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Aboriginal
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Aboriginal
1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the native peoples of Australia
2. another word for an Australian Aborigine


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John and Jean Comaroff demonstrate this in their study of South Africa, arguing that "social amelioration" was driven by a desire to heal the "blighted body" of the indigene which "served as a graphic symptom of moral disorder.
Reformulating ideas about ambivalence taken from psychoanalytical theory, Bhabha argues that colonial discourse is often in two minds about its treatment of the indigene, pushing away but pulling towards, simultaneously repulsed and attracted to its Other (Ashcroft, Grifffiths & Tiffin 1998, p.
Colonel Paul Azan, L'Armee Indigene Nord-Africaine, Paris: Charles-Lavauzelle, 1925, p.
 
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