Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from September 1997

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from September 1997

Marriage networks among Australian Aboriginal populations.
September 22, 1997... Most people do not marry people who are too close, household members for example. However, nor do they marry people who are too far, such as total strangers to themselves or their family. In other words, they typically marry people with whom they...

Aboriginal identity: legislative, judicial, and administrative definitions.
September 22, 1997... In this paper it is not proposed to canvass the various theories which sociologists and political scientists have formulated to explain the process by which laws are made. My intention is to show how the same expressions to define or describe...

The CDEP scheme: a case of welfare colonialism. (Community Development Employment Projects, Australia)
September 22, 1997... Introduction The underlying aim behind the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is the reduction of Aboriginal unemployment by replacing the welfare nexus between the Department of Social Security (DSS) and the...

The West Pilbara engraving cast project.
September 22, 1997... For almost two years the people of Roebourne have been enjoying the results of a project jointly funded by AIATSIS and the former Western Australian Department of Aboriginal Sites (DAS) to produce casts of West Pilbara Aboriginal rock art for...

Naming and personal names of Ngaatjatjarra-speaking people, Western Desert: some questions related to research.
September 22, 1997... Personal names seem not to be of major interest to Australian Aboriginal anthropology, and studies on this topic, already pointed out by Francoise Dussart in 1988, are relatively sparse.(1) And yet they are of major concern to the researcher,...

Talking About Celia ... Community and Family Memories of Celia Smith.
September 22, 1997... Talking about Celia... Community and Family Memories of Celia Smith J. Bell University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1997, ISBN 0702228338 Reviewed by Kathleen Schilling Jeannie Bell found as her own political awareness grew that she was...

Between Two Worlds.
September 22, 1997... Between Two World R. MacDonald Australian Archives & IAD Press, Alice Springs, 1995, pp 78, ISBN 0 949659 87 8 Reviewed by Kathleen Schilling George Nichols, director-general of the Australian Archives, provides a foreword to the book and the...

The Aboriginal Tasmanians.
September 22, 1997... The Aboriginal Tasmanians Lyndall Ryan Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996, 2nd edn, pp 380, ISBN 186373 965 3 Reviewed by Philip A. Clarke, senior curator of anthropology, South Australian Museum. The first edition of The Aboriginal Tasmanians was...

All Free Man Now: Culture, Community and Politics in the Kimberley Region, North-Western Australia.
September 22, 1997... All Free Man Now: Culture, Community and Politics in the Kimberley Region, North-Western Australia Patrick Sullivan Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Report Series, 1996, pp xiv + 130, ISSN 1038-2372, ISBN 0...

Un Long Chemin Seme d'Objets Cultuels: Le Cycle Initiatique Aranda (A Long path Strewn with Cult Objects: The Aranda Initiation Cycle).
September 22, 1997... Un Long Chemin Seme d'Objects Cultuels: Le Cycle Initiatique Aranda (A Long Path Strewn with Cult Objectives: The Aranda Initiation Cycle M. Moisseeff Cahiers de l'homme, 33, Paris, 1995, pp 280, ISBN 2 7132 1190 5, ISSN 0068-5046 Reviewed by...