Book review: An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia, edited by Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett, xvii + 293 pp, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2008, ISBN 9780855756604 (pbk), $39.95

An Appreciation of Difference: WEHStanner and Aboriginal Australia is a tribute nearly 30 years after his death to one of the lost esteemed anthropologists who worked in Indigenous Australian contexts. It is also a reflection on what Stanner achieved in his lifetime and what his work contributes to current Indigenous issues and Indigenous studies in Australia today.