Australian Aboriginal Studies articles from September 2007

Australian Aboriginal Studies archives from September 2007

Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song.(INTRODUCTION)
September 22, 2007... In the period from 1984 to the present, numerous collections of essays dedicated entirely or partly to Aboriginal song and dance have appeared. (1) Each of these represented a response to particular stimuli. Three publications, Songs of...

Iwaidja Jurtbirrk songs: bringing language and music together.
September 22, 2007... Abstract: Song brings language and music together. Great singers are at once musicians and wordsmiths, who toss rhythm, melody and word against one another in complex cross-play. In this paper we outline some initial findings that are emerging...

Morrdjdjanjno ngan-marnbom story nakka, 'songs that turn me into a story teller': The morrdjdjanjno of western Arnhem Land.
September 22, 2007... Abstract: Morrdjdjanjno is the name of a song genre from the Arnhem Land plateau in the Top End of the Northern Territory and this paper is a first description of this previously undocumented song tradition. Morrdjdjanjno are songs owned...

Sung and spoken: an analysis of two different versions of a Kun-barlang love song.
September 22, 2007... Abstract: In examining a sung version and a spoken version of a Kun-barlang love song text recorded by Alice Moyle in 1962, I outline the context and overall structure of the song, then provide a detailed comparative analysis of the two...

Simplifying musical practice in order to enhance local identity: the case of rhythmic modes in the Walakandha wangga (Wadeye, Northern Territory).
September 22, 2007... Abstract: Around 1982, senior performers of the Walakandha wangga, a repertory of song and dance from the northern Australian community of Wadeye (Port Keats), made a conscious decision to simplify their complex musical and dance practice in...

"Too long, that wangga': analysing wangga texts over time.
September 22, 2007... Abstract: For the past forty or so years, Daly region song-men have joined with musicologists and linguists to document their wangga songs. This work has revealed a corpus of more than one hundred wangga songs composed in five language...

Flesh with country: juxtaposition and minimal contrast in the construction and melodic treatment of jadmi song texts.
September 22, 2007... Abstract: For some time researchers of Centralian-style songs have found that compositional and performance practices that guide the construction and musical treatment of song texts have a broader social function. Most recently, Barwick has...

The poetics of central Australian song.
September 22, 2007... Abstract: An often cited feature of traditional songs from Central Australia (CA songs) is the obfuscation of meaning. This arises partly from the difficulties of translation and partly from the difficulties in identifying words in song. The...

Budutthun ratja wiyinymirri: formal flexibility in the Yolnu manikay tradition and the challenge of recording a complete repertoire (1).
September 22, 2007... Abstract: Among the Yolnu (people) of north-eastern Arnhem Land, manikay (song) series serve as records of sacred relationships between humans, country and ancestors. Their formal structures constitute the over-arching order of all ceremonial...

Australian Aboriginal song language: so many questions, so little to work with.
September 22, 2007... Recent years have seen a significant upturn in research activity into Indigenous song language. We now have teams of researchers including anthropologists, linguists and musicologists engaged in longer-term song language projects. This paper...

Linking ecosystem services to well-being: a case study of Aboriginal communities in northern Australia.(RESEARCH REPORT)
September 22, 2007... This study investigated the role of ecosystem services in the well-being of Aboriginal Australians, in the tropical savanna region of northern Australia. There is significant literature available to suggest that Aboriginal communities depend...

A Kimberley concept of socially useful work.(COMMENT)
September 22, 2007... A challenge facing the nation is to imagine new social, cultural and economic possibilities that is inclusive of Indigenous Australians. In the Kimberley, mananambarra (plural: senior Indigenous men and women) were committed to a belief in the...

Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land.(Sound recording review)
September 22, 2007... Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land Kevin Djimarr (composer, songman and man-beringinj (clapsticks)), James lyuna (vocals), Jimmy Djarrbbarali (vocals), Owen Yalandja (mako (didjeridu)), Murray Garde and Stephen Wild (field...

Disturbances and Dislocations: Understanding teaching and learning experiences in Indigenous Australian women's music and dance.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Disturbances and Dislocations: Understanding teaching and learning experiences in Indigenous Australian women's music and dance Elizabeth Mackinlay 2007 Peter Lang, Bern (European University Studies Series 11 Education, Vol 932),...

Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt (editors) 2005 Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, vii+171 pp, ISBN 987 0 85575 493 8 There are...

Melodies of Mourning: Music and emotion in northern Australia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Melodies of Mourning: Music and emotion in northern Australia Fiona Magowan 2007 University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, xvii+222pp, ISBN 978 1 92069 499 9 Like many other Aboriginal song traditions, the song tradition that...

Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The wangga of north Australia.
September 22, 2007... Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The wangga of north Australia Allan Marett 2005 Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut (music/culture series), xxiii+292pp bound, with CD audio recording, ISBN 0 8195 6617 9 Since 1986,...

Jurtbirrk Love Songs from North Western Arnhem Land.(Sound recording review)
September 22, 2007... Jurtbirrk Love Songs from North Western Arnhem Land David Minyimak and others (composers/ performers), Linda Barwick, Bruce Birch, Joy Williams, Sabine Hoeng (field recording/ editing/transcriptions/notes) 2005 Batchelor Press, CD+48pp...

Awelye Akwelye: Kaytetye women's traditional songs from Arnerre, Central Australia.(Sound recording review)
September 22, 2007... Awelye Akwelye: Kaytetye women's traditional songs from Arnerre, Central Australia Alison Ngamperle Ross and Myfany Turpin 2003 Papulu Apparr-Kari Language and Culture Centre, Tennant Creek (issued both as cassette and CD, with...

Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander "homelands' in transition.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander "homelands' in transition Helen Hughes, 2007 The Centre for Independent Studies Limited, St Leonards, xv + 237pp, ISBN 978 1 864321 35 7 Helen Hughes is angry about the...

Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, normalise, exit Aboriginal Australia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, normalise, exit Aboriginal Australia Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson (eds) 2007 Arena Publications Association, North Carlton 3054, ix+341 pp, ISBN 978 0 9804158 0 3 The book is a collection of...

Contesting Assimilation.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Contesting Assimilation Tim Rowse (ed.) 2005 API Network, Perth, x+352 pp, ISBN 1 920845 15 1 This volume arises from a conference, 'Assimilation--Then and Now', held at the University of Sydney in December 2000. At this...

Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the disciplines.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the disciplines Martin Nakata 2007 Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, viii+247pp, ISBN 978 0 85575 548 5 Martin Nakata has chosen a title that is absolutely right for this book, Disciplining the...

Trustees on Trial: Recovering the stolen wages.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Trustees on Trial: Recovering the stolen wages Rosalind Kidd 2006 Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, xii +212pp, ISBN 978 0 85575 546 1 This book has one story to tell, but it is an important story about Aboriginal people in the...

Shimmering Screens: Making media in an Aboriginal community.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Shimmering Screens: Making media in an Aboriginal community Jennifer Deger 2006 University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (Visible Evidence 19), xxxv+267pp, ISBN 0 81664 921 9 Shimmering Screens is a study of the impact of Western...

Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central desert art as experience.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central desert art as experience Jennifer Biddle 2007 University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 128pp, ISBN 978 0 295987 121 5 Most writers are primarily concerned with the content, the 'what' of their...

The First Boat People.
September 22, 2007... The First Boat People Steve Webb 2006 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology Series 47), xvii+318pp, ISBN 978 0 521 85656 0 The first half of this book addresses the initial...

Lamalama Country: Our country, our culture-way.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Lamalama Country: Our country, our culture-way Paddy Bassani and Albert Lakefield with Tom Popp 2006 Edited by Bruce Rigsby and Noelene Cole Akito in association with Arts Queensland, Brisbane, x+70pp, ISBN 0 646 45686 5 ...

Social Work with Indigenous Communities.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Social Work with Indigenous Communities Linda Briskman 2007 The Federation Press, Annandale, ix+277, ISBN 978 1 86287 643 9 Of all the realms of social work practice, it can be argued that none have been or remain more complex and...

Benelong's Haven: Recovery from alcohol and drug abuse within an Aboriginal Australian residential treatment centre.
September 22, 2007... Benelong's Haven: Recovery from alcohol and drug abuse within an Aboriginal Australian residential treatment centre Richard Chenhall 2007 Melbourne University Press, Carlton, x+321 pp, ISBN 0 522 85348 X Benelong's Haven is an...

Aboriginal Health Workers: Primary health care at the margins.
September 22, 2007... Aboriginal Health Workers: Primary health care at the margins Bill Genat with Sharon Bushby, May McGuire, Eileen Taylor, Yvette Walley and Thelma Weston 2006 University of Western Australia Press, Claremont 6010, vii +226pp, ISBN 1...

Songlines and Stone Axes: Transport, trade and travel in Australia.
September 22, 2007... Songlines and Stone Axes: Transport, trade and travel in Australia John Nicholson 2007 Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 32pp, ISBN 978 117 41175 002 7 Songlines and Stone Axes is the first book of a new series on Transport, Trade and...

