ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to broach the questions through an examination of the work of three writers who are drawn to a broad resistance model in Aboriginal studies – Cowlishaw herself, Andrew Lattas and Patrick Wolfe. The work of these three authors is broadly consistent in approach, notwithstanding some important differences in range, emphasis and critical understanding. The chapter demonstrates the coherence of the disparate themes with which they deal. It shows how the explicit resistance model of Aboriginal culture developed by Cowlishaw is linked, firstly, to a critique of the intellectual appropriation of Aboriginality by white Australians and, secondly, an analysis of the relationship of such appropriation to anthropological writing and the operation of the Australian nation-state. The chapter further deals with the arguments put forward by Cowlishaw.
