Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from September 1998

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from September 1998

Anthropological texts and Indigenous standpoints.(studying aborigines of Torres Straits, between Australia and New Guinea)
September 22, 1998... Introduction 1998 marks the centenary of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait. This was an expedition of ambitious proportion and logistics, an expedition at the cutting edge of new scientific disciplines and...

Customary exchange in the Torres Strait.(trading routes)
September 22, 1998... In most Melanesian `exchange' practices, goods pass from hand to hand over short distances. Many individual exchange transactions are the essential structural framework of the long-distance movement of goods through a `trading network', a...

Relations between Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea since Haddon.(19th-century explorer and scholar A.C. Haddon)
September 22, 1998... It can be argued that the economic relationship between the people of Torres Strait and those of Papua New Guinea was fairly reciprocal or even. Indeed, it has been suggested that Islanders were relatively dependent on Papuans because it was...

The `black white-man': Torres Strait Islander and Papuan participation in the post-war pearl-shell industry.(strait between Australia and New Guinea)
September 22, 1998... Introduction Previous historical studies have focused on the extent to which Pacific Islander immigrants and their descendants transformed and, in some cases, dominated the island communities of the Torres Strait (Mullins 1990; Shnukal...

N.N. Miklouho-Maclay in Torres Strait.(Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay, 19th century Russian natural scientist)
September 22, 1998... Introduction The researcher is constantly in search of contemporary source documents that may have been overlooked. My current research interest is nineteenth century Torres Strait and I was keen to read the journals of the Russian natural...

`Bethlehem' in Torres Strait: music, dance and Christianity in Erub (Darnley Island).
September 22, 1998... The songs of the eastern Torres Strait Islanders have an important place in the history of Melanesian musicology, for they were among the earliest songs to be recorded onto wax cylinders using the phonograph, and to be analysed scientifically....

Dating rock images in the tropical monsoon region of northern Australia.
September 22, 1998... Introduction One of the most exciting research frontiers in Australian prehistory over the past five or so years has been the emerging possibility of applying advanced absolute dating methods--in particular, accelerator mass spectrometry...

A selected bibliography of the traditional languages of Torres Strait.
September 22, 1998... In preparation for a paper on Sidney Herbert Ray (1858-1939), the linguist with the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, I had occasion to view Ray's archive, deposited in the School of Oriental and African Studies...

Justice All Their Own: The Caledon Bay and Woodah Island Killings 1932-1933.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Justice All Their Own: The Caledon Bay and Woodah Island Killings 1932-1933 Ted Egan Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp xxv + 244, ISBN 0 52284 693 9 Having just read another of Ted Egan's books, The Paperboy's War (Kerr...

No Ordinary Judgment.(Review)
September 22, 1998... No Ordinary Judgment Nonie Sharp Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1996, pp xxv + 290, ISBN 0 85575 287 4 The Meriam people's claim over the Murray Islands resulted in the most significant recognition of Indigenous peojoles'...

Warlpiri Women's Voices: Our Lives, Our History.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Warlpiri Women's Voices: Our Lives, Our History Warlpiri Karnta Karnta-Kurlangu Yimi Stories collected by Georgina Napangardi and Janet Nakamarra Long and edited by Petronella Vaarzon-Morel IAD Press, Alice Springs, 1995, ISBN 0 949659...

The Road to Australia.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Road to Australia Vladimir Kabo Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1998, pp xii + 326, ISBN 0 85575 312 9 Vladimir Kabo has written a love story of his lifelong passion to know and visit Australia. The Road to Australia is a...

The 1967 Referendum, or When Aborigines Didn't Get the Vote.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The 1967 Referendum, or When Aborigines Didn't Get the Vote B. Attwood and A. Markus, in collaboration with D. Edwards and K. Schilling Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, Canberra, 1997, pp xi + 155, ISBN 0 85575 311 0 William...