A Story to Tell: Laurel Nannup 2006.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Story to Tell Laurel Nannup 2006 University of Western Australia Press for the Charles and Joy Staples Foundation, Crawley 6009, x+69pp, ISBN 1 9 20694 6 A Story to Tell stands out among the...

Corroboree.(Children's review)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Corroboree Angus Wallum and Suzanne Kelly, paintings by Norma McDonald 2004 University of Western Australian Press (Cygnet Books), Crawley 6009, ii+30pp, ISBN 1 920694 14 Winner of the inaugural Marrwarnging Award for Australian...

The 1967 Referendum: Race, power and the Australian Constitution.(Book Notes)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The 1967 Referendum: Race, power and the Australian Constitution Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus 2007 Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, viii+188pp, ISBN 978 0 85575 555 3 This is timely republication by Aboriginal Studies Press of...

Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish quest for the mysterious Great South Land.(Book Notes)
September 22, 2007... Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish quest for the mysterious Great South Land Miriam Estensen2006 Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, xiii+274pp, ISBN 978 1 74175 054 6 Miriam Estensen is an accomplished populariser of historical...

Books received for review.
September 22, 2007... Delahunty, Brendan and Judy Putt, 2006 Good Practice Framework--Policing illicit drugs in rural and remote communities (title page: Good Practice Framework. Policing illicit drugs in rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

Kerry Arabena.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)
September 22, 2007... Ms Kerry Arabena, Visiting Research Fellow Social Health, is a member of the health research team at AIATSIS and took part in various of its of its projects of into the social determinants of health and wellbeing. She undertook the Indigenous...

Graham Henderson.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)
September 22, 2007... Dr Graham Henderson, Visiting Research Fellow Social Health, is a member of the AIATSIS health research team, which is also part of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH). He and Ms Arabena were in-volved with several...

Lester Hiatt.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)
September 22, 2007... Dr Lester Hiatt, Honorary Visiting Fellow, prepared a major paper, 'The moral lexicon of the Warlpiri people of central Australia', which was published in Australian Aboriginal Studies 2007/1.

Steve Kinnane.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Mr Steve Kinnane, Visiting Research Fellow, Social Organisation and Expressive Culture, continued his collaborative work on the Kimberley Regional Sustainability Project with the Kimberley Land Council, initially concentrating on the...

Patrick McConvell.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)
September 22, 2007... Dr Patrick McConvell, Visiting Research Fellow, Language and Society, continued his research on endangered Indigenous languages and other projects. He began work with Dr Eva Schultze-Berndt in late 2006 on Documentation of Endangered Languages...

Kazuko Obata.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)
September 22, 2007... Dr Kazuko Obata, Language Officer, continued to work on the AUSTLANG (web-based Australian Indigenous languages database) project. The initial compilation of data has been completed and she is now checking and editing the data. The Institute...

Patrick Sullivan.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Visiting Research Fellow Indigenous Regional Organisation, Governance and Public Policy, Dr Patrick Sullivan's projects focus on Effective Service Delivery in Remote Communities, and implementation of whole-of-government policy. Dr Sullivan is...

Colin Tatz.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)
September 22, 2007... Professor Colin Tatz, Honorary Visiting Fellow, worked with colleagues to complete a major paper, Aborigines and Uranium: Monitoring the health hazards, which was published in the Research program's Discussion Paper series in December 2006. The...

Anthea-Jo Taylor.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Dr Anthea-Jo Taylor, Visiting Research Fellow Education and Cultural Transmission, continued work on an early childhood research project in metropolitan Perth, monitoring the transition of Aboriginal children from preschool to primary school....

Luke Taylor.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Dr Luke Taylor, Deputy Principal Research and Information, completed three weeks of fieldwork with Kuninjku language speaking artists in Maningrida in July 2006 to support the presentation of a keynote address entitled 'Paint as Power Among...

Peter Veth.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Dr Peter Veth, Director of Research (until May 2007) completed the Dampier Archipelago National Heritage Listing Report for the then Department of the Environment and Heritage and made a parliamentary presentation on the report. Dr Veth...

Greame Ward.(RESEARCH PROGRAM)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Dr Graeme Ward, Research Fellow Human Relationships with Landscapes through Time, completed fieldwork in the Daly River-Wadeye-Fitzmaurice River region, in collaboration with traditional owners and members of the Kanamkek-Yile Ngala Museum,...

