Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from March 2005

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from March 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... This collection of papers was originally inspired by a workshop on native title and archaeology hosted as part of the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Conference held in Adelaide in 2000. It received further impetus due to...

Archaeology, claimant connection to sites, and native title: employment of successful categories of data with specific comments on glass artefacts.
March 22, 2005... Abstract: This paper argues that Indigenous utilisation and manipulation of post-contact materials should be given more attention in both routine and native title-oriented archaeology. We analyse a range of categories of post-contact...

Contact archaeology and native title.
March 22, 2005... Abstract: Contact archaeology in Australia is emerging as an important tool in the independent 'verification' of claimants' testimony regarding the post-sovereignty occupation and use of particular parts of the landscape in a continuous and...

Archaeological evidence in the De Rose Hill native title claim.
March 22, 2005... Abstract: This paper examines the nature of some of the archaeological evidence used in the De Rose Hill native title claim. The archaeological evidence was not a point of contestation in this claim. Archaeological evidence gathered by the...

Nukun and Kungun Ngarrindjeri Ruwe (look and listen to Ngarrindjeri country): an investigation of Ngarrindjeri perspectives of archaeology in relation to native title and heritage matters.
March 22, 2005... Abstract: Australian archaeology has in past decades been subject to criticisms from Indigenous Australians for its treatment of and lack of consultation with their communities. Since these critiques the situation has changed and archaeologists...

Identifying Aboriginal 'contact period' sites around Darwin: long past due for native title?
March 22, 2005... Abstract: Stimulated by questions arising from my own experience as an expert witness in the Larrakia native title process, I report here on preliminary investigations aimed at identifying Aboriginal 'contact period' sites around Darwin,...

Native title archaeology: a synopsis of the role of archaeology in litigated native title determinations in Australia.
March 22, 2005... Abstract: The archaeological evidence used in litigated determinations has the ability to provide valuable data upon which archaeological practitioners can draw. Equally, the limitations of archaeology in native title to address issues of...

'Everyday archaeology': archaeological heritage management and its relationship to native title in development-related processes.
March 22, 2005... Abstract: This paper reviews various case studies to examine the capacity for including cultural processes and practices in the design and implementation of development-related cultural heritage projects that demonstrate the maintenance of a...

An-barra Archaeological Project: a progress report.(RESEARCH REPORT)
March 22, 2005... The aim of the An-barra Archaeological Project is to document archaeological sites located around the mouth of An-gacha Wana ('Big River', Blyth River) in central coastal Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory (Figures 1 and 2). These sites are...

Editors' notes on book reviews in two previous issues.
March 22, 2005... Regarding Joyce Hudson's review, published in the last issue, of the Kaytetye picture dictionary (Myfany Turpin, Alison Ross, Kaytetye communities; IAD Press): The Press has advised that a CD normally accompanies the dictionary; but it was not...

Are aborigines rooted?(Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Population mobility and Indigenous peoples in Australasia and North America John Taylor and Martin Bell (eds) Routledge, London and New York, 2004, xvi + 277 pp, ISBN 0415224306 'The growth of human mobility has been spectacular in...

Chewing the fat on health and illness.(Anmatyerr Ayey Arnang-akert: Anmatyerr plant stories by the women from Laramba (Napperby) community)(Addictions and healing in Aboriginal country)(Ngangkari work--Anangu way: traditional healers of Central Australia)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Anmatyerr Ayey Arnang-akert: Anmatyerr plant stories by the women from Laramba (Napperby) community Jenny Green (compiler) IAD Press, Alice Springs, 2003, xi + 104 pp, ISBN 1864650559 Addictions and healing in Aboriginal country...

Piercing the ground: Balgo women's image making and relationship to country.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Piercing the ground: Balgo women's image making and relationship to country Christine Watson Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003, 400 pp, ISBN 192073130X In July 2001 some hundred painted women were camping around the...

Contested country: a history of the Northcliffe area, Western Australia.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Contested country: a history of the Northcliffe area, Western Australia Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford UWA Press, Perth, 2003, xiv + 303 pp, ISBN 1920694005 Contested country is one of those detailed local histories which,...

Reform and resistance in Aboriginal education: the Australian experience.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Reform and resistance in Aboriginal education: the Australian experience Q Beresford and G Parrington (eds) University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 2003, vii + 312 pp, ISBN 192069403X Reform and resistance in Aboriginal...

Take 2: Housing Design in Indigenous Australia.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Take 2: housing design in Indigenous Australia Paul Memmott (ed.) Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Canberra, xi + 120 pp, ISSN 1447-1167 At the moment we keep foisting standard three-bedroom housing on people with...

Sojourn on another planet.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Sojourn on another planet Nancy Sheppard Gillingham Printers, Adelaide, 2004, 93 pp, ISBN 0646430483 This is an exceptional little book. Its humorous tone, brevity and limited distribution (Adelaide only) can easily deter from the...

Isabel Flick: the many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Isabel Flick: the many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman Isabel Flick and Heather Goodall Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004, xviii + 270 pp, ISBN 1741141230 What a woman! Reading an amazing story such as Isabel Flick: the many...

Indigenous Australia and alcohol policy: meeting difference with indifference.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Indigenous Australia and alcohol policy: meeting difference with indifference Maggie Brady UNSW Press, Sydney, 2004, 168 pp, ISBN 0868405353 Maggie Brady's latest book, Indigenous Australia and alcohol policy: meeting difference...

Mining and Indigenous lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Mining and Indigenous lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea A Rumsey and J Weiner (eds) Sean Kingston Publishing, Oxon, 2004, ix + 294 pp, ISBN 0954557239 In this book, the position is taken that previous political,...

