Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from September 2005

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from September 2005

Guest editorial.(Editorial)
September 22, 2005... Governance is increasingly a dominant interest in Indigenous affairs as the following studies, reports and inquiries demonstrate: * The 2004 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Report...

'We got our own management': local knowledge, government and development in Cape York Peninsula.
September 22, 2005... Abstract: In examining the growing interrelationship of local knowledge and projects of government among Aboriginal Australians I draw on ethnographic material to reveal the tensions and complexities of land- and natural-resource management...

Lungmarama Yolngu nha: (1) a week in the life of an outreach program.
September 22, 2005... Abstract: The Yolngu of north-eastern Arnhem Land have lived with alcohol for just over 30 years. For some, particularly those who permanently or transiently camp on the fringes of the predominantly non-Indigenous township of Nhulunbuy, it has...

Using the 'power of the data' within indigenous research practice.
September 22, 2005... Abstract: Quantitative methods, especially when used on large-scale data sets such as NATSIS and census collections, are powerful analytical research tools. Yet the use of such methods is relatively rare among Indigenous Australian researchers....

Rage, reason and the honourable cause: a reply to Cowlishaw.(Gillian Cowlishaw)
September 22, 2005... Abstract: In 2003 Gillian Cowlishaw published a confrontational attack on a paper that I had published earlier on the subject of 'The politics of suffering' in Aboriginal Australia. While this reply takes up and answers her main points, it also...

Droppin' conscious beats and flows: aboriginal hip hop and youth identity.
September 22, 2005... Abstract: Hip hop culture is significant in Aboriginal youth identity formation. I examine the culture of "conscious' Australian hip hop as practised by three hip hoppers from the East Coast: Little G and MC Wire, both Aboriginal, and...

Shoes of invisibility and invisible shoes: Australian hunters and gatherers and ideas on the origins of footwear.
September 22, 2005... Abstract: Apart from a single brief paper written by DS Davidson and published in 1947, and a detailed description of bark sandals from the Tanami desert region by DF Thomson in 1960, most attention in relation to Aboriginal Australian footwear...

High-resolution digital photomosaic recording of rock-art.(RESEARCH REPORT)
September 22, 2005... Baseline recording should be the top priority in the fight to retain and preserve rock-art. Not only are old and so far durable images facing new environmental and industrial threats, but an entire body of recent paintings, including those of...

Dream trackers: Yapa art and knowledge of the Australian desert.(Audiovisual review)
September 22, 2005... Dream trackers: Yapa art and knowledge of the Australian desert Barbara Glowczewski Unesco Publishing, Paris, 2000, ISBN 9230037745 (CD-ROM) In 1979 Barbara Glowczewski, a young Parisian student undertaking doctoral research in...

The health of Indigenous Australians.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The health of Indigenous Australians Neil Thomson (ed.) Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2003, xxxi+519pp, ISBN 0195512200 Western settler societies' brutal colonisation produced genocidal policies towards Indigenous peoples;...

Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Balanda: my year in Arnhem Land Mary Ellen Jordan Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005, viii+224pp, ISBN 1741142806 Unanticipated questions of Balanda and Aboriginal relations await Mary Ellen Jordan when she takes a position at the arts...

Rene Baker file #28/E.D.P.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Rene Baker file #28/E.D.P. Rene Powell and Bernadette Kennedy Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005, 221pp, ISBN 1920731997 There have been many accounts concerning that most disastrous social experiment that was conducted particularly...

Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English dictionary.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English dictionary Amee Glass and Dorothy Hackett (compilers) IAD Press, Alice Springs, 2003, vii+743pp, ISBN 1864650532 Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra, two varieties of the Western Desert...

Mutton fish: the surviving culture of Aboriginal people and abalone on the south coast of New South Wales.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Mutton fish: the surviving culture of Aboriginal people and abalone on the south coast of New South Wales Beryl Cruse, Liddy Stewart and Sue Norman Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2004, xiii+118pp, ISBN 0855754826 Mutton fish...

Aboriginal Victorians: a history since 1800.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Aboriginal Victorians: a history since 1800 Richard Broome Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005, xxv+467pp, ISBN 1741145694 Whistling in the Windschuttle or deafened by dog whistles? In a normally objective climate, Richard Broome's...

Aboriginal suicide is different: a portrait of life and self-destruction.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Aboriginal suicide is different: a portrait of life and self-destruction Colin Tatz Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2005 (2nd edn), xxv+191pp, ISBN 0855754982 Having recently been involved in the development of a suicide...

Their way: towards an Indigenous Warlpiri Christianity.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Their way: towards an Indigenous Warlpiri Christianity Ivan Jordan Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, 2003, xxx+57pp, ISBN 1376248874 Ivan Jordan's Their way: towards an Indigenous Warlpiri Christianity is not an academic...

Botany Bay: where histories meet.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Botany Bay: where histories meet Maria Nugent Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005, xiv+256pp, ISBN 1741145759 Not another book about Botany Bay, I thought. What more could be said about a dull low-lying stretch of sand and low scrub...

Books received for review.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2005... Beckett, J 2005, A study of Aborigines in the pastoral west of New South Wales, Oceania Monograph 55, University of Sydney, 164pp, ISBN 1864877189 Cramer, J 2005, Sounding the alarm: remote area nurses and Aboriginals at risk, University...

Research staff.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2005... Dr Jane Anderson, Visiting Research Fellow, Intellectual Property, completed her Rockefeller Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution's Centre for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. While in the United States, Dr Anderson also gave lectures at...

Research seminar series.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2005... The second semester 2005 seminar series--'Writing Indigenous Historical Narratives'--was convened by Geoffrey Gray and Steve Kinnane. Abstracts of seminars presented are available at . 23 May 2005: Kura yeye boorda (The past, today and the...

Collections report--library.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... Mirranen Archive: a reference guide to the published papers of RH Mathews Archive Barry Cundy writes: Combining his work as surveyor in New South Wales and his interest in Aborigines, Robert Hamilton Mathews took the opportunity to...

Collections report--audiovisual archive.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2005... Marisa Harris, Senior Curator (Audio), writes: The Archive recently received three recordings of interviews with renowned Kija artists Queenie McKenzie and Peggy Patrick. The women relate several stories about animals as well as...

Weh Stanner conference.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... A two-day conference, commemorating the centenary of the birth of the Institute's co-founder, Professor WEH Stanner, was convened by Drs Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett during November at the Australian National University (). It was...

Strangers on the shore conference 2006.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... This conference on early coast contacts with Australia, planned for 30 and 31 March 2006 at the National Museum of Australia, includes four themes: Indigenous maps of landscape; Indigenous narratives of contact; contact as a two-way process;...

Indigenous Museum Collections conference 2006.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2005... The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, a three-day conference to be held at The Age Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Melbourne Museum, Rathdowne Street, Carlton, will run from Thursday 9 to Saturday 11 February 2006....

National Archives of Australia grants.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... Rani Austin, project officer, Accessibility Development, Access and Communication, National Archives of Australia, writes: Through its grants and awards program National Archives invests in Australia's cultural development. We support...

News from Aboriginal Studies Press.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... Please take a moment to read about ASpTM's new publications which include three children's titles. Also of note are the backlist titles that we've recently put back into print. In the Reference category we have just made available a new,...

New titles.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2005... Unfinished Constitutional Business? Rethinking Indigenous self-determination Edited by Barbara Ann Hocking ISBN 0 85575 466 4, RRP $39.95, pb SELF DETERMINATION / CONSTITUTIONAL LAW A multi-jurisdictional exploration of...