Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from September 2006

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from September 2006

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and healing.(Editorial)
September 22, 2006... The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UN 1948) came into being when the European empire was being dismantled and a new post-colonial era was heralded. The Declaration stated that everyone has the right to life and liberty, meaningful...

AIATSIS Conference: September 2007.
September 22, 2006... Theme: 'Forty Years On: Citizenship, political transformation and sustainability' Dates: Monday evening 5 to Thursday 8 November 2007 Venue: The Australian National University's Manning Clark Centre. The conference will...

Australian federalism and Aboriginal health.
September 22, 2006... Abstract: In this paper we explore the changing relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Australian state within the context of Australian federalism. Our particular focus is on the relationship between the institutional organisation of...

Evidence-based policy making in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
September 22, 2006... Abstract: Evidence-based policy making in health is of great importance when addressing issues of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequalities. I explore the role of evidence in influencing the decisions of policy makers, and...

Putting the users of research in the driver's seat: the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health's new approach to research development.
September 22, 2006... Abstract: Research has a bad name in many Aboriginal communities. There is an often quoted phrase that 'Aboriginal people are the most researched in the world', and that researchers take from communities in order to gain academic qualifications...

The Universal Citizen: an indigenous citizenship framework for the twenty-first century.
September 22, 2006... Abstract: The present urgency across the world is for Indigenous peoples to take leadership in addressing the spiritual and humanist inadequacies of Western cultural development. It is time to join with others who have found their way out from...

Trying to make a difference: a critical analysis of health care during pregnancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.(Medical condition overview)
September 22, 2006... Abstract: This paper critically examines pregnancy health care and services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, to explore the question of what might 'make a difference'. More antenatal care, and in particular Aboriginal women...

'Gettin em n keepin em': Indigenous issues in nursing education.
September 22, 2006... Abstract: The health of Indigenous Australians has been unacceptable for many years. Generations have never recovered from the effects of colonisation, genocide, and attempted assimilation. Introduced diseases, poor nutrition, dislocation of...

They used to call it Sandy Blight: Aboriginal health and censorship in Australia.
September 22, 2006... Abstract: In 1977, a documentary film entitled They used to call it Sandy Blight was produced by independent filmmakers on the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program, a program to survey and treat the eye health of rural Australians,...

Raising the profile of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men's health: an Indigenous man's perspective.
September 22, 2006... Abstract: This is a statement paper of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men's health issues and recent policy initiatives at the national level. During colonisation, Indigenous men were dispossessed of land and livelihood, status and...

'If we come together our health will be happy': Aboriginal men seeking ways to better health.
September 22, 2006... Abstract: This paper arose out of research with men of the Western Desert of the Kimberley, Western Australia. While Aboriginal health is well known to be poor, not much is known about Aboriginal male experiences and perspectives of their...

East Kimberley concepts of health and illness: a contribution to intercultural health programs in northern Australia.(Disease/Disorder overview)
September 22, 2006... Abstract: East Kimberley concepts of health and illness can be discussed within a framework of Aboriginal cosmologies, ontologies, and relational practices. In Australian Aboriginal traditions, the cosmos and its life-forms were composed of...

Shifting expectations of treatment: from 'patient as individual' to 'patient as social person'.
September 22, 2006... Abstract: With focus on an all-Aboriginal community in rural central-western New South Wales, and developing the notion of treatment as ' a site of negotiation', I illustrate the socially and culturally distinctive understandings of what it...

The rise and fall of Daisy O'Dwyer.(RESEARCH REPORT)
September 22, 2006... A while ago I gave some thought to becoming a 'blogger' but in the event settled for the less ambitious project of an e-diary with occasional memoirs intended for an audience of family and friends. The editor of Australian Aboriginal Studies...

