Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from September 2002

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from September 2002

Editorial.(Editorial)
September 22, 2002... Tourism is a major industry in Australia, employing six percent of the working population and directly contributing nearly five percent of GDP in the year ending June 2001 (1). Despite setbacks nationally in provision of transportation and...

Embodied places in indigenous ecotourism: the Yarrawarra research project.
September 22, 2002... Abstract. Little research has been done on how places with shared Indigenous and colonial pasts are communicated to tourists. One problem is that many tourists lack an understanding of Indigenous cultural landscapes and have stereotyped views...

'Ah that I could convey a proper idea of this interesting wild play of the natives': corroborees and the rise of Indigenous Australian cultural tourism.
September 22, 2002... Abstract: The nineteenth century Aboriginal corroboree performed for non-Indigenous settler audiences was Australia's pre-eminent prototypical Indigenous cultural tourism product. Options for the development of this product by both Aborigines...

Lightning strikes twice: conflicts in perception of painted images.
September 22, 2002... Abstract: Indigenous Australian cultural heritage places, especially those containing rock-paintings and carvings, increasingly are the subject of cultural tourism. While tourism operators and those responsible for site management have tended...

Indigenous Cultural Tourism as part of the Birdsville/Strzelecki experience.
September 22, 2002... Abstract: An examination of some issues relating to inclusion of Australian Indigenous cultural heritage in a recent heritage tourism study carried out along the Birdsville and Strzelecki Tracks in South Australia and Queensland. Tourism...

The ebb and flow of tourism at Lal Lal Falls, Victoria: a tourism history of a sacred Aboriginal site.
September 22, 2002... Abstract: The Lal Lal Falls, situated within the traditional country of the Wathawurrung people, is one of Victoria's most significant Indigenous cultural sites, as it is one of several recorded living sites of Bundjil--the Kulin peoples'...

'Alien abductions', Kimberley Aboriginal rock-paintings, and the speculation about human origins: on some investments in cultural tourism in the northern Kimberley.
September 22, 2002... Abstract: Controversy over the origins of the 'Bradshaw' or Gwion paintings of the northern Kimberley are considered in the context of the very pragmatic struggle over land, Indigenous Australian economic interests and the representations that...

Indigenous tourism in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, North Queensland.(Research Reports)
September 22, 2002... The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (WHA) was declared in 1988. It covers an area of 894 420 hectares and mainly includes tropical rainforest extending from Townsville to Cooktown in northeastern Queensland. It is managed by the Wet Tropics...

Torres Strait rock-art: an enhanced perspective.(Research Reports)
September 22, 2002... Torres Strait, strategically located between the mainlands of Australia and New Guinea, has long fascinated anthropologists and archaeologists as a 'bridge and barrier' to the movement of peoples and cultural traits. Of particular interest has...

The Murray Islands archaeological project: results of recent archaeological analyses.(Research Reports)
September 22, 2002... I report two significant advances in our knowledge of the human occupation of the Torres Strait: new radiocarbon estimates for the antiquity of settlement of the Murray Islands, eastern Torres Strait, and a description of the recovery and...

Indigenous Futures: Choice and development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Indigenous Futures: Choice and development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia Tim Rowse University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, xii+270pp. ISBN: 0 868 40605 8 The origin of this book lay in a plan to write a synthesis of the first...

Taking choice seriously: reply to Hal Wootten.(Response)
September 22, 2002... Tim Rowse, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, In the discourse both of government and of social science Indigenous Australians are assumed to make choices. In the 1985 Miller...

A Dumping Ground: a History of the Cherbourg Settlement.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... A Dumping Ground: A History of the Cherbourg Settlement Thom Blake University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001, xiii+320pp., ISBN 0 702 2322 2X Starting with the genesis of government policy based on isolating Aboriginal peoples from...

Forty Years On. Ken Hale and Australian languages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Forty Years On. Ken Hale and Australian languages J. Simpson, D. Nash, M. Laughren, P. Austin and B. Alpher (eds) The Australian National University, Canberra (Pacific Linguistics), 2001, xvii+528pp., ISBN 0 858 8352 4X Forty Years On...

The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge Francoise Dussart Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, 2000, xvi+269pp., ISBN 1 560 98393 0 This book, as...

We Won the Victory: Aborigines and outsiders on the North-West Coast of the Kimberley.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... We Won the Victory: Aborigines and outsiders on the North-West Coast of the Kimberley Ian M. Crawford Fremantle Arts Centre Press, North Fremantle, WA, 2002, 335pp., ISBN 1 863 68344 5 Crawford, who writes that he is now a 'retired'...

Goodbye Bussamarai: the Mandananji land war, Southern Queensland 1842-1852.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandananji land war, Southern Queensland 1842-1852 Patrick Collins University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2002, xxix+305pp., ISBN 0 702 23293 9 Patrick Collins' book makes a valuable contribution to the current...

White Out: How politics is killing black Australia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... White Out: How politics is killing black Australia Rosemary Neill Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2001, xii+311pp., ISBN 1 865 08855 2 It is thirty years since anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner ruptured what he termed 'the great Australian...

People of the Rivermouth: the Joborr texts of Frank Gurrmanamana.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... People of the Rivermouth: The Joborr texts of Frank Gurrmanamana Les Hiatt, Kim McKenzie, Betty Ngurrabangurraba, Betty Meehan, and Rhys Jones National Museum of Australia and Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2002, xviii+198pp., bound with...

The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838 John Connor University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2002, xii+175pp., ISBN 0 868 40756 9 Connor's book is an immensely interesting and readable treatise on Australian frontier wars. Military...

