Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from March 2007

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from March 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... Digitisation of Indigenous cultural resources Greater access to Australian Indigenous cultures and resources and preservation of at-risk materials are benefits expected from an additional $10.2 million provided in the Federal Budget to...

The moral lexicon of the Warlpiri people of central Australia.
March 22, 2007... 1. Introduction 2. Words that match 'Good' and 'Bad' 3. Examples of 'Good' and 'Bad' behaviour Good Bad 4. Analysis Proper/Improper Sexual relationships. Affinal reserve. ...

Mobs and bosses: structures of aboriginal sociality.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: A commonality of Aboriginal social organisation exists across the continent in communities as different as those from the Western Desert across to Cape York, from the towns of New South Wales and Western Australia to cities like...

Recognising victims without blaming them: a moral contest? About Peter Sutton's 'The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Policy in Australia since the 1970s' and Gillian Cowlishaw's replies.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: Peter Sutton's texts on Aboriginal violence, health and their politicisation are replied to using his methodology, and acknowledging his convincing points. Sutton rightly denounces a lack of lucidity and scientific objectivity in...

'You would have loved her for her lore': the letters of Daisy Bates.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: Daisy Bates was once an iconic figure in Australia but her popular and academic reputation became tarnished by her retrograde views. Her credibility was also put in doubt through the exposure of her fictionalised Irish background. In...

What potential might narrative therapy have to assist indigenous Australians reduce substance misuse?
March 22, 2007... Abstract: Substance misuse is associated with adverse consequences for many Australians including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Extensive research has been conducted into various intervention, treatment and prevention programs...

Bone points from the Adelaide River, Northern Territory.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: Large earth mounds located next to the vast floodplains of the lower Adelaide River, one of the major tropical rivers draining the flat coastal plains of northern Australia, contain cultural material, including bone points. The...

A different look: comparative rock-art recording from the Torres Strait using computer enhancement techniques.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: In 1888 and 1898, Cambridge University's Alfred C Haddon made the first recording of rock-art from the Torres Strait islands using photography and sketches. Systematic recording of these same paintings and sites was carried out from...

Sources of bias in the Murray Black collection: implications for palaeopathological analysis.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: The Murray Black collection of Aboriginal skeletal remains has been a mainstay of bio-anthropological research in Australia, but relatively little thought has been given to how and why this collection may differ from archaeologically...

A late Pleistocene site on Watarrka Plateau, Central Australia.(RESEARCH REPORT)(Report)
March 22, 2007... Palaeoclimatic research suggests that the period between 13 000 and 6000 BP is likely to have seen some of the most favourable conditions for hunter--gatherer settlement in the interior of the continent. The northern monsoon system...

Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and Cultural Studies (second edn).(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and Cultural Studies (second edn) Stephen Muecke API Network, Australian Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth xi, 2005, 194pp, ISBN 1920845100 It is somewhat misleading to call this a...

A World of Relationships: Itineraries, dreams, and events in the Australian Western Desert.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... A World of Relationships: Itineraries, dreams, and events in the Australian Western Desert Sylvie Poirier University of Toronto Press, London and Toronto, 2005, xi+303 pp, ISBN 0802035442 How fortunate we are! Balgo has been the subject of...

Reconciliations.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Reconciliations Agnes Toth and Bernard Hickey (eds) API Network, Perth, 2005, x + 209pp ISBN 1920845194 Although its cover photograph of a bridge appears to signal one of the more common metaphors for reconciliation, Toth and Hickey's book...

A Man of All Tribes: The life of Alick Jakomos.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... A Man of All Tribes: The life of Alick Jakomos Richard Broome and Corinne Manning 2006 Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006, xiv+298pp, ISBN 0855755016 I know a country baker who came to Australia as a boy after WWII and with his first pay...

