Download or read book Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land written by Donald Thomson and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have lived and hunted with these people, accompanied them on their nomadic wanderings and learned their customs and their languages with the result that I understood and believed in them and resented the injustices under which they had suffered for so long at the hands of the white man and other invaders of their territory. Donald Thomson.
Download or read book By the camp fires with Dr Donald Thomson 1 written by Donald Fergusson Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of Caledon Bay Massacre and encounters with natives.
Download or read book The Donald Thomson Arnhem Land Collection written by Nicolas Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of work carried out on the Donald Thomson Arnhem Land Collection, includes description of the collection, a record of the work carried out and an outline of the planned publication.
Download or read book Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land written by Donald Fergusson Thomson and published by South Yarra, Vic. : C. O"Neil. This book was released on 1983 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative based on reports, private correspondence and diaries, 1935-42; observations on material culture, ceremonies and subsistence including goose-egg hunting, fish traps, use of fire; relationships between Aborigines and administration, missions, Japanese and inter-tribal hostilities, Blue Mud Bay, Caledon Bay and Milingimbi areas; Special Reconnaissance Unit and name list of members of the Unit; biographies, particularly Kapiu, Raiwalla, Wongo.
Download or read book A Cautious Silence written by Geoffrey G. Gray and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology which examines the forces that helped shaped its formation. In his new work, Geoffrey Gray reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology in Australia as an academic discipline. He argues that to do so, anthropologists had to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of Indigenous life. Thus they were able, and called on, to assist government in the control, development and advancement of Indigenous peoples. Gray aims to help us understand the present organisational structures, and assist in the formulation of anthropology's future role in Australia; to provide a wider political and social context for Australian social anthropology, and to consider the importance of anthropology as a past definer of Indigenous people. Gray's work complements and adds to earlier publications: Wolfe's Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology, McGregor's Imagined Destinies and Anderson's Cultivating Whiteness.
Download or read book Blackfellas Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race written by Gillian Cowlishaw and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2004-01-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1997, in a small town in rural Australia, a fight broke out among local Aborigines that turned into a full-blown riot when police intervened in force. In Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw uses this vivid incident as a means of launching a larger discussion about race, identity, and racialized violence. Brings indigenous Australians into the contemporary global race discourse in a lively, highly readable ethnography. Explores the local and national meanings of a race riot in Australia and the entrenched racial binary evident in everyday relationships. Raises questions about history, memory, citizenship, respect, and abjection as means of considering the politics, social science, and psychology of race rivalry and indigenous marginality. Written by a prominent scholar with clarity, verve, and accessibility both for beginners and those well-versed in contemporary debates.
Download or read book Ancestral Connections written by Howard Morphy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yolngu art as a communication system encoding meaning as form; relation of art to the systems of clan organisation and restricted (secret) knowledge; contact history and social contexts of art production; iconography of clan paintings; response to the art market; social organisation rights to land and law; marriage and kinship; rights to paintings; knowledge system - structure, inclusiveness, power, secrecy; role of paintings in ceremonies - burial rituals; range of meanings associated with paintings - examples used in ceremonies associated with the Wawilak Sisters and ancestral shark images; graphic components of painting - figurative and geometric, clan designs; chronological change - the Donald Thomson Collection, past and contemporary categories of painting, commercial art; iconographic analysis of Manggalili clan paintings; relation of events in painting to Yolngu cosmology - creative powers , life and death, male and female dualities.
Download or read book Ancestral Power and the Aesthetic written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: annotation pending.
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Download or read book Thomson of Arnhem Land written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933, a state of panic erupted in Darwin after five Japanese fishermen and three white men were killed by Aboriginal clansmen on the east coast of Arnhem Land. Donald Thomson, a young anthropologist working in the field, was appalled by calls for a punitive expedition. Thomson suspected the Aboriginal men were resisting invasions of their land and had acted in self defence. At the same time, he was aware that the official policy of "protection" of Aborigines had failed. He volunteered to go to Arnhem Land to try to prevent the race war that people feared. He also proposed to make a scientific study of Yolngu culture as the basis for new policies that would finally bring justice to Aboriginal people. After a long journey through harsh terrain, Thomson met Wonggu, a Yolngu elder, clan leader and father of three of the men jailed for killing the Japanese. Wonggu gave Thomson a message stick to take back to the government agreeing to keep the peace in his country. In turn, Thomson successfully negotiated the release of Wonggu's sons. For the next two years, Thomson lived with the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land, learning their languages and documenting their culture. Thomson was accompanied on his journeys by Raiwalla, a Mildjingi man who remained a loyal friend and companion for many years. Thomson delivered his report to the Federal government in 1937. He focused on the importance of Aboriginal relationships to the land, their complex social, cultural and economic structures. He also argued for specific policies to regulate the impact of white culture and ensure the survival of a unique yet fragile civilization. The assimilationist lobby, led by Sydney University anthropologist Professor AP Elkin, outmanoeuvred Thomson by gaining the ear of key government ministers. The report was ignored. With the outbreak of World War Two, Thomson joined again with Wonggu and his sons. Ironically, this time it was to form a special Aboriginal Reconnaissance Unit to protect Australia's north coast against invasion from the Japanese. After the war, Thomson began to lobby the then leader of the opposition, Robert Menzies. Although Menzies expressed support, he changed tack after winning the Federal election in 1949 and completely embraced the policy of assimilation. Thomson was devastated; he felt that the Aboriginal people had been sacrificed on the altar of political pragmatism. Although Thomson became more and more isolated from the anthropological establishment, he co ...
