Oral History Commons^™

Making Histories: Developing An Oral History Of All In Australia, Alisa Percy, Bronwyn James, Tim Beaumont, Reem Al-Mahmood

Alisa Percy, PhD

How might our present understandings of our professional identities, our struggles, our achievements and our capacities for agency be better understood through the memories and accounts of those who championed our emergence? What might oral accounts of the emergence of our field offer beyond what can be gathered from its existing literature? Indeed, why look at the history of a professional field at all?

This session approaches such questions by reporting on oral accounts of the emergence and evolution of ALL in Australia. As we note some of the insights and lived experiences of those engaged in the formative years …

Bridgework: Repatriating Mardi Gras Indian Photography With The House Of Dance And Feathers, Rachel Breunlin

Rachel Breunlin

This article from the summer of 2013 issue of African Arts discusses the politics of representation around photographing Mardi Gras Indians, and how the House of Dance and Feathers, a small, community-based museum in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, has served as a site of memory. Using in-depth interviews from Ronald W. Lewis, the director of the museum, photographers, and Mardi Gras Indians around the city, it discusses how photography is used in and outside the tradition, and how creating a catalogue with the House of Dance and Feathers became a collaborative ethnography in repatriation.

365 And A Wakey, Mark Jamieson

Mark Jamieson

Laurence Gilbert D’Arcy (Larry) served in the Citizen Military Forces (CMF) from 20 June 1962 to the 12 February 1964 and the Australian Army from the 18 February 1964 to the 17 February 1973. The Army took Larry on a journey that encompassed a two year tour in Malaya, two combat tours in Vietnam and to his final posting as a gunnery instructor with 123 Training Battery. This book is a personal account of a soldier, it is a collection of memories from an artillery gunner in the Royal Australian Artillery (RAA) and the events contained within this book are …