Download or read book Cultural Traditions in Australia written by Molly Aloian and published by Cultural Traditions in My Worl. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's culture is an interesting mix of ancient traditions passed down by the native peoples, as well as the traditions and culture of England, where most of its immigrant population came from. This interesting book describes how British influence and the traditions, beliefs, and rituals of indigenous peoples have developed into many of the lively and colorful festivals celebrated today. Young readers will also learn how the Australian people celebrate family occasions. Teacher's guide available.
Download or read book Australian Cultural Elites written by John Docker and published by Angus & Robertson Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aboriginal Art of Australia written by Carol Finley and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the art of the Australian Aborigines including rock painting and engraving as well as sand and bark painting; also discusses the symbolism found in these works.
Download or read book Inside Australian Culture written by Baden Offord and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values” offers a critical intervention in the continuing effects of colonization in Australia and the structures it brought, which still inform and dominate its public culture. Through a careful analysis of three disparate but significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate the way the British Enlightenment continues to dominate contemporary Australian thinking and values. Employing the lens of Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy, the authors argue for an Australian public culture that is profoundly conscious of its assumptions, history and limitations.
Download or read book From Many Places written by Migration Museum and published by Wakefield Press Pty, Limited (AUS). This book was released on 1995 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This record of the experience of immigration and settlement in South Australia provides information about the geographic origins, history, cultural traditions and community activities of 97 ethnic groups in South Australia. It is based on the database of South Australian Immigration and Settlement History located in South Australia's Migration Museum, and includes relevant statistics and a bibliography for each group.
Download or read book Culture in Australia written by Melanie Guile and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Australian social customs, spiritual beliefs and cultural traditions.
Download or read book Culture and Customs of Australia written by Laurie Clancy and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General introduction to the culture and customs of Australia society. Covers the land, people, and history; thought and religion; marriage, gender, and children; holidays and leisure activities; cuisine and fashion; literature; the media and cinema; the performing arts; painting; and architecture.
Download or read book Narrative as Social Practice written by Danièle M. Klapproth and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly original comparative study of the oral storytelling traditions of two widely divergent cultures, Anglo-Western culture and Central Australian Aboriginal culture. Concerned with both theoretical and empirical issues, this book offers
Download or read book The Blending of Australian Cultural Traditions in the Works of Thomas Keneally written by Kelley Frierson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing Contexts Shifting Meanings written by Elfriede Hermann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis. The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of tradition. Following a critique of how tradition has been viewed in terms of dichotomies like authenticity vs. inauthenticity, contributors stake out a novel perspective in which tradition figures as context-bound articulation. This makes it possible to view cultural traditions as resulting from interactions between people—their ideas, actions, and objects—and the ambient contexts. Such interactions are analyzed from the past down to the Oceanian present—with indigenous agency being highlighted. The work focuses first on early encounters, initially between Pacific Islanders themselves and later with the European navigators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to clarify how meaningful actions and contexts interrelated in the past. The present-day memories of Pacific Islanders are examined to ask how such memories represent encounters that occurred long ago and how they influenced the social, political, economic, and religious changes that ensued. Next, contributors address ongoing social and structural interactions that social actors enlist to shape their traditions within the context of globalization and then the repercussions that these intersections and intercultural exchanges of discourses and practices are having on active identity formation as practiced by Pacific Islanders. Finally, two authorities on Oceania—who themselves move in the intersecting space between anthropology and history—discuss the essays and add their own valuable reflections. With its wealth of illuminating analyses and illustrations, Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of cultural and social anthropology, history, art history, museology, Pacific studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism. Contributors: Aletta Biersack, Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon, Bronwen Douglas, David Hanlon, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Peter Hempenstall, Margaret Jolly, Miriam Kahn, Martha Kaplan, John D. Kelly, Wolfgang Kempf, Gundolf Krüger, Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris, Lamont Lindstrom, Karen Nero, Ton Otto, Anne Salmond, Serge Tcherkézoff, Paul van der Grijp, Toon van Meijl.
