Subtle joys of Indigenous cultures are lost on Hanson

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Perhaps the good Pauline Hanson should read (or have someone read to her) the observations of the noted Belgian anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who regarded Australian Aboriginal societies as having some of the most intellectually complex and elegant kinship and social systems in human history, famously admiring the “crystalline beauty” of their structures (“Jacinta Price turns on Pauline Hanson over ‘primitive’ Indigenous comments” September 15). He also noted that while Western observers often misjudged Aboriginal groups as…

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