Emplaced Myth: Space, narrative and knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Emplaced Myth: Space, narrative and knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea Alan Rumsey and James F. Weiner (eds) University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2001, vii+281pp., ISBN 0 824 82389 3 This timely and stimulating...

Dictionary of Aboriginal Placenames of Victoria.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Dictionary of Aboriginal Placenames of Victoria Ian D. Clark and Toby Heydon Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages, Melbourne, 2002, 275pp.+CD-ROM, ISBN 0 957 93602 8 Dictionaries of placenames have in the past consisted mainly of...

Pila Nguru: the Spinifex People.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People Scott Cane Fremantle Arts Centre Press, North Fremantle, WA, 2002, 260pp., ISBN 1 863 68348 8) On 28 November 2000 the Federal Court sat for a few minutes under a temporary shade outside the Tjuntjuntjara...

Telling Stories: Indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Telling stories: indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand. Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan (editors) Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2002, xi+269pp., ISBN 1 865 08554 5 This book is a compilation of ten articles on...

Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change Lesley Head Arnold, London (Key Issues in Environmental Change series) / Oxford University Press, New York, 2000, xxv+179pp., ISBN 0 340 73114 1 This work has a wide scope, combining a range of...

It's Not the Money It's the Land: Aboriginal stockmen and the equal wages case.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... It's Not the Money It's the Land: Aboriginal stockmen and the equal wages case Bill Bunbury Fremantle Arts Centre Press, North Fremantle WA, 2002, 192pp., ISBN 1 863 68366 6 Bill Bunbury has crafted a fascinating read in his new work, It's...

An Annotated Bibliography of Theses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at the University of Queensland, 1948 to 2000.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... An Annotated Bibliography of Theses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at the University of Queensland, 1948 to 2000 Sean Ulm, Anna Shnukal and Catherine Westcott (compilers and authors). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

Books received for review.
September 22, 2002... Attenbrow, V. 2002 Sydney's Aboriginal Past: Investigating the archaeological and historical records, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, xiii+225pp., ISBN 0 868 40585 X. Attwood, B. and F. Magowan (eds). 2001 Telling Stories:...

2002 Stanner Award winner.(News And Information)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The AIATSIS 2002 Stanner Award went to Dr Heather McDonald for her book Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an east Kimberley town. The award was announced by Dr Mick Dodson on behalf of the AIATSIS Council. He drew attention to...

Conferences and workshops.(News And Information)(Calendar)
September 22, 2002... An interdisciplinary workshop exploring the diversity of influences on artists' personal and social expression, and reflecting on the process of innovation and repetition in the artistic process was organised by Research Fellow, Dr Richard...

Seminars.(News And Information)(Calendar)
September 22, 2002... In the second half of 2002, a series of seminars on the topic of Land and Sea Management was convened by Jessica Weir and Geoff Gray. Forthcoming seminars will be posted at . Date Presenter 29 July Patrick Sullivan,...

Research fellows and visiting research fellows.(News And Information)
September 22, 2002... Dr Luke Taylor, Director of Research, is continuing his work with bark painters in the Maningrida region of north-central Arnhem Land. Recently he examined the movement of these artists into the production of sculpture, now a key activity...

Native title research unit.(News And Information)
September 22, 2002... 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. The NTRU continues to publish the Native...

Research toward an indigenous perspective of Darwin.(News And Information)
September 22, 2002... Ways of Seeing Aboriginal Darwin: A guide to important places of the past and present is the working title of a book to follow similar AIATSIS publications about other Australian cities, Aboriginal Sydney: A guide to important places of the...

Ngiya--talk the law: National Institute of Indigenous Law Policy and Practice.(News And Information)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Ngiya is a newly created Institute that has a presence within the Research Section of AIATSIS. Ngiya is part of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at UTS and has partnership arrangements with AIATSIS. Administrative staff and some research...

Family history unit.(News And Information)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The Family History Unit organised the Indigenous Family History Fair that was held in Lismore from Saturday 30 November to Monday 2 December. Other organisations that participated were the State Library of New South Wales, State Records of NSW,...

Collections report.(News And Information)
September 22, 2002... Library: Hale manuscripts on Australian Indigenous languages A recent acquisition to the Library's Manuscript Collection includes correspondence of the linguist, Professor Ken Hale, and Sara Whitaker Hale documenting their 'Australian...

News from aboriginal studies press.(News And Information)(Aboriginal Stars of the Turf: Jockeys of Australian Racing History)(Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian Homeland)(Through a Smoky Mirror: History and Native Title)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Aboriginal Stars of the Turf: Jockeys of Australian racing history, by John Maynard, 2002, vii+112pp., b&w photographs, ISBN 0 85575 384 6 pb, RRP $19.95 John Maynard comes from both Aboriginal and racing backgrounds. He knows first-hand...

Bill Rosser: 1927-2002.(Obituaries)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 22, 2002... Bill Rosser was published by UQP in 1990, his book being Up Rode the Troopers: The Black Police in Queensland. It was a successful book and garnered Bill much praise. While I did not know Bill well, I did get to know him a little when he...

Guboo Ted Thomas: 1909-2002.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
September 22, 2002... Edwin Thomas, or Guboo Ted Thomas as he was better known, was many things to many people. My comments are restricted mainly to that period when I was most closely associated with him during the 1970s and 1980s in the NSW land rights struggle...

Margaret McArthur Oliver: 1919-2002.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
September 22, 2002... Annie Margaret McArthur was born in Ararat, Victoria on 6 December 1919. After attending The University of Melbourne (1938-1942) where she graduated BSc and MSc in Biochemistry, she undertook a post-graduate course in Nutrition at the...