Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from September 2004

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from September 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... In this issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies we present a diversity of articles. Michael Rowland considers the revival of the caricature of the 'noble savage'--or 'ecologically noble savage' existing in harmony with nature--that he has...

Return of the 'noble savage': misrepresenting the past, present and future.
September 22, 2004... Abstract: The view that a 'noble savage'/'ecologically noble savage' existed in peaceful harmony with nature is a concept that has permeated writings in anthropology, cultural studies, philosophy, political science, literary and art criticism,...

Aboriginal, Maori and Inuit youth suicide: avenues to alleviation?
September 22, 2004... Abstract: As a society, we react badly to suicide, especially by the young. We seek understanding of why youth do it, and we are determined on prevention. To date we have looked mainly to the Western medical/mental health model, one which...

Addressing indigenous suicide: a special case? A response to Colin Tatz.
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Colin Tatz's article on Aboriginal suicide prevention seeks to extricate indigenous psychiatry and suicide prevention from what he regards as domination by Western medical/mental health approaches. Although Tatz fails to do justice to...

What does it mean to say that Aboriginal suicide is different? Differing cultures, accounts, and idioms of distress in the context of indigenous youth suicide.
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Colin Tatz's article provides a provocative and ostensibly "different' perspective on indigenous suicide. There are multiple problems with the arguments and evidence presented, and the article, as a whole, is arguably more of a...

Incarceration of Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults, 1991-2001: trends and differentials.
September 22, 2004... Abstract: I examine trends in incarceration of Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults in Australia during the 11-year period from when the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) handed down its report in 1991. The data for...

Traditional owners and 'community-country' anangu: distinctions and dilemmas.(aboriginal land rights)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: In some contexts, including those that require concrete and locally specific knowledge, the term "traditional owner" has come to mean something different from its original statutory definition, in daily discourse, in the routine...

Transitional traditions: 'Port Essington' bark-paintings and the European discovery of Aboriginal aesthetics.
September 22, 2004... Abstract: The earliest surviving bark-paintings from northern Australia derive from the Cobourg Peninsula but until now little was known of their circumstances of collection. We examine 28 extant or described bark-paintings thought to be from...

Bennelong and Omai.(RESEARCH REPORTS; Australian aborigines arrive in England)
September 22, 2004... When it became known that Bennelong was to accompany Phillip on his return to England in 1793, expectations were raised that he would burst upon the London scene like his Tahitian predecessor 20 years earlier. Tench spoke of 'Baneelon, whom...

A Wardaman creation story by Bill Harney.(RESEARCH REPORTS)
September 22, 2004... This paper is a collaboration between the writer and the storyteller. Since Bill Harney gave his perceptions on tape and video recordings, the language usage largely follows his telling of the story. Bill is the senior Aboriginal elder of the...

Arresting resistance: a brief reply to Gillian Cowlishaw.(CORRESPONDENCE)
September 22, 2004... Gillian Cowlishaw's paper 'Euphemism, banality, propaganda' ranges across a broad battlefield. As far as this brief communication is concerned, I simply wish to take issue with a few critical comments that came my way in the section titled...

Aboriginal Economy and Society: Australia at the Threshold of Colonisation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Aboriginal economy and society: Australia at the threshold of colonisation Ian Keen Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2003, xxi + 436 pp, ISBN 0195507665 This book by distinguished anthropologist Ian Keen systematically...

Piercing the Ground: Balgo Women's Image Making and Relationship to Country.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Piercing the ground: Balgo women's image making and relationship to country Christine Watson Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003, 400 pp, ISBN 192073130X In July 2001 some hundred painted women were camping around the...

Two Sisters: Ngarta and Jukuna.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Two sisters: Ngarta & Jukuna Ngarta Jinny Bent et al. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2004, 143 pp, ISBN 19020731261 When we consider the regions where Indigenous Australians live today, we wonder how they came to be in...

Lost in the Whitewash: Aboriginal-Asian Encounters in Australia, 1901-2001.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lost in the whitewash: Aboriginal-Asian encounters in Australia, 1901-2001 Penny Edwards and Shen Yuanfang (eds) Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, viii + 167 pp, ISBN 0731533488 This...

Kaytetye Picture Dictionary.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Kaytetye picture dictionary Myfany Turpin, Alison Ross, and Kaytetye communities IAD Press, Alice Springs, 2004, x + 178 pp, ISBN 1864650583 For those working with Australian Indigenous languages, one of the challenges is to help...

Under a Bilari Tree I Born.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Under a bilari tree I born Alice Bilari Smith, with Anna Vitenbergs and Loreen Brehaut Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2002, 233 pp, ISBN 1863683917 Every biography of an elderly Aboriginal person is both a personal and a...

The Black Grapevine: Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The black grapevine: Aboriginal activism and the Stolen Generations Linda Briskman Federation Press, Sydney, 2003, viii + 213 pp, ISBN 1862874492 This is a handsome little book that purports to tell a big story, about the work of...

Changing Places: Re-Imagining Australia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Changing places: re-imagining Australia John Cameron (ed.) Longueville Books, Sydney, 2003, 312 pp + index, ISBN 192068106X This book is a collection of essays by participants in two colloquia on sense of place: one held in the...

