Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from September 1999

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from September 1999

Editorial.(Australian Aboriginal Studies)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... This issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies reflects the range and diversity of interests that come under the rubric of Aboriginal studies. George Morgan explores the forms of surveillance, especially moral surveillance, that Aboriginal tenants...

The moral surveillance of Aboriginal applicants for public housing in New South Wales.
September 22, 1999... The 1960s was a key decade in the history of colonial relations. In the period since the establishment of reserves in the mid-nineteenth century, the state had largely sought to separate Indigenous people and their culture from European...

Black modernity and bureaucratic culture.
September 22, 1999... This paper presents some ethnographic material(1) and some anthropological insights in response to a question that can be posed as follows: what happened to the eager, young, educated anti-racists who flocked to the Northern Territory to assist...

The last archaeologist? Material culture and contested identities.
September 22, 1999... Material culture provides what Buchli (1995) calls `brutally physical' resources, linked to history and the past, which can be drawn on in an active process of re/creating cultural identities. Consequently, the use of material culture as the...

`Wellnigh impossible to describe': dioramas, displays and representations of Australian Aborigines.
September 22, 1999... Writing and `doing' history is, as Greg Dening (1996:xiii) reminds us, a `performance' and like any performance, to be successful, an audience is required. Exhibitions and displays also need an audience: someone needs to see, experience and...

Culture, ethics and participatory methodology in cross-cultural research.
September 22, 1999... For marginal groups to improve their positions in society, the struggle is not restricted to economic and political spheres, but encompasses as well the realm of ideas. This ideational dimension has produced a novel responsibility for social...

The fate of an Aboriginal cricketer: when and where did Dick-a-Dick die?
September 22, 1999... In his history of the first cricket team from Australia to tour England--the Aboriginal team of 1868--Mulvaney recorded that one of the members of the team, known as Dick-a-Dick, was still alive in 1884. In the chapter `After Stumps', where he...

Regional archaeological research in the Palmer River catchment.(Illustration)
September 22, 1999... The Palmer River catchment (Figure 1) is one of seven river systems with headwaters in the Amadeus Basin, itself part of the larger Lake Eyre Basin, one of the most extensive regions of inland drainage in the world. Throughout human history,...

Indigenous voices at WAC4.(World Archaeological Congress in Cape Town, South Africa)
September 22, 1999... A growing commitment to Indigenous voice in the form of the involvement of Indigenous Australians in the communication of research results is apparent in the number of Aboriginal people who attended WAC4, the meeting of the World Archaeological...

FAREWELL TO STEPHEN WILD.(Obituary)
September 22, 1999... Stephen Wild continues the tradition of fine scholarship of ethnomusicology at AIATSIS. Stephen took over from Alice Moyle, the first Research Officer in Ethnomusicology, and has continued the standard of excellence. He was very well suited to...

NEWS FROM ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS.(Brief Article)(Review)
September 22, 1999... New title Love against the Law: The Autobiographies of Tex and Nelly Camfoo, recorded and edited by Gillian Cowlishaw, ISBN 0 85575 348 X, RRP $26.95 (GST incl.) plus postage. The stories of Tex and Nelly Camfoo provide a reflection on...