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标题：The Protectors
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作者：Stephen Gray
期刊名称：Transnational Literature
电子版ISSN：1836-4845
出版年度：2011
卷号：4
期号：1
出版社：Flinders Humanities Research Centre
摘要：I picked up this book for review just as I started working on a research paper about Herbert Basedow, the South Australian medical doctor, anthropologist, and, for a few short months in 1911, the first Commonwealth Chief Protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. As it turned out, Basedow merits only the most passing mention in legal scholar and novelist Stephen Gray’s book (a ‘swaggering, self-aggrandising, self-confident German nearly two metres tall,’ whose ‘most memorable’ contribution to the Territory’s Aboriginal policy was the recommendation that Aborigines be tattooed for identification [54-55]). Having expected a history of the Territory’s Chief Protectors, along the lines of Tony Austin’s Never Trust a Government Man, or even Pat Jacobs’ biography of A.O. Neville, I quickly found that the book was quite different from what I had imagined..