Growing Up Kaytetye: Stories by Tommy Kngwarraye Thompson.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Growing up Kaytetye: stories by Tommy Kngwarraye Thompson Tommy Kngwarraye Thompson, compiled by Myfany Turpin Jukurrpa Books, IAD Press, Alice Springs, 128 pp, ISBN 1864650494 An arresting cover, with the title superimposed over an...

North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... North of Capricorn: the untold story of Australia's north Henry Reynolds Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003, xvi + 220 pp, ISBN 1865080306 Henry Reynolds' latest book marks an obvious point of departure from his earlier publications which...

Ngarla Songs.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ngarla songs Alexander Brown and Brian Geytenbeek Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003, 192 pp, ISBN 1920731733 The Pilbara is not a part of Australia that gets much attention in the literature. Of the traditional...

Shadow Lines.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Shadow lines Stephen Kinnane Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003, 414 pp, ISBN 1863682376 Shadow lines is a deeply moving biography of Stephen Kinnane's maternal grandmother, Jessie Smith (nee Argyle), removed in 1906...

Crossing Boundaries: Cultural, Legal, Historical and Practice Issues in Native Title.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Crossing boundaries: cultural, legal historical and practice issues in native title Sandy Toussaint (ed.) Melbourne University Press, 2004, xii + 248 pp, ISBN 052285074X Crossing boundaries makes a timely and valuable contribution...

Books received for review 2004/2.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2004... Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds) 2004 Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, x, 377 pp, ISBN 9027247617. Brady, Maggie 2004 Indigenous Australia and Alcohol...

Research Fellows and Visiting Research Fellows.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2004... Dr Jane Anderson, Visiting Research Fellow--Intellectual Property, continued her theoretical investigation into archives, archiving culture and documentation, the classification of Indigenous knowledge and the intellectual property (IP)...

Two new Research Fellows to start in January 2005.(Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies appointed Dr Anthea Taylor and Steven Kinnane )(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... The AIATSIS Research Program has appointed two Visting Research Fellows. Dr Anthea Taylor will take up the position of VRF--Cultural Transmission and Education at the end of January. Dr Taylor has had a long involvement in Aboriginal education...

Research initiative.(Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies's Native Title Conference 2004)
September 22, 2004... Toni Bauman and Sophia Close, Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project, Native Title Research Unit, write: The Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project (IFaMP) is now in its second year. The website----was launched at the Native...

Research seminar series.
September 22, 2004... In the second half of 2004, the seminar series covered a variety of topics rather than addressing a particular theme. Seminar conveners were Drs Lynley Wallis and Peter Veth. Abstracts of presentations made have been posted at . 2 August:...

Conferences.(Native Title Conference 2004, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
September 22, 2004... Stuart Bradfield, Visiting Research Fellow, Native Title Research Unit, writes: Native Title Conference 2004 The Native Title Research Unit of AIATSIS and the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (SA) Native Title Unit convened the fifth...

Collections report--library.(AIATSIS Library offers online magazines)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Rod Stroud, Acting Library Director writes: Two important new online exhibitions Dawn and New Dawn magazines are now online at . The AIATSIS Library has scanned the complete set of Dawn and New Dawn. Dawn and New Dawn were...

Collections report--audiovisual archives.
September 22, 2004... Neil Schomberg photographs David Jeffery, Collections Manager, Audiovisual Archives, writes: The AIATSIS Audiovisual Archives recently received a donation of over 500 photographs from Mr Nell Schomberg of Southport, Queensland. This...

News from aboriginal studies press.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Inspiring talk Frances Peters-Little (Research Fellow, History Program, RSSS, ANU) was ASP's guest speaker at 'Meet the Press' at the AIATSIS conference in November. Her challenging talk, 'Applying the practical to the unattainable', was...

2005 catalogue.
September 22, 2004... A new full-colour catalogue for 2005 is now available, free. Call (02) 6264 1200, or download it .

ASP website.(Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, (Aboriginal studies press))(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Changes to our website include 'ASP News', information on clearing copyright 'Permissions', and 'Join our mailing list'.

Brian Price Billington: 24 February 1923--6 August 2004.(medical officer of the Nutrition Unit on the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land)(Obituary)
September 22, 2004... Brian Price Billington, the medical officer of the Nutrition Unit on the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, died in Sydney on 6 August 2004. Brian was born in Birkenhead, England, on 24 February 1923, the only child of...

Wilfrid Henry Douglas: 1917-2004.(Obituary)(Biography)
September 22, 2004... From child immigrant to university guest lecturer without ever attending high school! Wilf had several talents that produced this amazing achievement. Firstly, he had an outgoing Irish personality that was never lost for words. Secondly, he had...

Allen Hall: 6 September 1918--August 2004.(Obituary)
September 22, 2004... When the then Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies made funding available for a big thrust to record Australian Aboriginal languages that were endangered or going out of use, four positions were made available at the University of...

Lorna Lippmann: 21 December 1921--16 June 2004.(Obituary)
September 22, 2004... Lorna Lippmann was a tireless advocate for Aboriginal rights to self-determination. Her commitment was underpinned by, in her own words, humanistic values of justice and concern for those less privileged. Lorna was formidable, even...