Radiocarbon dates from middens around Darwin Harbour: cultural chronology of a pre-European landscape.(RESEARCH REPORT)
September 22, 2006... Radiocarbon estimates from recent salvage excavations of Anadara-dominated mounded midden sites at Wickham Point just south of Darwin double the number of this type of cultural deposit in this area known to date to the period 500 to 2000 BP....

Whither anthropology?(COMMENT)
September 22, 2006... It is disappointing that Peter Sutton (Australian Aboriginal Studies 2005/2) responded so very selectively to my criticism of his article 'The politics of suffering' and instead chose to mount a general attack on some of my published work. Let...

Recognizing Aboriginal title: the Mabo case and Indigenous resistance to English-settler colonialism.
September 22, 2006... Recognizing Aboriginal title: the Mabo case and Indigenous resistance to English-settler colonialism Peter H Russell University of Toronto Press Inc., 2005, xii+470pp including notes, bibliography and index, ISBN 0802038638 Upon...

Many exchanges: archaeology, history, community and the work of Isabel McBryde.
September 22, 2006... Ingereth Macfarlane with Mary-Jane Mountain and Robert Paton (eds) Aboriginal History, Canberra (Monograph 11), 2005, xxxv+412pp, ISBN 0958563772 As one who maintains only a cursory interest in Australian archaeology, I found this book...

Peopling the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal history in western Central Australia 1850-1980.
September 22, 2006... Peopling the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal history in western Central Australia 1850-1980 Michael A Smith Aboriginal History, Canberra (Monograph 12), 2005, 103pp, ISBN 0958563780 Peopling the Cleland Hills--the latest in the...

Eye contact: photographing Indigenous Australians.
September 22, 2006... Eye contact: photographing Indigenous Australians Jane Lydon Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005, xxvi+303pp, ISBN 0822335727 I begin this review with an admission. Not versed in the arcane language of postmodernist...

Compromised jurisprudence: native title cases since Mabo.
September 22, 2006... Compromised jurisprudence: native title cases since Mabo Lisa Strelein Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2006, xii+218pp, ISBN 0855755334 Dr Lisa Strelein has, for some years, headed the Native Title Research Unit at AIATSIS...

The grog book.
September 22, 2006... The grog book Maggie Brady Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2005, revised edition, xii+254pp, ISBN 0642826277 The grog book is an information package for persons who are dealing with alcohol use and misuse....

Correction to a review in the 2005/2 issue.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2006... Doug Marmion writes: In my review of the Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English dictionary, compiled by Amee Glass and Dorothy Hackett, I made the following criticism (p.80): I found very few spelling mistakes or typos. One that...

Books received for review.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2006... Bardon, G & Bardon, J 2005, Papunya--a place made after the story: the beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement, Melbourne University Press, 496pp, ISBN 052285110X Bassani, Paddy & Lakefield, Albert with Tom Popp 2006, Lamalama...

Research program.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2006... Visiting Research Fellow--Intellectual Property, Dr Jane Anderson, has finished her current tenure with AIATSIS. Successful launches of the AIATSIS reports on cultural institutions and IP and community protocols were held in the Mabo Room on 16...

Research seminars.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2006... 2006 second semester seminar series: 'Aboriginal Art and Identity' A significant number of AIATSIS Research grantees, staff and visitors are working on projects which explore different aspects of Indigenous art production and how this...

Collection report--library.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2006... Barry Cundy writes: In June 2006 the Library purchased a copy of Franqois Peron and Louis Freycinet's Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes... sur les corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la Goelette le Casuarina, pendant les...

Collection report--audiovisual archive.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2006... David Jeffery writes: Audiovisual Archive Collections Management staff heralded the safe arrival of the John David McCaffrey Photographic Collection from the United States, following interminable delays due to US customs procedures. ...

News from Aboriginal Studies Press.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)
September 22, 2006... Accolades and inspiration for authors * Quentin Beresford's Rob Riley: ah Aboriginal leader's quest for justice, won the HREOC Award for Arts Non-Fiction. * Aboriginal Studies Press publishing style guide for authors and editors is now...