Tom and Jack: a frontier story.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Tom and Jack: a frontier story Geraldine Byrne Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003, 303 pp, ISBN 1920731075 Geraldine Byrne's carefully researched social history tells the story of the overland cattle drives across...

Where the Ancestors walked: Australia as an Aboriginal landscape.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Where the Ancestors walked: Australia as an Aboriginal landscape Philip Clarke Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003, xii + 282 pp, ISBN 1741140706 Where the Ancestors walked has a nice feel to it. The cover photograph (by Penny Tweedie) of...

Paddy's road: life stories of Patrick Dodson.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Paddy's road: life stories of Patrick Dodson Kevin Keeffe Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2003, 394 pp, ISBN 0855754486 In 1971, when I was teaching at St Mary's School in Broome, the principal decided to set up after-school...

Books received for review.
March 22, 2005... Bagshaw, Geoffrey 2003, The Karajarri claim: a case-study in native title anthropology, University of Sydney, Sydney, 108 pp, ISBN 1864875925. Broome, Richard 2005, Aboriginal Victorians: a history since 1800, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, xxv +...

Research grants awarded by council, May 2005.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
March 22, 2005... RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED BY COUNCIL, MAY 2005 Grant no. Grantee Project Amount 7011 Jean Boladeras Interracial marriage in Nyungar $5,560 society ...

Seminar series.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Calendar)
March 22, 2005... The first semester 2005 seminar series, on Native Title, Decision-making and Conflict Management, was convened by Toni Bauman and Catherine Pledge of the AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit's Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project....

Conferences.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
March 22, 2005... AIATSIS Native Title Conference 2005 Diana McCarthy writes: The Native Title Research Unit (NTRU) convened the Sixth Annual National Native Title Conference: The Human Face of Native Title, in conjunction with New South Wales Native...

Collections report--library.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
March 22, 2005... Mirranen Archive: a reference guide to the published papers of the RH Mathews Archive Barry Cundy writes: Combining his work as surveyor in New South Wales and his interest in Aboriginal peoples, Robert Hamilton Mathews took the...

Collections report--audiovisual archive.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
March 22, 2005... Oral histories from the Canning Stock Route Marisa Harris writes: In 1987, Tom Baxter led an 18-day four-wheel drive expedition from Fitzroy Crossing to Wiluna, Western Australia. The purpose of the journey was to uncover the...

Book launches.(NEWS FROM ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS)(Brief article)
March 22, 2005... Mutton fish (Cruse, Stewart & Norman) was launched at the Monaroo Bobberrer Gudu Keeping Place at Eden in May and later at the AIATSIS Native Title Conference in Coifs Harbour in June. Paint me black (Claire Henty-Gebert) was launched at...

Recently published.(NEWS FROM ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS)(Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Uncommon ground: white women in Aboriginal history Anna Cole, Victoria Haskins and Fiona Paisley (eds), RRP $34.95 Some of the latest and most interesting work on race and gender studies combine in this unique showcase. Each chapter...

New editions/reprints.(NEWS FROM ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS)(Brief article)
March 22, 2005... Aboriginal Australia wall map The map can now be viewed on the ASP website . Clicking on small areas reveals enlargements for easier reading and a compass lets you navigate the map. A new smaller version will also be available in...

Forthcoming titles.(NEWS FROM ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS)
March 22, 2005... ASP will be publishing Unresolved constitutional business?: rethinking Indigenous self-determination (Hocking ed.) RRP $39.95 in September, and Landscapes of Indigenous performance: music and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land (Magowan...

ASP website.(NEWS FROM ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS)
March 22, 2005... To ensure that you receive information relevant to your work or interests, add your details to 'Join our mailing list' on the website from the link on the home page. You can read the two quarterly e-newsletters at ASP News.

Ephraim Bani: 1944-2004.(In memoriam)
March 22, 2005... Barry Alpher () writes: Ephraim began the linguistics part of his career with his collaboration with Terry Klokeid in 1970. This resulted in a series of papers in a volume co-edited by Bani and Klokeid (1971; Bani 1971a-d; Bani & Paipai...

Carl Georg von Brandenstein: 10 October 1909-8 January 2005.(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... Born in 1909 in Hannover, Germany, Carl Georg Christoph von Brandenstein began recording Australian languages in the 1960s in the Pilbara. Over the next 30 years he also recorded information about Ngadjumaya from the south-east of Western...

Mervyn J Meggitt: 1924-2004.(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... One of the Institute's most distinguished Foundation Members, Professor Mervyn Meggitt, died at the age of 80 on 13 November 2004, after a long and illustrious career in anthropology. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, a...

Alice Marshall Moyle AM: 1908-2005.(In memoriam)
March 22, 2005... Alice Marshall Moyle (nee Brown), one of the seminal figures in Australian ethnomusicology and a founding member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (ALAS) passed away in Sydney on 9 April 2005. Music was ever present in the...

Percy Trezise OA: 1923-2005.(In memoriam)
March 22, 2005... Percy Trezise was a remarkable Australian whose contributions in the fields of aviation, art, writing and Australian studies were recognised in his Order of Australia awarded in 1996. Percy was born a country boy on a farm in northeastern...

Bruce Veitch: 1957-2005.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... Dr Bruce Veitch passed away in Perth in mid-March 2005 after a short battle with motor neurone disease. Bruce was married to archaeologist Fiona Hook and had a young son, Conall. Bruce was a co-director of the cultural heritage company...

Paddy Wamma Ungudman: c. 1922-2004.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... Again we hear that another old Ngarinyin lawman--the senior munnumburra (1) for Morrorronggo country (2)--has passed away. His whitefella name of Paddy Wamma will survive right there in black and white as a principal claimant on the Wanjina...