Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from March 2004

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from March 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... The first group of major articles in this issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies deals primarily with matters relating to historical and archaeological heritage in northern and western Australia, ranging from the Torres Strait, through Arnhem...

Aboriginal-Makassan interactions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in northern Australia and contemporary sea rights claims.
March 22, 2004... Abstract: The first native title claim to the seas under the Native Title Act was brought by the traditional owners of Croker Island in the Northern Territory, Australia. This claim was partially successful. The High Court judgement on this...

Archaeology of Torres Strait turtle-shell masks: the Badu cache.
March 22, 2004... Abstract: Turtle-shell masks are distinctive Tortes Strait Islander objects that were used during ritual performances, and carefully curated, during ethnographic times. Yet the history of these rituals and their material expressions are poorly...

Putting Herbert Basedow back in focus: the 1928 expedition to Arnhem Land.
March 22, 2004... Abstract: In 1928 ethnographer and geologist Herbert Basedow undertook a privately funded expedition through western Arnhem Land. The photographs he took on that trip constitute some of the first photographic images of western Arnhem Land...

'Exotic Bradshaws' or Australian 'Gwion': an archaeological test.
March 22, 2004... Abstract: 'Bradshaws', Aboriginal rock-art figures in the Kimberley, recently have become a focus of increased interest and publication. We discuss six recent pieces of work relevant to the suggestion that they are of exotic, rather than...

'Stoning fish?' A hitherto unrecorded class of stone artefact from the coastal Pilbara.
March 22, 2004... Abstract: Yodda-like stone artefacts from the coastal Pilbara region of Western Australia differ markedly from recorded yoddas and constitute a hitherto unrecorded Aboriginal Australian stone implement. I suggest that the implements were...

The rock-art of Central Australia: an overview.(Papers From Symposium B Of The Aura2000 Conference)
March 22, 2004... Abstract: Central Australia has long been recognised as containing a regionally distinct suite of rock-art; its character has, however, still to be adequately defined. The rock-art exhibits a range of techniques, with each technique having its...

'These things take time': Central Australian rock-art in context.(Papers From Symposium B Of The Aura2000 Conference)
March 22, 2004... Abstract: The continuing discussion about Indigenous perspectives and understandings of rock-art has implications for archaeological research, especially in Central Australia where rock-art is a significant part of Aboriginal life today. We...

Rock-art and the archaeological record of Indigenous settlement in Central Australia.(Papers From Symposium B Of The Aura2000 Conference)
March 22, 2004... Abstract: This article provides an overview of archaeological and radiocarbon evidence relevant to the interpretation of Central Australian rock-art. Archaeological assemblages span a period of approximately 30 000 years that was anything but...

Women who hunt with fire: Aboriginal resource use and fire regimes in Australia's Western Desert.(Research Report)
March 22, 2004... A significant component of Australia's biotic web has been shaped by Aboriginal firing practices. Moderate burning on a regular basis decreases the potential for devastatingly large wildfires, increases the richness of plant species, and has an...

First and last: dating people and extinct animals in Australia.(Research Report)
March 22, 2004... Thirty years ago, a radiocarbon date of 'more than forty thousand years' from Lake Mungo became both a slogan for Indigenous pride and a challenging focus for archaeological science. It wasn't much of a date (and consequently never published)...

Rights for Aborigines.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Rights for Aborigines Bain Attwood Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003, xiv + 410 pp, ISBN 1864489839 Ronald Dworkin's argument, in Taking rights seriously (1981), that rights are trumps that should prevail over all but the most...

Afterlife before Genesis.(Genesis Regained)(The Spirit Lives)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Afterlife before Genesis David H Turner Peter Lang, New York, 1997, xxiv + 267 pp, ISBN 0820434779 Genesis regained David H Turner Peter Lang, New York, 1999, 312 pp, ISBN 0820444049 The spirit lives David H Turner Peter...

Dark sparklers: Yidumduma's Wardaman Aboriginal astronomy Northern Australia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Hugh Cairns and Bill Yidumduma Harney Cairns, Sydney, 2003, xxi + 226 pp, ISBN 0975090801 Reviewing Dark sparklers has been both a pleasurable and a frustrating experience. It is a mine of detailed information about a particular story...

Sydney's Aboriginal past: investigating the archaeological and historical records.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sydney's Aboriginal past: investigating the archaeological and historical records. Val Attenbrow University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2002, xiii + 225 pp, 46 colour plates, ISBN 086840585X Firstly, it has to be said that...

