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Small Piece Of Paper -- Going Out, Flying Around The World: A Preliminary Discussion On The Reproduction Of Aboriginal Creativity On Postage Stamps, Michael James Judd Jan 1998

Small Piece Of Paper -- Going Out, Flying Around The World: A Preliminary Discussion On The Reproduction Of Aboriginal Creativity On Postage Stamps, Michael James Judd

Theses : Honours

In this thesis the use of Aboriginal designs on postage stamps is examined from an anthropological perspective. Firstly the ways in which Australia Post reached decisions to use Aboriginal designs is considered and the protocols for their use examined. The theoretical ideas of Munn on the ownership of designs, and of Morphy and Keen pertaining to the "economy of knowledge" provides an approach for considering the topic. The archival work for the writing of this thesis was conducted in a short visit to the archives of Australia Post. The research showed the practices of Australia Post with regard to using …

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Not So Nice Colored Girls: A View Of Tracey Moffatt’S Nice Coloured Girls, Caroline Vercoe Dec 1997

Not So Nice Colored Girls: A View Of Tracey Moffatt’S Nice Coloured Girls, Caroline Vercoe

Pacific Studies

Nice Coloured Girls is Tracey Moffatt’s first film. Produced in 1987, this seventeen-minute film describes a tradition that has been passed down from her grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s generation—that of “picking up Captain.” Moffatt explains “since colonisation ‘picking up Captain’ has been a way for Aboriginal women to survive off white men.” Rather than creating new and empowered Aboriginal heroines for the 1990s, Moffatt chooses to site her characters within a colonial continuum. Her tradition begins with postcolonial contact and it is clearly formed by cross-cultural experiences. This essay focuses on the narrative structure of Nice Coloured Girls and discusses the …

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Maritime Resource Exploitation In Southwest Australia Prior To 1901, Paul R. Weaver Jan 1997

Maritime Resource Exploitation In Southwest Australia Prior To 1901, Paul R. Weaver

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This ethnohistorical study identifies maritime resources of southwest Australia which were subject to human exploitation prior to 1901 and provides an overview of how, when and why this took. place by integrating historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and natural-science information. The resources included for discussion arc whales, seals, seabirds, guano, oysters and pearls, and fish. An argument is developed that the socio-spatial relationship which existed between peoples and marine• estuarine species in the region was determined by the physiography and climate. This relationship has always been imperfect, if not chaotic because of the unpredictability of the resources through long and short term …

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Taramaguti Today: Changing Roles Of Senior Tiwi Wives As Household Managers, Jane C. Goodale Dec 1996

Taramaguti Today: Changing Roles Of Senior Tiwi Wives As Household Managers, Jane C. Goodale

Pacific Studies

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Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo : An Historical Study, Marion V. Austin-Crowe Jan 1996

Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo : An Historical Study, Marion V. Austin-Crowe

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The focus of this thesis is Katharine Susannah Prichard's novel, Coonardoo ( 1929), and its capacity to provide a framework for the reconstruction of the historical situation in the North-West region of Western Australia during the period mid-1860s to late 1920s. The thesis has a dual purpose: to contextualise the novel in terms of the historical, political, ideological, and social situation; and to read the novel in ways which reveal its reconstruction of the wider historical context. My approach is a new historicist close reading of the text. Specific events or situations are scrutinised for their power to convey insights …

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Kwobba-Keip Boya: The Place Of Pretty Water And Rocks, Glenys Collard, Tim Thorne, Neville Williams, Steve Bark Jan 1995

Kwobba-Keip Boya: The Place Of Pretty Water And Rocks, Glenys Collard, Tim Thorne, Neville Williams, Steve Bark

Research outputs pre 2011

No abstract provided.

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International Rights And Australian Adaptations: Recent Developments In Criminal Investigation, Mark Findlay Jan 1995

International Rights And Australian Adaptations: Recent Developments In Criminal Investigation, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

To empower the "right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law", Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights identifies a range of "minimum guarantees" for suspects under investigation and for the accused at trial. Significant among these is that the suspect/accused is "not to be compelled to testify against himself or to confess guilt".

