Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from March 22 2000

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from March 22 2000

General Editor's Note.(Australian Aboriginal Studies)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... I would like to introduce myself as the new Director of Research at the Institute and the new General Editor of Australian Aboriginal Studies. I have had an interest in and association with the Institute since 1979, and I'm keen to see the...

Editorial.(Australian Aboriginal Studies )
March 22, 2000... A major component of the Institute's functions is to `promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies'; one of the ways in which it does this is by disseminating the results of research through support of conferences, workshops and...

Globalisation, decolonisation and Indigenous Australia.
March 22, 2000... Abstract: Introduction to the five papers in this issue that are based on presentations made at the Darwin Fulbright Symposium. Context of the Symposium is set and discussion made of the various themes and issues developed at the meeting and in...

Playing the game: is sport as good for race relations as we'd like to think?
March 22, 2000... Abstract: With the increasing engagement of Australia's Indigenous peoples with Australian society, sport is heralded as an avenue of positive race relations. However, is this an accurate characterisation of Australian race relations? The...

Representing the Rainbow: Aboriginal culture in an interconnected world.
March 22, 2000... Abstract: Stories known and told by Aboriginal peoples as recollections of their past experiences are increasingly being brought into the framework of recent, intensified efforts to recognise and validate Aboriginal culture by collections of...

The use of electronic media in remote communities.
March 22, 2000... Abstract: In a world where going away means growing away, remote outback communities can now plug into an evolvoing global fibre-optic satellite network without their members leaving the family or the land. These networks and linkages lie on...

Plugging in Indigenous knowledge: connections and innovations.
March 22, 2000... Abstract: Indigenous participation in the early growth of the World Wide Web was vigorous and successful. This was mainly due to the emergence of the Web as a new medium where conventiuonal media forces were not able to control participation at...

The Web and today's colonialism.
March 22, 2000... Abstract: The World Wide Web has the potential to reproduce and disrupt the social formations and legitimating conditions of Australian colonialism. Analytical frameworks need to be developed to evaluate the impact of the Web in Indigenous...

Human genetics: control of research and sharing of benefits.
March 22, 2000... Abstract: The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) is a program of mass sampling of Indigenous peoples and other isolated populations, presently being conducted by teams of molecular biologists around the world, and is due for completion in...

Genetic research: what does this mean for Indigenous Australian communities?
March 22, 2000... Abstract: People whose maternal ancestry stems mainly from the Paakintji and Ngiyambaa language groups of the Darling River region contributed blood samples for a study which identified distinctive types from the hypervariable mitochondrial...

Conducting a community-based archaeological project: an archaeologist's and a Koenpul man's perspective.
March 22, 2000... Introduction Peel Island is a small island in Moreton Bay in southeast Queensland. The islands and waters of the bay are the country of the people of Quandamooka. There are three family groups or clans in the Quandamooka community: the...

Remote access: Maningrida Arts & Culture and the World Wide Web.
March 22, 2000... Maningrida Arts & Culture (MAC) is an art marketing and cultural research organisation, operating under the auspices of the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation in Maningrida, north-central Arnhem Land. The art centre deals in bark painting,...

Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1998 This is a very useful book. The authors have collected, sifted and synthesised the...

Advances in Dating Australian Rock-Markings: Papers from the First Australian Rock-Picture Dating Workshop.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Advances in Dating Australian Rock-Markings: Papers from the First Australian Rock-Picture Dating Workshop Compiled and edited by Graeme K. Ward and Claudio Tuniz Australian Rock Art Research Association, Melbourne (Occasional AURA...

Kakadu: The Making of a National Park.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Kakadu: The Making of a National Park David Lawrence The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2000 In Kakadu: The Making of a National Park, David Lawrence attempts to weave many diverse threads into a coherent story. The...

Sustaining Eden: Indigenous Community Wildlife Management in Australia.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Jocelyn Davies, Karen Higginbottom, Denise Noack, Helen Ross and Elspeth Young International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London (Evaluating Eden Series 1), 2000, ISSN1561-8382 This is the first in a series published by...

From the Frontier: Outback Letters to Baldwin Spencer.(Review)
March 22, 2000... From the Frontier: Outback Letters to Baldwin Spencer John Mulvaney with Alison Petch and Howard Morphy Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000 For a glimpse of life in Central Australia 100 years ago, for a taste of gritty inland reality, you...