Download or read book The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections written by Nicolas Peterson and published by Academic Monographs. This book was released on 2008 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of original essays brings together, for the first time, histories of the making and of the makers of most of the major Indigenous Australian museum collections. These collections are a principal source of information on how Aboriginal people lived in the past. Knowing the context in which any collection was created-the intellectual frameworks within which the collectors were working, their collecting practices, what they failed to collect, and what Aboriginal people withheld-is vital to understanding how any collection relates to the Aboriginal society from which it was derived. Once made, collections have had mixed fates: some have become the jewel of a museum's holdings, while others have been divided and dispersed across the world, or retained but neglected. The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.
Download or read book Macassan History and Heritage written by Marshall Clark and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents inter-disciplinary perspectives on the maritime journeys of the Macassan trepangers who sailed in fleets of wooden sailing vessels known as praus from the port city of Makassar in southern Sulawesi to the northern Australian coastline. These voyages date back to at least the 1700s and there is new evidence to suggest that the Macassan praus were visiting northern Australia even earlier. This book examines the Macassan journeys to and from Australia, their encounters with Indigenous communities in the north, as well as the ongoing social and cultural impact of these connections, both in Indonesia and Australia.
Download or read book A Country in Mind written by Saskia Beudel and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chunk of land bordering Western Australia, South Australia, and Queensland is known as Namatjira. For most of us it is remote; geographically and metaphorically it is the heart of Australia. After a period of loss and much change, Saskia Beudel was inspired to begin long distance walking. Within 18 months, she had walked Australia's Snowy Mountains, twice along the South Coast of Tasmania, the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs, the Arnhem Land plateau in Kakadu, the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, and in Ladakh in the Himalayas. Throughout the course of her journeys, she experienced passages of reverie, of forgetfulness, of absorption in her surroundings, of an immense but simple pleasure, and of rhythm. The book that emerged contrasts her internal landscape with the external landscape, considering her relationships with her family in the context of environmental and anthropological histories. It champions the history of Australia's Namatjira country and conveys social and environmental issues. A Country in Mind is a narrative memoir of one woman's reflections on home, family, and belonging, while traversing remote and ancient landscapes. *** "The Australian Outback is depicted with such gorgeous language in Beudel's book that it almost feels as though you're seeing it with your own eyes. There is, however, more to this book than just description. The history and spirituality of the region is the glue that binds this alluring memoir together and turns it into a journey through Australia unlike any other." - World Literature Today, Jan/Feb 2015Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â?
Download or read book Murr iny written by Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit by shotguns, burnt by dry season fires, rusted by monsoonal rain, discarded signs litter Territory roadsides. The power of the rules and warnings they once shouted have faded like their glossy reflective paint. A group of seven Yol?u artists from Yirrkala have come to rescue, recycle and rework these battered warriors in new ways which have never been seen before. Murr?iny is the Yol?u word for steel. It is also the name by which this nation was known by its neighbours and the first Europeans who encountered them. This name references the shovel nosed spears made here since pre-Cook times. Old signs are new again. A partnership between Buku-Larr?gay Mulka Centre, Salon Art Projects and the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art.
Download or read book Donald Thomson written by Bruce Rigsby and published by Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. This book was released on 2005 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Thomson's contributions in advocacy of Aboriginal rights, his contributions to ornithology, ecology and for his journalism earned him a spot in the public eye in the 1930's and 40's. This volume is a first assessment of Thomson's life and work.
Download or read book Continuity and change in Eastern Arnhem Land written by Museum of Victoria. Education Service and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancestral Powers and the Aesthetic written by Lindy Allen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
