Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from March 2001

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from March 2001

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 2001... This issue of the journal maintains the diversity of articles published in Australian Aboriginal Studies: and concomitantly reveals the depth and breadth of Indigenous Studies in Australia. We have an article by Mitchell Rolls which discusses...

James Cowan and the white quest for the black self.
March 22, 2001... Abstract: A literary genre is emerging in which Aborigines are cast as the spiritual saviours of the supposedly alienated Western self. One of the most prolific authors writing in this field is the Australian, James Cowan. Through a series of...

From `Australian Aborigines' to `white Australians'.
March 22, 2001... Abstract: There is a general inadequacy of published research on the historical specificity of Australia's culturalist or assimilation policies as they directly affected its Indigenous people and, in particular, on the ideas of Paul (later Sir...

The forlorn hope: Bennelong and Yemmerrawannie go to England.
March 22, 2001... Abstract: This article covers aspects of Bennelong's and Yemmerrawannie's sojourn in England between 1793 and 1795 not previously published and provides a different explanation concerning the illness that eventually led to the death of...

Sizing up prehistory: sample size and composition of artefact assemblages.
March 22, 2001... Abstract: A review of selected Holocene artefact assemblages in Australia demonstrates that assemblage composition is often dependent on the size of the sample. Rare types of objects, such as backed artefacts, are less likely to be present in...

Technological change in Wardaman Country: a report on the 1999 field season. (Research Report).
March 22, 2001... Introduction In this paper I report on the aims, field procedures and preliminary results of four months of archaeological fieldwork conducted in 1999 in Wardaman Country in the Northern Territory. The study region is located among the...

A Dutch influence on Nhanda? A reply to Blevins. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2001... The June 1998 issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies carried an article entitled `A Dutch Influence on Nhanda? Wanyjidaga innga!' by Juliette Blevins (1998). This article called into question some of the evidence I put forward in my book And...

A Dutch influence on Nhanda? Malya kanangga! (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2001... In this issue, Rupert Gerritsen replies to my 1998 Australian Aboriginal Studies (AAS) critique of his book And Their Ghosts May Be Heard (1994a). As his reply does not really address, let alone challenge, the interpretations and statements of...

Balgo: The Musical Life of a Desert Community.
March 22, 2001... Balgo: The Musical Life of a Desert Community Richard Moyle Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education (CIRCME), University of Western Australia, Perth, 1997, ISBN 0 86422 565 2, $25 Balgo: The Musical Life of a...

Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights 1919-1939.
March 22, 2001... Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights 1919-1939 Fiona Paisley Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp xii + 202, pb, $32.95, ISBN 0 522 84919 9 In her poignant title, Fiona Paisley captures...

Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2001... Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders (eds) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp xi + 323, ISBN 0 521 77048 3 hb $99, ISBN 0 521 77935 5 pb $39.95 James Tully's...

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (Cultural Heritage Series, vol. 1, part 1). (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2001... Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (Cultural Heritage Series, vol. 1, part 1) P.A. Jell and R.P. Robins Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1998, pp 174, ISSN 1440-4788 This new series continues the high production standard established by...

The Traditional Settlement Pattern in South West Victoria Reconsidered. (Book Note).
March 22, 2001... The Traditional Settlement Pattern in South West Victoria Reconsidered Rupert Gerritsen Intellectual Property Publications, LPO Box A145, Australian National University, ACT 0200, 2000 (no ISBN) Gerritsen, in this long paper...

Books received for review.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Abramson, J.A. 2000 Art in Nonliterate Societies--Structural Approaches and Implications for Sociocultural and System Theories, New Issues Press, Western Michigan University. Cunneen, C. 2001 Conflict, Politics and Crime--Aboriginal...

News from the Library. (News and Information).(Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Library)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... A `Finding Aid' to the WEH Stanner Collection has recently been completed by the AIATSIS Library. From the time of his graduation in anthropology from the University of Sydney in 1931, William Edward Hanley Stanner (1905-81) worked among...

The Rom Gallery. (News and Information).(Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Rom Gallery)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... With the move to new premises on Acton Peninsula, the Institute now has a dedicated public exhibition space--the Rom Gallery--in which to promote its collections, publications and products, and the research it sponsors. The broad theme of...

AIATSIS conference 2001. (News and Information).
March 22, 2001... Planning is well under way for the Institute's major conference on issues in Indigenous Australian studies (Tuesday 18 to Thursday 20 September 2001, at the Manning Clark Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra), a celebratory...

History created (and revisited)--a new home for AIATSIS. (News and Information).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... The inaugural meeting of what was to become the Interim Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (later renamed the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) was held in Canberra on 22 November...

New publications. (Native Title Research Unit).(Native Title in the New Millennium)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... The Native Title Research Unit has recently prepared Native Title in the New Millennium for publication in the Aboriginal Studies Press Native Title Series. The editor, Bryan Keon-Cohen, QC, is Principal Legal Officer for the Mirimbiak Nations...

Upcoming conference. (Native Title Research Unit).
March 22, 2001... The Unit is also organising and jointly sponsoring the Second Annual Native Title Representative Bodies Legal Conference: The Past and Future of Land Rights and Native Title, 28-30 August 2001, at the Southbank Hotel and Convention Centre in...

Seminar series. (Native Title Research Unit).(The Limits and Possibilities of a Treaty Process in Australia)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Lisa Strelein, Visiting Research Fellow in the Unit, has convened the Research Sectionis Seminar Series The Limits and Possibilities of a Treaty Process in Australia in conjunction with ATSICis call for consideration of the topic. More than a...

Aboriginal Sydney: A Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present. (New Releases from Aboriginal Studies Press).
March 22, 2001... Aboriginal Sydney: A Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present Melinda Hinkson, with photographs by Alana Harris ISBN 0 85575 370 6 RRP $33 plus p&h Published by Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, this book has been researched...

Obituary.(Father Francis Stanislaus Flynn)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 22, 2001... Frank Flynn 1906-2000 Father Francis Stanislaus Flynn died in Sydney on 29 July 2000. His had been a long, productive and compassionate life during which he did inestimable good for countless people, especially Aboriginal people of the...