A Guide to Overseas Precedents of Relevance to Native Title.(Review)
March 22, 2000... A Guide to Overseas Precedents of Relevance to Native Title Shaunnagh Dorsett and Lee Goddon Native Title Research Unit, AIATSIS, Canberra, 1998 In A Guide to Overseas Precedents of Relevance to Native Title, Dorsett and Goddon have...

Land Rights at Risk? Evaluations of the Reeves Report.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Land Rights at Risk? Evaluations of the Reeves Report John C. Altman, Francis Morphy and Timothy Rowse (eds) Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, Canberra (CAEPR Research Monograph 14)...

Religious Business: Essays on Australian Aboriginal Spirituality.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Religious Business: Essays on Australian Aboriginal Spirituality Max Charlesworth (ed.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998 Religious Business collects nine essays based on lectures given as part of the Charles Strong Lecture...

The Great White Flood. Racism in Australia. Critically Appraised from an Aboriginal Historico-theological Viewpoint.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Great White Flood. Racism in Australia. Critically Appraised from an Aboriginal Historico-theological Viewpoint Anne Pattel-Gray Scholars Press, Atlanta (American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism Series), 1998 Religious...

Books Received for Review.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2000... The following titles have been received for review: Jell, P.A. and R.P. Robins (eds) 1998 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, Volume 1, Part 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane [includes papers by I.J. McNiven, R.P....

AIATSIS CONFERENCE 2001.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Institute will host a major conference on issues in Indigenous Australian studies, from Tuesday 18 to Thursday 20 September 2001, at the Manning Clark Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra. Conference 2001 is a celebratory...

AURA 2000.(Australian Rock Art Research Association )
March 22, 2000... The Third International Congress of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA) was held at the Araluen Centre in Alice Springs during the second week of July 2000. The congress saw involvement of Indigenous Australians as well as...

RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED BY COUNCIL, MAY 2000.(Directory)
March 22, 2000... One hundred and fifteen applications were received, of which forty-five were approved by Council and able to be funded. Funds available for grants totalled approximately $650 000. RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED BY COUNCIL MAY 2000 Grant no....

RESEARCH PROGRAM.(staff changes)
March 22, 2000... Staff changes Dr Stephen Wild retired from the position of Research Director on 17 March 2000. His plans for this year include some teaching at the Canberra School of Music as well as editing a book on Torres Strait Islander culture. ...

AIATSIS SITES INVENTORY.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Records of archaeological sites and places culturally significant to Indigenous Australians have been maintained by the Institute since the time of its original Principal, Dr F.D. McCarthy. In the 1970s, with the inception of the National Site...

NEW SOUTH WALES ATSIC STRATEGIC LANGUAGE STUDY.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The New South Wales Strategic Language Study, funded by the New South Wales State Office of ATSIC, is an overview of current language maintenance activities and available resources in the state. A project team consisting of Mr Tony Lonsdale...

LIBRARY NEWS.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Library welcomed Ms Shelley Jamieson to the Institute. Shelley recently commenced work as conservator on a part-time basis. Her appointment is a great development in the overall management and care of the collection. From 2 October...

FAMILY HISTORY UNIT.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The past year has been a full one for the AIATSIS Family History Unit (writes its head, Kath Schilling). Three national Link-Up workshops were held at the Institute, along with a series of two-day workshops in Wollongong, Bathurst and Armidale....

NEW RELEASES FROM ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Settlement: A History of Australian Indigenous Housing Edited by Peter Read ISBN 0 85575 363 3 RRP $33 plus p&h Covering the diversity of meanings of the word `settlement', this book includes essays on the multiplicity of shelters used in...

THE INSTITUTE'S NEW BUILDING.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The new building for the Institute, co-located with the National Museum of Australia on Acton Peninsula, is nearing completion (notes Kingsley Palmer, Deputy Principal). The architectural impact of the two buildings will contribute a...

OBITUARIES: Donald William McElwain AO, ED, FBPsS, HonFAPS 1915-2000.(Obituary)
March 22, 2000... Don McElwain was one of the foundation members of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and was a member of its interim Council from 1962 to 1964 and Council from 1964 to 1974. He was the Chairman of the Psychology, later Education and...

OBITUARIES: Laurie Gawanali ceremony leader, painter, story-teller, land rights activist c. 1916 - 2000.(Obituary)
March 22, 2000... That was really strict law before. We still the bosses! Someone break the law in that area he only got short life to live. But now if they want this law where it can stand up strong again we like to bring it back today make it more stronger....