Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from March 2002

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from March 2002

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... Joe Lewis Juluma's bold, spare depiction of Bradshaw station country around the Victoria River District graces the front cover and is the subject of the first article in this issue. Andrew McWilliam discusses Lewis' work in the context of...

Re-figuring Bradshaw: art, place and landscape in the Victoria River District.
March 22, 2002... Abstract: The emergence of legislation dealing with Aboriginal land rights, native title and cultural heritage protection has provided a range of prospective avenues for the recognition and protection of minority Indigenous land interests in...

Weapons and wunan: production, function and exchange of Kimberley points.
March 22, 2002... Abstract: We describe the production, function and exchange of projectile points in the Kimberley region, northwestern Australia. Our aims are to identify problems in the interpretation of residues and use-wear, and to assess whether aspects of...

Aboriginal bark burial: 700 years of mortuary tradition in the Central Queensland Highlands.
March 22, 2002... Abstract: There has been a long interest in the burial practices of the Central Queensland Highlands, most notably the burial of the deceased in often highly decorated bark coffins. This has led to considerable speculation as to the antiquity...

Geophagy: an assessment of implications for the development of Australian Indigenous plant processing technologies.
March 22, 2002... Abstract: The practice of geophagy, in particular the consumption of clay and charcoal by humans, is global in its distribution, is of considerable antiquity and has a number of complex functions. One of these functions is the ability of clays...

Sociospatial structures of Australian Aboriginal settlements.
March 22, 2002... Abstract: This article is concerned with the 'sociospatial patterns' of Australian Aboriginal settlements, which are herein defined as the division of settlements into spatial zones, each occupied by an aggregate of domiciliary groups and...

The struggle for recognition: a native title story from Peak Hill, New South Wales.(Research Reports)
March 22, 2002... From 1995 to 1999 I worked on a native title claim in Peak Hill, central-western New South Wales, prompted by an application to reopen the open-cut goldmine on the hill above the town. This hill forms an important part of the history of the...

Working on Country: Contemporary Indigenous Management of Australia's Lands and Coastal Regions.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Working on Country: Contemporary Indigenous Management of Australia's Lands and Coastal Regions Richard Baker, Jocelyn Davies and Elspeth Young (eds) Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001, xxiv + 351 pp, ISBN 0195512170 ...

Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature C. Bradford Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, viii + 283 pp, ISBN 0522849547 Reviewed by Julie Marcus, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst Reading Race addresses...

Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police Chris Cunneen Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001, ix + 310 pp, ISBN 1864487194 Reviewed by Judy Putt, Commonwealth Public Service This book represents the author's lifelong...

Forgetting Compliance: Aboriginal Health and Medical Culture.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Forgetting Compliance: Aboriginal Health and Medical Culture K. Humphrey, T. Weeramanthri and J. Fitz Northern Territory University Press in association with Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health, 2001, xi + 122 pp,...

The Indomitable Miss Pink: a Life in Anthropology.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology Julie Marcus University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2001, xv + 340 pp, ISBN 0868405477 Reviewed by Geoffrey Gray, AIATSIS The Indomitable Miss Pink is a sympathetic portrait of...

Talkin' up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Talkin' up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism Aileen Morton-Robinson University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 2000, xxv + 234 pp, ISBN 0702231347 Reviewed by Larissa Berendt, University of Technology Sydney Reading...

Aboriginal Suicide is Different: a Portrait of Life and Self-destruction.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Aboriginal Suicide is Different: A Portrait of Life and Self-destruction C. Tatz Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2001, xiii + 249 pp, ISBN 0855753714 Reviewed by Richard D. Chenhall, London School of Economics This volume,...

Mission Girls: Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia 1900-1950.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Mission Girls: Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia 1900-1950 C. Choo University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 2001, 350 pp, ISBN 1876268557 Note by Hannah McGlade, AIATSIS Mission Girls is a...

Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines D. Unaipon The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, xlviii + 232 pp, ISBN 0522849059 Note by George Boeck, AIATSIS David Unaipon's collection of pleasantly told and...

Books received for review.
March 22, 2002... Abramson, J.A. 2000 Art in Nonliterate Societies--Structural Approaches and Implications for Sociocultural and System Theories, New Issues Press, Western Michigan University, xxvii + 420 pp, ISBN 0932826334. Anderson, W. 2002 The...

Tom Austen Brown Collection: a comprehensive milestone.(Collections Report)
March 22, 2002... The breadth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies has presented significant opportunity for the AIATSIS Library to maintain a broad range of collection interests. These opportunities also represent the challenge of monitoring and...

Treaty: a selection of material from the AIATSIS Library.(Collections Report)
March 22, 2002... The AIATSIS Library has commenced a two-year Library Digitisation Program, which is funded by ATSIC. The primary aim of the program is creating, managing and delivering electronic information resources and services to clients via the AIATSIS...

Innovation and repetition in indigenous Australian Art.(Workshops)(Calendar)
March 22, 2002... This interdisciplinary workshop invites participants to explore the diversity of influences on artists' personal and social expression and to reflect on the process of innovation and repetition in the artistic process. The workshop will be held...

Workshop on genealogies AIATSIS, October 5-6 2002.(Workshops)(Calendar)
March 22, 2002... There is a wide range of computational approaches to producing genealogies available and some are being used by researchers and organisations in Australia, for instance in Native Title and Family and Community History. There is also a...

Seminars.(News And Information)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
March 22, 2002... The theme of the Institute's Seminar Series for April-June 2002 was 'Cattle Business: Pastoralism and Land Resources'. 8 April: Richard Davis, Research Fellow, AIATSIS Society, ecology and pastoralism: aspects of Aboriginal cattle ownership...

Research grants awarded by council, 2002.(News And Information)(Illustration)
March 22, 2002... RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED BY COUNCIL, 2002 Grant no. Grantee Project Amount 6609 Aboriginal Resources Recording of Gurrangay $32,000 and Development Matha terms...

Preserving endangered language heritage project.(Audiovisual Archive)
March 22, 2002... Since September 2000, the Institute has been in receipt of an ATSIC grant to undertake much-needed technical work and documentation of the recorded sound collection. The unit has two staff: Marisa Harris, who is the Language Archive Researcher...

News from aboriginal studies press.
March 22, 2002... Indigenous People and Governance Structures: A Comparative Analysis of Land and Resource Management Rights, edited by Garth Nettheim, Gary D. Meyers and Donna Craig, ISBN 0 85575 379 X, 489pp, 27x20.5cm, $59.95 (includes GST) plus postage. ...

Professor Rhys Jones, AO Australian archaeologist 26 February 1941--19 September 2001.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
March 22, 2002... Rhys was born in Wales, attended a grammar school in Cardiff and won a scholarship to Cambridge University in 1959 where he studied basic sciences and mathematics, and archaeology and anthropology, participating in excavations and travelling in...