Download or read book What s Become of Australian Cultural Studies written by Gerard Goggin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural studies face a complicated yet rich future, proving both flexible and resilient in many countries. Against this backdrop, this book offers a fresh perspective on the state of the field of cultural studies, via an evaluation of the work of one of its key thinkers – Graeme Turner – and the traditions of Australian cultural studies which have been influential on the formation of the field. Thinking with Turner, and being informed by his practice, can help orient us in the face of new challenges and contexts across culture, media, and everyday life; teaching and pedagogy; the relation of research to the new politics of public engagement, policy, management, and universities; the internationalization of cultural studies and the reconfiguration of nationalism; the changing concepts and relations of culture; the development of important new areas in cultural studies, such as celebrity studies; and the emergence of digital media studies. This lively and provocative volume is essential reading for anyone interested in where cultural studies has come from, where it’s heading to, and what kinds of ideas – not least from Graeme Turner – will help scholars and students alike make sense of and reconfigure the discipline. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.
Download or read book Australia a Cultural History written by John Rickard and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and the Bush written by Kay Schaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-06-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Australian identity, and of Australian nationhood, are social and cultural constructs. There are several dominant themes and elements, one of the most pervasive being the Australian bushman confronting a vast and barren landscape. This is a specifically Australian conception of the battle between Man and Nature. Throughout the myths, traditions and literary creations of Australia are underlying assumptions about gender and sexual difference: assumptions about masculinity and femininity within the nationalist tradition, which affect perceptions today. In this new critique, Kay Schaffer applies the insights of feminist scholarship and of literary analysis to examine the national character. She looks at how the concept of 'the typical Australian', and the woman who stands in relation to him, has evolved across a range of cultural forms, including historical and literary texts, film and the media. She concentrates in particular on the writings of Henry Lawson and of Barbara Bayton. The circulation of ideas about these writers, their contribution to a national mythology, and the different ways their importance has been represented to modern readers, is explored and discussed. This thoughtful and provocative study will interest readers concerned with Australian literary and cultural history, as well as the broader questions of Australia's changing self-image. It will be of particular value to those interested in feminist approaches to culture and society.
Download or read book Culture Wise Australia written by David Hampshire and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new guide for visitors to Australia containing essential information to help newcomers avoid cultural and social gaffes.
Download or read book Life and Culture in Australia and the Pacific Realm written by J. M. Klein and published by 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From countries that are spread across archipelagos to micro-island nations of the Pacific Realm to the continent-country of Australia, the cultures that have emerged from this region are some of the world's most diverse. The many nations and ethnic groups that can be found in this area, also called Oceania, have each produced a unique culture. With fact-filled text and full-color photographs, this book takes readers on an adventure through the history and traditions of Australia and the Pacific Realm.
Download or read book Indigenous Australian Cultures written by Mary Colson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book gives an introduction to the fascinating and ancient cultures of Australia's Indigenous people. Discover Aboriginal approaches to arts and performance and find out about important beliefs, traditions, and customs. Find out about the role of family and community and explore how cultures are changing and developing in the 21st century. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of culture, with fact boxes providing more detailed information on life for young aborigines and biographies of key figures. Word banks, a timeline, a cultural map and suggestions for further research are also included.
Download or read book Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South eastern Australia written by Fred Cahir and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator–prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and underappreciated by non-Aboriginal colonists, especially in the south-east of Australia where Aboriginal culture was severely fractured. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia is the first book to examine historical records from early colonists who interacted with south-eastern Australian Aboriginal communities and documented their understanding of the environment, natural resources such as water and plant and animal foods, medicine and other aspects of their material world. This book provides a compelling case for the importance of understanding Indigenous knowledge, to inform discussions around climate change, biodiversity, resource management, health and education. It will be a valuable reference for natural resource management agencies, academics in Indigenous studies and anyone interested in Aboriginal culture and knowledge.
