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Dark Emu
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.
Trapped by History
The Australian nation has reached an impasse in Indigenous policy and practice and fresh strategies and perspectives are required. Trapped by History highlights a fundamental issue that the Australian nation must confront to develop a genuine relationship with Indigenous Australians. The existing relationship between Indigenous people and the Australian state was constructed on the myth of an empty land – terra nullius. Interactions with Indigenous people have been constrained by eighteenth-century assumptions and beliefs that Indigenous people did not have organised societies, had neither land ownership nor a recognisable form of sovereignty, and that they were ‘savage’ but could be â...
Report Of The Central Board Appointed To Watch Over The Interests Of The Aborigines In The Colony Of Victoria
The Report of the Central Board Appointed to Watch Over the Interests of the Aborigines in the Colony of Victoria is a historical document that provides insight into the treatment of indigenous Australians in the nineteenth century. The report was compiled by a government-appointed board that was charged with overseeing the welfare of Aboriginal people in the colony of Victoria. The volume includes detailed accounts of living conditions, health, and education, as well as recommendations for policy reform. The report is a landmark document in the history of Australian colonialism and continues to be of relevance to contemporary debates about Indigenous rights. This work has been selected by s...
What Now
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents. There is also extensive treatment of contemporary issues relating to alcohol consumption, violence and the impact of systemic ill health. This richly detailed portrayal provides a nuanced account of everyday endurance and social intensity on Mornington Island.
Loving Protection?
Investigation of campaigns run by white female activists in the 1920s and 1930s to bring about reforms in the treatment of Aboriginal Australians. Reveals the little-known involvement of middle-class women's organisations such as the Australian Federation of Women Voters and Western Australian Women's Service Guilds. Highlights central achievements such as the 1934 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Status and Conditions in Western Australia. Includes illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. Author is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at Australian National University, where she also lectures in women's studies.
Blood on the Wattle
Covers the treatment of the Australian aboriginal people since the begining of the European settlement. Covers massacres from Wiradjuri, 1824; Darling River, 1835-1865; Major Nun's campaign, 1838; Myall Creek, 1838; Coastal Paradise, 1830s and 1840s; Gippsland, 1840-1851, Kilcoy; by Native Police; Yeeman people, 1857; Cullin-La-Ringo, 1861; Pigeon Creek, 1862; Forest River, 1926; Cioniston, 1928; The stolen generation.
Indigenous Tourism
In a world characterized by an encroaching homogeneity induced by the growth of multi-national corporations and globalization, the causes of difference accrue new levels of importance. This is as true of tourism as in many other spheres of life - and one cause of differentiation for tourism promotion is the culture of Indigenous Peoples. This offers opportunities for cultural renaissance, income generation and enhanced political empowerment, but equally there are possible costs of creating commodities out of aspects of life that previously possessed spiritual meaning. This book examines these issues from many different perspectives; from those of product design and enhancement; of the aspira...
Aboriginal Australians
The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in Richard Broome's typical lucid and imaginative style. This is an important work of great scholarship, passion and imagination.' - Professor Lynette Russell, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying over two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he shows how white settlers steadily suppla...
Going It Alone
This collection of essays in honour of leading anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt has as its central theme Aboriginal autonomy, and includes biographical information about the Berndts and a select bibliography of their work.
Taking Liberty
At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens. It also shows how shifting wider imperial and colonial politics influenced the treatment of indigenous Australians, and how indigenous people began to engage in their own ways with these new political institutions. It is, essentially, a bringing together of two histories that have hitherto been told separately: one concerns the arrival of early democracy in the Australian colonies, as white settlers moved from the shame and restrictions of the penal era to a new and freer society with their own institutions of government; the other is the tragedy of indigenous dispossession and displacement, with its frontier violence, poverty, disease and enforced regimes of mission life.
