Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from September 2003

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from September 2003

Editorials.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... The publication of this issue of the AIATSIS journal, the second for 2003, brings us back to the schedule of issues distributed at mid-year and at the end of each year. This was not intended as a thematic volume, but we are able to present...

Dry rainforests: a productive habitat for Australian hunter-gatherers.
September 22, 2003... Abstract: Most recent work on hunter-gatherer use of rainforests has concluded that, although they are resource-rich, they are difficult environments for people to live in. This is largely because of the inaccessibility of many of the...

Australian ethnobotany: an overview.
September 22, 2003... Abstract: Australian ethnobotany maintains a common area of interest for a wide range of specialists, some of whom study the physical properties of plants and their potential for use by the wider community, while others focus upon the...

An assessment of the composition and nutrient content of an Australian Aboriginal hunter-gatherer diet.
September 22, 2003... Abstract: Detailed ethnographic records of hunter-gatherer subsistence diet among the Ngaatjatjarra Aboriginal people made by the ethnoarchaeologist, Richard Gould, in the Western Desert in 1969 have been analysed for nutrient composition using...

The fats of life.
September 22, 2003... Abstract: Indigenous Australian and Western views of animal fat, at least since the 1960s, have been starkly opposed. Westerners have learned to be highly suspicious of dietary fat, while Aboriginal peoples continue to extol the virtues and...

'Which bloke would stand up for Yalata?' The struggle of an Aboriginal community to control the availability of alcohol.
September 22, 2003... Abstract: Legislation to restrict the supply of alcohol has been introduced in many rural communities across Australia over the past ten to fifteen years. Overall these restrictions have been at the instigation of Aboriginal groups. This paper...

An evaluation of participatory planning at Mapoon Aboriginal community: opportunities for inclusive local governance.(Queensland Australia)
September 22, 2003... Abstract: The Queensland government is increasingly using participatory planning as a means to improve infrastructure and service delivery to Indigenous settlements. In addition to technical and economic goals, participatory planning practice...

The political and the personal process in portraiture: Juno Gemes in Conversation--National Portrait Gallery, August 2003.(photos of Australian aboriginal people)
September 22, 2003... NB: Ms Gemes asks that this caution be brought to the attention of our readers: Warning: Please be aware that this article contains portraits and names of Indigenous persons no longer with us. [Editor] As an historian and as a...

Child growth and Type 2 diabetes in a Queensland Aboriginal community.(Research Reports)
September 22, 2003... Indigenous health snapshot The health of Australia's Indigenous population falls well below that of its non-Indigenous population. In early life this is manifested in much higher rates of low birthweight, higher infant mortality, and...

Going back on our footprints.(Desmond Taylor's oral history project with Martu family from Western Desert)
September 22, 2003... This research note discusses an oral history project conducted in 2002-2003, (1) which focused on the last Martu family group to come in from the Western Desert, in 1965. The primary researcher on the project, Desmond Taylor, was one of that...

Counting, Health And Identity: a history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia And Queensland.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Counting, Health and Identity: A history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia and Queensland Gordon Briscoe Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2003, xxx + 390pp, ISBN 0855754478 Reviewed by Tim Rowse, Visiting...

Beautiful Lies: Population and environment in Australia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Beautiful Lies: Population and environment in Australia Tim Flannery Black Inc. (Quarterly Essay 9) Melbourne, 2003, vii + 73 pp, ISBN 186395396 Reviewed by Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The...

Ancestral Power: the dreaming, consciousness and Aboriginal Australians.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ancestral Power: The dreaming, consciousness and Aboriginal Australians Lynne Hume Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, ix + 210 pp, ISBN 052285012X Reviewed by Francoise Dussart, Associate Professor of Anthropology and...

Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers Ann Curthoys Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2002, xxii + 329 pp, ISBN 1864489227 Reviewed by David Andrew Roberts, University of New England, Armidale Ann Curthoys, the Manning Clark Professor...

Full Circle from Mission to Community: a family story.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Full Circle from Mission to Community: A family story Edie Wright Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2002, 320 pp, ISBN 1863332138 Reviewed by Thom Blake, author of A Dumping Ground: A history of the Cherbourg settlement ...

Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European children in nineteenth-century Western Australia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European children in nineteenth-century Western Australia Penelope Hetherington University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, 2002, ix + 246 pp, ISBN 1876268735 Reviewed by Sylvia...

Many Voices: Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Many Voices: Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich (editors) National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2002, xi + 324 pp, ISBN 0642107548 Reviewed by Sylvia Hallam, University of...

Photography's Other Histories.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Photography's Other Histories Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson (editors) Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2003, viii + 286 pp. [no ISBN] Reviewed by Catherine De Lorenzo, Faculty of the Built Environment,...

Nanda Villages of the Victoria District, Western Australia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Nanda Villages of the Victoria District, Western Australia Rupert Gerritsen Intellectual Property Publications, Canberra, ?2002, iii + 31 pp, ISBN 095810450 6 Reviewed by Sylvia Hallam, University of Western Australia This...

Walking with the Seasons in Kakadu.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Walking with the Seasons in Kakadu Dianne Lucas and Ken Searle Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003, 32 pp, ISBN 1865088676 Reviewed by Alex Barlow, Canberra Early on a July morning in 1983 I drove with Ruth Lipscomb from Darwin to...