Sex, maiming and murder: seven case studies into the reliability of Reverend ERB Gribble, Superintendent, Forrest River Mission 1913-1928, as a witness of the truth.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sex, maiming and murder: seven case studies into the reliability of Reverend ERB Gribble, Superintendent, Forrest River Mission 1913-1928, as a witness of the truth Rod Moran Access Press, Bassendean WA, 2002, xiv + 149 pp, ISBN...

Indigenous futures: choice and development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Indigenous futures: choice and development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia Tim Rowse University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2002, xii + 270 pp, ISBN 0868406058 This is an intriguing exercise. Tim Rowse is one of the...

The artificial horizon: imagining the Blue Mountains.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The artificial horizon: imagining the Blue Mountains Martin Thomas Melbourne University Press, 2003, viii + 313 pp, ISBN 0522850723 Martin Thomas' cultural study of the Blue Mountains is developed using a familiar technique of...

Ich reiste wie ein Buschmann: Zum Leben und Wirken des Australienforschers Erhard Eylmann.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Ich reiste wie ein Buschmann: Zum Leben und Wirken des Australienforschers Erhard Eylmann [I travelled as a man of the bush: on the life and activity of the Australianist researcher Erhard Eylmann] Wilfried Schroeder Science...

Shadow lines.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Shadow lines Stephen Kinnane Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003, 414 pp, ISBN 1863682376 Community exists beyond country; damaged, but linked by blood, by skin and by claimed kin, it rises up out of what has...

Counting, health and identity: a history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia and Queensland.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Counting, health and identity: a history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia and Queensland Gordon Briscoe Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2003, 335 pp, ISBN 0855754478 The back cover of Counting, health...

Books received for review.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2004... Brown, Alexander and Brian Geytenbeek 2003, Ngarla songs, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 192 pp, ISBN 1920731733 Byrne, Geraldine 2003, Tom and Jack: a frontier story, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 303 pp, ISBN 1920731075...

New principal of AIATSIS.(News And Information)
March 22, 2004... The Council of the Institute at its meeting on 27 May 2004 appointed the current acting Principal, Mr Steve Larkin, as Principal. Mr Larkin's five-year appointment commenced on 1 June 2004. In advising staff, the Chair of Council, Professor...

Aiatsis Research Program.(News And Information)(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... Peter Veth, acting Director of Research, writes: AIATSIS, in collaboration with the Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland, the Menzies School of Health Research, and Flinders University, has had five expressions of...

Native Title Conference 2004, Adelaide.(Conferences)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Siv Parker writes: NTRU and the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (SA) convened the Native Title Conference 2004: Building Relationships, held in Adelaide from Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 June 2004. This national conference is now in its...

AIATSIS Conference 2004, Canberra.(Conferences)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... The Institute's second major conference this decade will be held at the Manning Clark Centre at the Australian National University, 22-25 November 2004. The first announcement has been published at: . The aim of the conference is to...

Watercolour portraits acquired.(Collections Report--Library)
March 22, 2004... Dr Barry Cundy writes: Recent acquisitions by the Library include a sheet of four watercolour portraits of Aborigines from the Sydney region. The portraits are identified in pencil as being of: * Yango Mungo ye Yango of the Bathurst...

Electronic features and resources within Mura[R].(Collections Report--Library)
March 22, 2004... Veronica Falko writes: The AIATSIS Collections on-line catalogue Mura[R] has recently undergone a change of interface, iLink, as it is called, features a straightforward, user-friendly design. Among its special features, Mura[R] allows...

Likan'mirri--connections.(Collections Report--Audiovisual Archives)
March 22, 2004... Karen Shepherd writes: Likan'mirri--Connections, the AIATSIS Collection of Art, was an exhibition of the most important artworks held by the Institute, sponsored by the Australian National University Institute for Indigenous Australia...

Ernest E Kramer photographs.(Collections Report--Audiovisual Archives)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... David Jeffery writes: This year the AIATSIS Audiovisual Archives purchased a photo album compiled by Ernest E Kramer, missionary of the Aborigines' Friends Association, containing images taken during two of his 'camel caravan' tours...

National Indigenous Languages Survey 2004--can you help?(Collections Report--Audiovisual Archives)
March 22, 2004... Sally McNicol writes: AIATSIS is undertaking a national survey of Australian Indigenous languages. We are seeking information about material relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages and culture. The purpose of the...

News from Aboriginal Studies Press.(News And Information)
March 22, 2004... Aboriginal Studies Press has had a busy six months with Very Big Journey launched in Darwin in January, Paddy Cahill of Oenpelli published in March, Reading doctors' writing launched in Melbourne and Darwin in April and Woven histories, dancing...