Download or read book Maningrida written by Helen Bond-Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is not the story of a sleepy little hamlet in the wilderness of Arnhem Land. This is the story of an intriguing place and some remarkable people. Several themes run through the history including the control of land, the impact of grog, the importance of 'good people' and the value of positive partnerships between Aboriginal and Balanda. Above all there is the struggle by Aboriginal people to be the decision-makers, to determine their own future. The story of Maningrida began long before Arnhem Land emerged into national consciousness. It was once considered as the site for Australia's northern capital. Makassans, navigators, surveyors and patrol officers visited the area before government men sought to establish a settlement at Manayingkarrira in the land of the Kunibidji people. Maningrida was founded in 1957. It aimed to transition tribal Aboriginal people into mainstream Australian society. Health and education services faced special challenges. Attempts to establish industries other than Aboriginal art, all failed. Deep divisions developed in the community when Aboriginal people became part of the electoral landscape. Struggles peaked in the late 1970s when defenders of Aboriginal self-determination went head-to-head with the Commonwealth in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory"--Back cover.
Download or read book An Adjustment Movement in Arnhem Land written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""An Adjustment Movement in Arnhem Land" was published in 1962 ... An earlier and abbreviated form of the book had been recognised by the award of the Royal Anthropological Institute Wellcome Medal for 1958. But in spite of this distinguished recognition, anthropology in Australia seemed not to know what to make of it. It had no obvious predecessors, nor was it written in a genre appropriate to the anthropological issues of the day. It was short - only 103 pages - and its internal organization was decidedly odd, with descriptions of individual Aboriginal people, their roles and relationships, an elaborate attempt to decode the designs on the sacred objects which form the centre of the account, forewords and appendices, and some black and white photographic plates. Finally, the anthropologist himself is, if not at centre stage, at least a frequent and sometimes significant presence in the text. In many respects it seems more like a postmodern work, filled with fragments and reflexivity, than the formalized ethnographies which were canonical at the time. It is concerned with Aboriginal life in Northeast Arnhem Land in the encounter with "change", most particularly with concepts, beliefs and ideas arising from the penetration of mission Christianity."--Preface, p. 2.
Download or read book The Black War in Arnhem Land written by Mickey Dewar and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical account of the background and responses to the killings of Japanese and Europeans in East Arnhem Land in the 1930s; history of the creation of Arnhem Land and early contact - explorers, pastoralists and missionaries; establishment of Roper River, South Goulburn Island, Emerald River, Milingimbi and Yirrkala Missions; the slaying of five Japanese trepangers at Caledon Bay (1932) and Fagan, Traynor and McColl on Woodah Island (1933); subsequent trial (of Tuckiar) and its wider impact on the question of land rights; role of the police, government, missions , the press and anthropology.
Download or read book Balanda written by Mary Ellen Jordan and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Mary Ellen Jordan left her Melbourne city life to spend fourteen months in Maningrida, a coastal community in Arnhem Land. A place that would challenge her perceptions of race, culture, political correctness, art, language, and whiteness.
Download or read book A Bridge Over Time written by Harold Thornell and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1986 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal history as missions first agricultural adviser; illness, healing, bone pointing, vengence, humour, spirit country; coast watchers; many Yirrkala people named and discussed extensively.
Download or read book Makassar Northeast Arnhem Land written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on a student trip to Ujung Pandang (Makassar), South Sulawesi to trace family connections; historical background and sources; role of oral history; includes a selection of stories gathered by students in their own communities (Yirrkala, Milingimbi, Ramingining, Galiwinku, Bathurst Island); genealogical information generated by Aboriginal and Makassan informants; language contact and Macassan loan words.
Download or read book Arnhem Land written by Elsie Bohning and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An adjustment movement in Arnhem Land Northern Territory of Australia written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by . This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition written by Martin Thomas and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1948 a collection of scientists, anthropologists and photographers journeyed to northern Australia for a seven-month tour of research and discovery - now regarded as 'the last of the big expeditions'. The American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land was front-page news at the time, but 60 years later it is virtually unknown. This lapse into obscurity was due partly to the fraught politics of Australian anthropology and animus towards its leader, the Adelaide-based writer-photographer Charles Mountford. Promoted as a 'friendly mission that would foster good relations between Australia and its most powerful wartime ally, the Expedition was sponsored by National Geographic, the Smithsonian Institution and the Australian Government. An unlikely cocktail of science, diplomacy and popular geography, the Arnhem Land Expedition put the Aboriginal cultures of the vast Arnhem Land reserve on an international stage." -- Publisher's website.
