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Food Culture In Colonial Asia: A Taste Of Empire, Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogues are used to investigate the culinary practices in the colonial household, as well as in clubs, hill stations, hotels and restaurants. Challenging accepted ideas about colonial cuisine, the book argues that a distinctive cuisine emerged as a result of negotiation and collaboration between the expatriate British and local people, and included dishes such as curries, mulligatawny, kedgeree, country …

The Slap: Whose Side Are You On?, Leigh Dale

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Talking to people about The Slap reveals a range of responses, but one opinion is shared: author Christos Tsiolkas has “nailed it” in terms of family tensions. If people have struggled to keep watching until the final episode tonight, it’s because the arguing and the dishonesty are too close to home, rather than being implausible.

Review Of "Murdering Stepmothers - The Execution Of Martha Rendell" By Anna Haebich, Catherine Cole

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Stepmothers have received a bad press over the centuries. They are the cruel replacement mothers of fairytales, women who may not have children themselves and whose relationship with their new offspring is hostile or neglectful. Stepmothers usurp another woman’s role, generally that of the idealised, biological mother who has died tragically and can never be replaced in her children’s hearts. This antithetical role plays out in folk narratives such as Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella, which offer murderous stepmothers and absent fathers who are blind or indifferent to their children’s peril.

Euis Nurlaelawati, Modernization, Tradition And Identity: The Kompilasi Hukum Islam And Legal Practice In The Indonesian Religious Courts, Nadirsyah Hosen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Book review:

Euis Nurlaelawati, Modernization, Tradition and Identity:·the Kompilasi Hukum Islam and Legal Practice in the Indonesian Religious Courts, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterd,am, 2010, 304 pp.

Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples And Settlers In 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities [Book Review], Frances Steel

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

In Australia, classical notions of the frontier and its associated histories of invasion, displacement and violence would tend to point us towards the outback or the bush rather than the urban centres where most of us live today. Penelope Edmonds thoroughly unsettles this notion of a distant frontier by moving it back to the edges of the continent, to the port towns where Europeans first landed and where most of them remained. The frontier was not simply 'out there', synonymous with the unruly boundaries of an expanding pastoral economy, but very close to home. This reorientation recognises that our cities …

Identifying Links Between Ecosystem Services And Aboriginal Well-Being And Livelihoods In North Australia: Applying The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Framework, K K. Sangha, J.R.A Butler, Aurelie Delisle, Owen Stanley

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The livelihoods and well-being of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities in remote and rural northern Australia are dependent upon the ecosystem services provided by tropical ecosystems. The well-being of all Australian citizens is measured by the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) using socio-economic indicators. In this study we investigated the importance of non-market benefits derived from ecosystem services for Aboriginal well-being. Through a case study with the Mullunburra-Yidinji people in the Wet Tropics, Queensland, we applied the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) framework to identify the links between ecosystem services and the MA’s six constituents of human well-being. The study demonstrated that …

Evaluations Of Im/Politeness Of An Intercultural Apology, Wei-Lin Melody Chang, Michael Haugh

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This study examines variation in evaluations of im/politeness of a recording of a naturally occurring intercultural apology, focusing in particular on potential cultural differences in these evaluations across speakers of (Australian) English and (Mandarin) Chinese. We first closely analyse the apology itself as a form of social action, and suggest in the course of this analysis that evaluations of im/politeness are closely tied to converging and diverging interpretations of actions and meanings that are interactionally achieved in situated discourse. The results of a survey of evaluations of the apology and follow-up interviews with Australian and Taiwanese informants are then discussed. …