Rob Riley: An Aboriginal leader's quest for justice.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Rob Riley: An Aboriginal leader's quest for justice Quentin Beresford Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2006, xvi+374pp, ISBN 0855755024 On 30th April 1996 Aboriginal activist and leader Robert Riley--born Robert Dinah, and...

Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation Elizabeth Burns Coleman Ashgate, Aldershot, UK and Burlington VT, 2005, xviii+188pp ISBN 0754644030 It is a great pleasure to review this book because it provides original answers to many...

Sharing Spaces: Indigenous and non-Indigenous responses to store, country and rights.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Sharing Spaces: Indigenous and non-Indigenous responses to store, country and rights Gus Worby and Lester-lrabinna Rigney (eds) 2006 API Network Australia Research Institute, University Technology Sydney, 2006, xviii+470pp ISBN 1920845208 ...

Aboriginal Darwin: A guide to exploring important places.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Aboriginal Darwin: A guide to exploring important places Toni Bauman 2006 Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 150pp, ISBN 085575446X My interest in this book comes not from being an expert in Aboriginal matters, nor the history of Darwin,...

Books received for review.
March 22, 2007... Bassani, Paddy and Albert Lakefield with Tom Popp 2006 Lamalama Country: Our country, our culture-way. Bruce Rigsby and Noelene Cole (eds). Akito in association with Arts Queensland, Brisbane, x+70pp, ISBN 0646456865. Chenhall, Richard...

Research grants awarded by council, May 2007.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Table)
March 22, 2007... Research Grants Awarded by Council, May 2007 Grant number Grantee Project title Amount 7242 Maia Ponsonnet Semantics of reason $9,256.38 and...

Research seminars.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Calendar)
March 22, 2007... The first semester seminar series 'Country, Law, Knowledge and Culture: Indigenous natural and cultural resource management in Northern Australia' was jointly organised by AIATSIS and Charles Darwin University. The conveners were: Steve...

Collection report--library: Yes! The 1967 referendum: new online exhibition by AIATSIS Library.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Pat Brady, Collections Manager, writes: To commemorate forty years since this significant event, the AIATSIS Library has prepared an online exhibition which draws together many valuable resources on the history of the 1967 Referendum. ...

Collection report--audiovisual archives: Carnarvon and Norseman Mission Photographs.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Veronica Falco, Acting Curator, Pictorial Collection, writes: A family photo album providing images of life on Carnarvon and Norseman Missions in Western Australia in the 1950s, was recently deposited with the AIATSIS Audiovisual Archive by...

News from aboriginal studies press.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
March 22, 2007... Award won Professor Beresford's Rob Riley won the nonfiction section of the Western Australia Premier's Literary award, announced 8 June. Author appearances Professor Martin Nakata spoke to a keen audience at the Sydney Writers'...

Peter John Ucko 1938-2007.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
March 22, 2007... Peter Ucko, who recently died aged 68 from complications brought on by diabetes, was first attracted to Australia by our teacher, Phyllis Kaberry, at the Anthropology Department at University College London (UCL). One of my first memories of...

Tribute to Peter Ucko.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
March 22, 2007... Ken Colbung, Aboriginal elder, Perth My first experience of Peter Ucko was in Canberra when Peter became the new Principle of the Institute of Aboriginal studies--and when I first met him he invited me to stay at his house. Peter invited...

Mrs Kumunjayi Joshua (nee Foster) 1951-2006.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
March 22, 2007... On 6 July 2006 we saw the passing of Mrs Kumunjayi Joshua (nee Foster), a Warumungu woman who had a wide-ranging impact on linguistics and applied linguistics for Aboriginal languages in the Northern Territory, in a career spanning 30 years....

Dr George Musgrave 1920-2006.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
March 22, 2007... Dr George Musgrave passed away suddenly at Laura, North Queensland, on 9 February 2006, aged 86 years. George was an elder, a 'main man', of the Kuku Thaypan or Awu Laya people, well-known and respected throughout Cape York Peninsula, and...