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Review Of: Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis, Paul Faulstich Oct 1994

Review Of: Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis, Paul Faulstich

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Rock-art studies have now come of age, and are among the most fertile explorations of expressive culture. Through an interdisciplinary approach to its study, we have expanded our knowledge into the realms of aesthetics, belief systems, and social structures. Australian rock an is particularly significant, since it is a visual expression that has been practiced by contemporary as well as prehistoric Aboriginals. Robert Layton's most recent book -his "new synthesis" of Australian rock art- is an ambitious and successful analysis of Aboriginal rock art from across the continent.

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Peter Lineham's Review Of Marjorie Newton's Southern Cross Saints: The Mormons In Australia, Peter Lineham Mar 1993

Peter Lineham's Review Of Marjorie Newton's Southern Cross Saints: The Mormons In Australia, Peter Lineham

Pacific Studies

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Convict Teachers And The Children Of Western Australia, 1850-1890, Shirley M. Leahy Jan 1993

Convict Teachers And The Children Of Western Australia, 1850-1890, Shirley M. Leahy

Theses : Honours

This dissertation aims to examine the relationship between convict schoolmasters and the children of Swan River Colony over the 40 year period from 1850 to 1890, Fearing detrimental effects on the lives of their children, the majority of colonists believed that importation of convict labourers threatened the well-being of the younger generation morally, physically, and intellectually. These fears, based on popular perception of the convict as a perpetrator of evil, were further influenced by a voluble media. Published articles and letters to the newspapers called for government protection for settlers and their families from convict depredations. Public apprehension deepened with …

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (1992): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1992

Vol. 15 No. 3 (1992): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

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Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1992

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 15, No 3 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (1992): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1992

Vol. 15 No. 3 (1992): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

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Contributors: Vol 15 No. 3, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1992

Contributors: Vol 15 No. 3, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Contributors list of Vol. 15 (1992): Pacific Studies Full Issue 3

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Revising The Revisionists: The Historiography Of Immigrant Melanesians In Australia, Clive Moore Jun 1992

Revising The Revisionists: The Historiography Of Immigrant Melanesians In Australia, Clive Moore

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Victoria K. Burbank's Review Of Gillian Cowlishaw's Black, White, Or Brindle: Race In Rural Australia, Victoria K. Burbank Mar 1991

Victoria K. Burbank's Review Of Gillian Cowlishaw's Black, White, Or Brindle: Race In Rural Australia, Victoria K. Burbank

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Robert Layton's Review Of Peter Sutton's Dreamings: The Art Of Aboriginal Australia, Robert Layton Mar 1991

Robert Layton's Review Of Peter Sutton's Dreamings: The Art Of Aboriginal Australia, Robert Layton

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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An Ethnohistorical Study Of The Swan-Canning Fishery In Western Australia, 1697-1837, Paul R. Weaver Jan 1991

An Ethnohistorical Study Of The Swan-Canning Fishery In Western Australia, 1697-1837, Paul R. Weaver

Theses : Honours

The study takes a multidisciplinary approach by examining historical and contemporary scientific literature in order to determine the degree of intercultural competition which took place between Aborigines and Europeans for the native food resources which were associated with the Swan-Canning estuarine system, which is located in the south west of Western Australia, at approximately longitude 116" E. and latitude 32" S. The 1697-1827 time frame of the study, covers all the documented pre-colonial European visits to the fishery environs and also incorporates the first decade of the British colonisation process at the Swan River, which can be said to have …

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X-Ray Rock Art Of Australia And Southeast Asia, Paul Faulstich Nov 1990

X-Ray Rock Art Of Australia And Southeast Asia, Paul Faulstich

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Throughout the world, cultures have expressed social, economic, and religious concerns through art. As the oldest surviving artistic form, rock art illustrates mankind's continuing effort to understand his place in the material and immaterial worlds. The study of rock art can lend an important insight into prehistory, as it provides the earliest illustration of beliefs, technologies, and activities.

