Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 3 of 3

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

An Aboriginal Moomba: Remaking History, Sylvia Kleinert Jan 1999

An Aboriginal Moomba: Remaking History, Sylvia Kleinert

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


Home On ‘The Block’: Rethinking Aboriginal Emplacement, Ceridwen Spark Jan 1999

Home On ‘The Block’: Rethinking Aboriginal Emplacement, Ceridwen Spark

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


Letters From Mapoon: Colonising Aboriginal Gender, Regina Ganter Jan 1999

Letters From Mapoon: Colonising Aboriginal Gender, Regina Ganter

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Much information on traditional indigenous society in Australian historiography and anthropology stems from the vast store of eyewitness accounts left by missionaries, settlers and government officials. How cautious does one need to be in using such material? After all that it reveals about the moral and legal universe of its writers, can it speak reliably about traditional society? This article traces the production of knowledge about indigenous gender relations at Cape York Peninsula through a lineage of sources from the 1890s to the 1990s and concludes that unless the assumptions embedded in the primary sources are clearly identified, the discourse …