves matter
Gillian Cowlishaw
14 July 2020
During the “great Australian silence” the corridors of power were full of talk about the dangers of interracial intimacy
Essays & reportage
Friend or foe? Anthropology’s encounter with Aborigines
Gillian Cowlishaw
19 August 2015
Anthropologists might have been implicated in colonial policies and practices, writes Gillian Cowlishaw, but for many decades theirs was the only scholarly discipline…
Essays & reportage
Two-up, one down
Gillian Cowlishaw
7 July 2010
The law seemed to fail Boonie Hilt, a thirty-six year old Aboriginal man, but there were small victories along the way
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