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Shaman--Ritual--Place: Sacred Sites And Spiritual Transformation, Paul Faulstich Sep 1989

Shaman--Ritual--Place: Sacred Sites And Spiritual Transformation, Paul Faulstich

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Throughout the world, tribal societies have held in sacred esteem certain locales within the physical environment. These have been utilized for the purposes of shamanism, ritual, magic, and mythologizing.

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David Turner's Review Of Fred R. Myers's Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, And Politics Among Western Desert Aborigines, David Turner Mar 1989

David Turner's Review Of Fred R. Myers's Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, And Politics Among Western Desert Aborigines, David Turner

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Elspeth A. Young's Review Of J. C. Altman's Hunter-Gatherers Today: An Aboriginal Economy In North Australia, Elspeth A. Young Mar 1989

Elspeth A. Young's Review Of J. C. Altman's Hunter-Gatherers Today: An Aboriginal Economy In North Australia, Elspeth A. Young

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Kenneth Maddock's Review Of Ronald M. Berndt And Catherine H. Berndt's End Of An Era: Aboriginal Labour In The Northern Territory, Kenneth Maddock Mar 1989

Kenneth Maddock's Review Of Ronald M. Berndt And Catherine H. Berndt's End Of An Era: Aboriginal Labour In The Northern Territory, Kenneth Maddock

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Joseph C. Meredith's Review Of John Bach's The Australia Station: A History Of The Royal Navy In The South-West Pacific, 1821-1913, Joseph C. Meredith Sep 1988

Joseph C. Meredith's Review Of John Bach's The Australia Station: A History Of The Royal Navy In The South-West Pacific, 1821-1913, Joseph C. Meredith

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Joseph C. Meredith's Review Of John Bach's The Australia Station: A History Of The Royal Navy In The South-West Pacific, 1821-1913, Joseph C. Meredith Sep 1988

Joseph C. Meredith's Review Of John Bach's The Australia Station: A History Of The Royal Navy In The South-West Pacific, 1821-1913, Joseph C. Meredith

Pacific Studies

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"Sacred" And "Secular" In Australian Rock Art, Paul Faulstich Apr 1988

"Sacred" And "Secular" In Australian Rock Art, Paul Faulstich

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Recently I have been questioned by several scholars about the terms "sacred" and "secular" in my research on Aboriginal rock art in Australia. It seems clear that many people are uncomfortable with distinguishing between sacred and secular within a tribal context. I would like to express my viewpoint briefly, and hopefully to clear up some of the misconceptions that are held about Aboriginal concepts of spirituality.

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T. D. Webb's Review Of David Muir's Road To The Stamping Ground, T. D. Webb Sep 1987

T. D. Webb's Review Of David Muir's Road To The Stamping Ground, T. D. Webb

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Deborah Bird Rose's Review Of Marc Gumbert's Neither Justice Nor Reason: A Legal And Anthropological Analysis Of Aboriginal Land Rights, Deborah Bird Rose Sep 1987

Deborah Bird Rose's Review Of Marc Gumbert's Neither Justice Nor Reason: A Legal And Anthropological Analysis Of Aboriginal Land Rights, Deborah Bird Rose

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Patricia Polansky's Review Of Elena Viktorovna Govor's Bibliografiia Avstralii, 1710-1983 (A Bibliography Of Australia, 1710-1983), Patricia Polansky Jul 1987

Patricia Polansky's Review Of Elena Viktorovna Govor's Bibliografiia Avstralii, 1710-1983 (A Bibliography Of Australia, 1710-1983), Patricia Polansky

Pacific Studies

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Paul Alan Cox's Review Of Janice Reid's Sorcerers And Healing Spirits: Continuity And Change In An Aboriginal Healing System, Paul Alan Cox Jul 1986

Paul Alan Cox's Review Of Janice Reid's Sorcerers And Healing Spirits: Continuity And Change In An Aboriginal Healing System, Paul Alan Cox

Pacific Studies

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