`A Good Show': Colonial Queensland at International Exhibitions.(Review)
September 22, 1998... `A Good Show': Colonial Queensland at International Exhibitions J.M. McKay Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 1, part 2, April 1998, pp 343, illustrated, bibliography, ISSN 1440 4788 A well-written...

Aboriginal English.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Aboriginal English J.M. Arthur Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996, ISBN 0 19554 018 2 Interest in Aboriginal English as a distinct variety of English has grown steadily since the publication of English and the Aboriginal...

A New Look at the String Figures of Australia's Yirrkala Aborigines.(Review)
September 22, 1998... A New Look at the String Figures of Australia's Yirrkala Aborigines H.C. Maude and M.A. Sherman Bulletin of the International String Figure Association (vol 2, 1995, 87-187) In 1948 Fred McCarthy made a collection of string...

Calling of the Spirits.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Calling of the Spirits Eileen Morgan Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1994, pp xx + 171, ISBN 0 85575 255 6 Eileen Morgan was born at Wallaga Lake, on the south coast of New South Wales, in 1922. Her father was a traditional...

AIATSIS Council visit to the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area of Cape York, 1-3 July 1998.(Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
September 22, 1998... The Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies met on Thursday Island on 2 July 1998 as part of a three-day visit to Thursday Island and the Northern Peninsula Area (NPA), Cape York. During its visit,...

Mutawintji handback, 5 September 1998.
September 22, 1998... Exactly 15 years after Wiimpatja (Paakantji for `Aboriginal people') blockaded the entrance to the Mootwingee Historic Site for the week of the Broken Hill centenary celebrations, a ceremony was held at Mutawintji to celebrate the passing of...

Research grants awarded by council, May 1998.
September 22, 1998... Andrews, J: Bringing up our children: Aboriginal families in Victoria. $5000 Armidale Region Aboriginal Cultural Centre Keeping Place Inc.: Culture and education project. $5000 Bani, M: Torres Strait material culture project. $10,000...

1999 RESEARCH GRANTS.
September 22, 1998... Application booklets for 1999 research grants are now available from the Research Administrator. Please use this new form if you intend to lodge an application for funding in 1999. Application forms are also available from the AIATSIS home page...

LETTER FROM LR HIATT TO THE BBC.(response to program 'Dr Miller and the Islanders')
September 22, 1998... LR Hiatt 79 Addison Way London NW11 6AR Telephone (0181) 458 3139 The Director Horizon, BBC2 February 26th, 1998 Dear Sir/Madam, I very much enjoyed your programme `Dr Miller and the Islanders'. Whatever expectations his hosts...

THE NATIVE TITLE RESEARCH UNIT.
September 22, 1998... The Native Title Research Unit identifies pressing research needs arising from the recognition of native title, conducts relevant research projects to address these needs, and disseminates the results. In particular, we publish a regular...

Rare Books Collection.
September 22, 1998... The AIATSIS rare books collection contains over 1400 books and pamphlets surveying the history of European writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, from the observations of the First Fleet, through to the central works of...

Family History Resources.
September 22, 1998... During 1998 the Family History Unit purchased `Aboriginal Protection Board' minutes of meetings. The meeting years range from 1890 to 1939 and also include the minutes of `Welfare Board' meetings 1939-69. Both series are on microfilm in the...

MUNTJA NUNGURRAYI c 1937-1997.
September 22, 1998... Muntja Nungurrayi passed away on 30 April 1997 at Derby Hospital at the age of about 60. Muntja lived most of her life in Wirrimanu Community, formerly the Balgo Hills Catholic mission, established in the early 1940s on the northwestern fringe...

EDWARD ARRENYE JOHNSON.
September 22, 1998... Edward Arrenye Johnson, a senior Arrernte custodian for the Simpson Desert, passed away in early August. In accord with his wishes, he died in the town fringe camp at White Gate. This was where I met him fifteen years ago, an event that greatly...