Books received for review.
September 22, 2003... Attwood, Bain 2003 Rights for Aborigines, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, xiv + 410 pp, ISBN 1864489839. Barnes, Nancy 2000 Munyi's Daughter: A spirited brumby, Seaview Press, Henley Beach, SA, ix + 178 pp, ISBN 1740080734. Briskman, Linda 2003...

2003 Stanner Award.(News And Information; Australian aboriginal studies)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... In early December, Professor Ann Curthoys was awarded the 2003 Stanner Award prize for her book, Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers (Allen & Unwin). The Stanner Award acknowledges the significant contribution of the late Emeritus Professor...

Research fellows and visiting research fellows.(News And Information; Australian aborigine research)
September 22, 2003... Two Visiting Research Fellowships, three-year fixed-term positions in Research, have been advertised and are in the process of being filled: Social Organisation and Expressive Culture, and Cultural Transmission and Education. The former topic...

Research initiatives.(News And Information; Australian aborigines)
September 22, 2003... The Director of Research, Dr Luke Taylor, writes: Australian Collaboration The Institute has obtained Australian Collaboration1 funding to scope a research project to report on successful Indigenous leadership and strategies for...

Native title research unit.(News And Information; Australian aborigines)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Highlights of the activities of the NTRU during recent months include: * Successful organisation, and co-hosting with the Central Land Council, of Native Title Conference 2003: Native Title on the Ground, held in Alice Springs, 3-5 June...

NATSIVAD: lives of indigenous artists.(News And Information)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... A major database containing biographical details of Indigenous Australian visual artists that was originally prepared by Institute staff, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Artists Database, is being revised and updated....

Seminars.(News And Information; Australian aborigine studies)(Calendar)
September 22, 2003... In the second half of 2003, a series of seminars on the topic of Health and Society: An Australian Indigenous Context was convened by Graham Henderson, Heather McDonald and Jo Victoria. These are listed here. The next series of seminars...

Conferences.(News And Information; Australian aborigine studies)
September 22, 2003... Indigenous Researchers Forum successfully held This year, the annual Indigenous Researchers Forum was held in Canberra from 1 to 3 October. The IRF is an initiative of the six Indigenous Centres of Excellence located at various Australian...

Collections reports.(News And Information; Australian aborigine history)
September 22, 2003... Library Jann Kirkham writes: For a period of nine years, from 1967 to December 1976, Barrie Graham Dexter played a pivotal role in developing national government policies towards Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

Correction.(News And Information)(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2003... This figure--an engraving entitled A Family of New South Wales, 1792, inscribed "From a sketch by Governor King" and engraved and signed by the renowned artist and poet William Blake that was included as an illustration to King's journal...

Audiovisual Archives.(News And Information; AIATSIS acquires Jack Wherra recordings from 1960s and artwork by Charlie Tjapangarti)
September 22, 2003... Di Hosking writes: John McCaffery tapes The Institute has been fortunate to acquire, at auction, a set of recordings of Jack Wherra, recorded by John McCaffery at Mowanjum in the 1960s. In 1964, John McCaffery, a doctoral candidate...

News from Aboriginal Studies Press.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Treaty: Let's get it right! AIATSIS/ATSIC ISBN: 0 85575 433 8 Treaty: Let's get it right! is an important new title, published jointly by ATSIC and AIATSIS. It is a lively collection of essays from ATSIC's treaty think tank and...

Frank Gurrmanamana.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
September 22, 2003... 1920s-8 April 2003 Les Hiatt, AIATSIS and Kim McKenzie, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian National University, Canberra Frank Gurrmanamana died at Maningrida, Arnhem Land, on 8 April 2003. He was interred within the...

Alice (Ally) Ellen Kelly.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
September 22, 2003... 26 June 1919-30 June 2003 Isabel McBryde, AIATSIS In July this year many travelled to Balranald in western New South Wales to farewell Mrs Alice Kelly in a moving ceremony that melded Aboriginal and Christian spiritualities. In this it...

Kenneth Maddock.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
September 22, 2003... 14 May 1937-2 June 2003 Jeremy Beckett, University of Sydney 2006 Kenneth Maddock, who died in June, was born in New Zealand. He graduated in law at Auckland University in 1960, and began practising, but made this his daytime job,...

Judith Stokes OAM.(Obituaries)(The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)(Medal of the Order of Australia)(Obituary)
September 22, 2003... 30 June 1924-12 June 2003 Grace Koch, AIATSIS , and Julie Waddy, Church Missionary Society, Groote Eylandt Judith Stokes, Member of the Institute from 1968 to 1990, passed away on 12 June 2003. She was a woman ahead of her time,...

William Charles Wentworth AO.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
September 22, 2003... 8 September 1907-15 June 2003 Graeme K Ward, AIATSIS and Mick Dodson AM, Institute for Indigenous Australia, Faculty of Law, The Australian National University, Canberra The man instrumental in establishing the Australian Institute...

Ida Amelia West AM.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
September 22, 2003... 30 September 1919-8 September2003 Kaye Price, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian National University, Canberra Aunty Ida was born Ida Amelia Armstrong on 30 September 1919 on the Reserve at Cape Barren Island, which is...