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Pastoralism, Local Knowledge And Australian Aboriginal Development In Northern Queensland, Benjamin R. Smith Jan 2003

Pastoralism, Local Knowledge And Australian Aboriginal Development In Northern Queensland, Benjamin R. Smith

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Over the past three years, Indigenous policy in Australia has taken an interventionist turn. The work of Noel Pearson (see Pearson 2000), a prominent Indigenous intellectual from Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, has provided much of the impetus for this push. As a result, the chronic social problems of the Peninsula's Aboriginal communities have become a focus of state and federal government action, driven by the recommendations of the 2001 Cape York Justice Study (Fitzgerald 2001), commissioned by the Queensland government and developed in partnership with regional Aboriginal organisations. Pearson, along with other commentators, politicians and bureaucrats, has asserted …


Seven Aboriginal Marriage Systems And Their Correlates, Ian Keen Jan 2002

Seven Aboriginal Marriage Systems And Their Correlates, Ian Keen

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

This paper outlines patterns of kin classi® cation and marriage in seven regions of Australia. It considers the implications of differences in those patterns for such features of economy and society as levels of polygyny, the structure and dynamics of country groups, the form of exchange networks and, very brie ̄ y, cosmologies and the roles of religious leaders. The analysis demonstrates certain associations between modes of kin classi® cation and organisational forms such as moieties. Finally, the paper draws conclusions about the environmental and institutional conditions for differences in `levels’ of polygynous marriage, as well as their political and …


Institutional Representations Of Aboriginal People, Chris Paci Jan 2002

Institutional Representations Of Aboriginal People, Chris Paci

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


Visiting Aboriginal Australia, Stephen Muecke Jan 1999

Visiting Aboriginal Australia, Stephen Muecke

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


A History Of Christian Island And The Beausoleil Band, Janet Trimble Jan 1990

A History Of Christian Island And The Beausoleil Band, Janet Trimble

History Publications

A research report about the history and culture of the Beausoleil Band and Christian Island. In collaboration with the Museum of Indian Archaeology (now Museum of Ontario Archaeology) in a project funded by the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture. This a project of the MA Public History program.