Toni Bauman.(Native Title Research Unit)
September 22, 2007... Ms Toni Bauman was re-appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow--Native Title Research Unit (NTRU) commencing in January 2007. In April 2007, she convened the first national meeting of Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBCs), following which she...

Grace Koch.(Native Title Research Unit)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Ms Grace Koch Native Title Research and Access Officer presented a paper, due for publication in late 2007, on the use of music as evidence in native title claims to the Sydney conference of the International Association of Music Librarians. In...

Lisa Strelein.(Native Title Research Unit)
September 22, 2007... Dr Lisa Strelein Visiting Research Fellow and Director of the Native Title Research Unit (NTRU) is also currently Director of Research Programs. Dr Strelein is involved in two NTRU research projects: prescribed bodies corporate (PBCs); and...

Jessica Weir.(Native Title Research Unit)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Ms Jessica Weir was appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in January 2007. Ms Weir is involved in three NTRU research projects: prescribed bodies corporate (PBCs); native title and land and water management; and the Gunditjmara land justice...

Research seminars.(NEWS AND INFORMATION)(Calendar)
September 22, 2007... Second semester seminars 2007 focused on current research projects by AIATSIS Research Fellows and invited guests. 6 August Securing the Ground: Protection and support to welfare reform and military occupation Ms Kerry Arabena,...

To Remove and Protect: Aboriginal Lives Under Control. A new online exhibition from the AIATSIS Library.(COLLECTION REPORT--LIBRARY)
September 22, 2007... To Remove and Protect: Aboriginal Lives Under Control. A new online exhibition from the AIATSIS Library To complement the AIATSIS Library's online exhibition which features digitised copies of all the legislation relating to the removal...

Ronald Rose's collection of original negatives.(COLLECTION REPORT--AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVE)
September 22, 2007... Ronald Rose's collection of original negatives In the introduction to Living Magic: The realities underlying the psychical practices and beliefs of Australian Aborigines (Chatto and Windus, London 1957), Ronald Rose wrote that his book is...

Award won.(News from Aboriginal Studies Press)
September 22, 2007... Quentin Beresford's Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice has won the 2007 Stanner Award. This is awarded by the AIATSIS Council for a publication they consider to be a significant work of scholarship in Aboriginal and/ or Torres...

UK/Europe: new distribution arrangement.(News from Aboriginal Studies Press)
September 22, 2007... ASP has signed an agreement with a trade distributor for the UK and Europe. This will allow us to be listed on Amazon in the UK and we expect that that listing, along with other marketing efforts, will result in increased exposure of our list,...

Book launches and marketing activities.(News from Aboriginal Studies Press)
September 22, 2007... We have been busier than usual on the marketing front. In the past few months ASP has held launches in several states: Melbourne (Bruce Pascoe's Convincing Ground), Thursday Island and Canberra (Martin Nakata's Disciplining the Savages:...

E-journal.(News from Aboriginal Studies Press)
September 22, 2007... Your subscription to Australian Aboriginal Studies (AAS), now entitles you to access an electronic version of the journal, provided by Informit Pty Ltd. If you have any queries regarding this service, please contact sales@aiatsis.gov.au or...

New releases in 2007.(News from Aboriginal Studies Press)
September 22, 2007... The following titles have been released since July (2007); please see our website for full details : * Life B'long Ali Drummond: A life in the Torres Strait, Samantha Faulkner with Ali Drummond * A Cautious Silence: The politics of...

Top titles for 2008.(News from Aboriginal Studies Press)
September 22, 2007... February 2008 will see the publication in paperback of the best-selling Anna the Goanna, to be followed in later months by a biography of Doreen Kartinyeri, 'The Guts of It', Brian McCoy's book on Aboriginal men's health, and a new edition of...

Ysola Best 1940-2007.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
September 22, 2007... Ysola Best dedicated much of her life to researching and documenting her Indigenous heritage and having recognised the role that her family played in the development of the Gold Coast, southeastern Queensland. Her ancestors and traditional...

Philip DeLacey d. 2007.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
September 22, 2007... Philip DeLacey was born in New Zealand and commenced his professional life there as an optometrist. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1959 with a BSc (Optometrical Science). After his return to New Zealand he completed...

Lawrence Piyarlum Kolumboort (Karamengi) January 1939-March 2006.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
September 22, 2007... Laurence Kolumboort was an extraordinary songman, and leader of the Wadeye (Port Keats) community. He was born 1 January 1939 at Old Mission (the Port Keats Mission was established in 1935), the fifth of eight children. His mother's name was...