Re: Natives


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Posted by Robert Hill on July 28, 1998 at 17:21:56:

In Reply to: Re: Natives posted by Art Mulder on July 28, 1998 at 16:34:06:

Like Rachel, I had noticed the independent use of 'natives' for adults
and thought it a bit improbable. But I don't understand Art's point
about Secret Water. I don't recall that the Eels have independently
arrived at the same terminology for anybody or anything that is used
by the Swallows and Amazons.

Indeed their terminology for people is roughly the opposite of
that previously used by the Swallows and Amazons. In the
Eels' system of things, the children are the ('uncivilised',
non-European) 'cannibals' and their parents are the ('civilised',
European) 'missionaries'.

In this stuff we have to try to think ourselves into a mind-set
very different from that of todsy.


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