Download or read book Songspirals written by Gay'wu Group of Women and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint winner of the 2020 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Award for Non-Fiction. 'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the land and it belongs to us. We sing to the land, sing about the land. We are that land. It sings to us.' Aboriginal Australian cultures are the oldest living cultures on earth and at the heart of Aboriginal cultures is song. These ancient narratives of landscape have often been described as a means of navigating across vast distances without a map, but they are much, much more than this. Songspirals are sung by Aboriginal people to awaken Country, to make and remake the life-giving connections between people and place. Songspirals are radically different ways of understanding the relationship people can have with the landscape. For Yolngu people from North East Arnhem Land, women and men play different roles in bringing songlines to life, yet the vast majority of what has been published is about men's place in songlines. Songspirals is a rare opportunity for outsiders to experience Aboriginal women's role in crying the songlines in a very authentic and direct form. 'Songspirals are Life. These are cultural words from wise women. As an Aboriginal woman this is profound to learn. As a human being Songspirals is an absolute privilege to read.' - Ali Cobby Eckermann, Yankunytjatjara poet 'To read Songspirals is to change the way you see, think and feel this country.' - Clare Wright, award-winning historian and author 'A rare and intimate window into traditional women's cultural life and their visceral connection to Country. A generous invitation for the rest of us.' - Kerry O'Brien, Walkley Award-winning journalist
Download or read book Djanggawul written by Ronald M. Berndt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Djanggawul religious cult is the focus for this study because it is more important to the Aborigines themselves than other religious cults in the north-eastern region of Arnhem land. The book includes chapters on the following: · Significance of the Djanggawul · The Djanggawul Myth and Content of the Myth · The Djanggawul Songs · The Djanggawul Song Cycle: Parts 1 The book includes an extensive glossary and index. First published in 1952.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Rock Art written by Christopher Chippindale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.
Download or read book Life in Indigenous Australian Communities Gawa written by Linda Bruce and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is part of the fascinating Life in Indigenous Australian Communities series presenting a first-hand account of life Gawa. Gawa is a homeland community on Galiwinku (Elcho Island) off the north coast of Arnhem Land in the Arafura Sea of the Northern Territory. Gawa country is cared for by a group of Yolngu, the Warramiri, and their descendants. In this book, Gawa, read about Warramiri: Country People Daily life Roles and relationships Law Language Ceremonies, totems
Download or read book The Aborigines of Arnhem Land written by Keith Cole and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces history of Macassan and European impact on Arnhem Land; effect of administrative, commercial and mission activities up to present time; traditional Aboriginal culture and society described and present problems and aspirations discussed.
Download or read book Heart of Arnhem Land written by François Giner and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, Franois Giner had his first taste of northern Australia, not realising that it would be the start of a 36-year sojourn and adventure, far from his hometown of Lodve, in southern France. As a teenager, Giner had set out to discover new horizons and people.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land Australia written by Bruno David and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually most impressive regional assemblages anywhere in the world. To better understand this multi-dimensional cultural record, The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia focuses on the nature and antiquity of the region’s rock art as revealed by archaeological surveys and excavations, and the application of novel analytical methods. This volume also presents new findings by which to rethink how Aboriginal peoples have socially engaged in and with places across western Arnhem Land, from the north to the south, from the plains to the spectacular rocky landscapes of the plateau. The dynamic nature of Arnhem Land rock art is explored and articulated in innovative ways that shed new light on the region’s deep time Aboriginal history.
Download or read book Whispering Wind written by Syd Kyle-Little and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '... a first class account by one of the great characters of the Territory. There were always decent Australians of all races and colours who formed friendships across artificial barriers and respected individuals as individuals. Let this book serve to restore some balance.' - The Honourable Austin Asche QC, Administrator (Ret'd), Northern Territory For more than a century the savagery of the indigenous tribes of Arnhem Land kept the white man at bay. Explorers passing through the rugged hinterland fired rockets at night to frighten off hostile tribesmen; there were chilling reports of cannibalistic rites.Into this country, at the end of the Second World War, came the young Syd Kyle-Little, patrol officer in the Australian Native Affairs Branch. His first assignment was to stop a tribal war.Between 1946 and 1950, on foot and by canoe, through crocodile-infested rivers, Kyle-Little made five, long patrols in the Arnhem Land reserve that stretches across the top of northern Australia. He arrived in this hostile land with the white man's law, and soon realised that often the black man's law was better.Kyle-Little's ambition was to preserve indigenous tribal and ceremonial life within the Arnhem Land. He intended his courageous actions to be incidental to the story, but they cannot be ignored, and when accounts of his thrilling adventures have been forgotten, the memory of Kyle-Little's life will stand as a stirring example of human endeavour. Whispering Wind was originally published in 1957.
