Document (#2170)

Author

Moorcroft, H.

Title

Ethnocentrism in subject headings

Source

Australian library journal. 41(1992) Febr., S.40-45

Year

1992

Abstract

Libraries exist to make information available to the entire community in an unbiased way. In this paper I will argure that in Aboriginal Studies, libraries are rigidly preserving the status quo, or, in other words, perpetuating the dominant paradigm, by which I mean the ethnocentric attitude that the white, modern, male-dominated society is inherently superior to any other. I shall look critically at the application of subject headings in the area of Aboriginal Studies and the effect they have of sanitising information so as not to disturb certain beliefs

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