Santa Isabel (British Museum Research Publications)
by Ben Burt and Geoffrey White
Human Biology in Papua New Guinea (Research Monographs in Human Population Biology, #10)
Papua New Guinea shows great diversity in a small geographical area. More than a quarter of the world's languages are found there among less than four million people. It can thus be regarded as a `small cosmos' in which complex interrelationships can be studied within a connected whole. In this book, the human biology of Papua New Guinea is described and studies are presented of the geography, demography, social anthropology, linguistics, and human genetics of the country. These studies are...
Drawing on early colonial cources as well as the writing of amateur and professional anthropologists, liguists and archaeloogists, Aboriginal Economy and Society compares the socail life and culture os seven regions of Australia as they appear to have been at the threshold of colonisation. With a focus on the economy,the broad scope of the book encmpasses variation in environmental conditions, resources and technologies; key institutions including kinship,cosmologies and governance; and organisa...
In this first detailed account of growing up in Tonga, Helen Morton focuses on the influence of anga fakatonga (""the Tongan way"") in all facets of Tongan childhood, from the antenatal period to late adolescence. Childhood is a crucial period when cultural identity and notions of tradition are constructed, as well as beliefs about self, personhood, and emotion. Based on her anthropological fieldwork and her experiences in Tonga over several years, Morton traces the Tongan socialization process-...
Rehearsal Practices of Indigenous Women Theatre Makers
by Liza-Mare Syron
This transnational and transcultural study intimately investigates the theatre making practices of Indigenous women playwrights from Australia, Aotearoa, and Turtle Island. It offers a new perspective in Performance Studies employing an Indigenous standpoint, specifically an Indigenous woman’s standpoint to privilege the practices and knowledges of Maori, First Nations, and Aboriginal women playwrights. Written in the style of ethnographic narrative the author affords the reader a ringside sea...
"... the story of Minyjun (Monty Hale), a senior Ngulipartu man from the Pilbara region of Western Australia."--Back cover.
In 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territory, and technoscientific expertise that shaped the disaster’s outco...
Morning Star Rising (Indigenous Pacifics)
by Lecturer Camellia Webb-Gannon
That Indonesia's ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of merdeka (freedom) in its many forms, what holds West Papuans together is greater than what divides them. Today, the Morning Star glimmers on the horizon, the supreme symbol of merd...
Pacific Spaces (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology)
Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected. The contributors to this book - architectural practitioners, architectural and spatial design theorists, anthropologists and historians - show not only how new theoretical perspectives can arise out of comparing aspects specific to one discipline with their equivalents of another, but also demonstrate how a space of emergenc...
Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders (Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology)
by Edward Shortland
This historical and anthropological account of the Maori of New Zealand was published in 1854 by the English physician and colonial administrator Edward Shortland (1812–93). Shortland was deeply interested in Maori culture, learned the language, and wrote ethnographic studies including The Southern Districts of New Zealand (1851) and Maori Religion and Mythology (1882), also included in this series. In various roles including 'Protector of Aborigines', he often served as interpreter, and played...
In Australia, a ‘tribe’ of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. ‘White anti-racists’ find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies. These dilemmas are fueled by tension between the twin desires of equality and d...
***Longlisted for the inaugural Australian Political Book of the Year Award!***A searing analysis of the idea of Australia and the truth of the nation, its greatest strengths and most important challenges, and how Australia as a country can achieve its potential and become a smart, compassionate, engaged, fair and informed nation.What is the 'idea of Australia'? What defines the soul of the nation? Is it an egalitarian, generous, outward-looking country? Or is Australia a place that has retreate...
Snake Dancing is the second volume of Roberta Sykes' three volume autobiography, Snake Dreaming. It chronicles Roberta's increasing politicisation and involvement in the Black movement to the time of her invitation from Harvard to take up postgraduate study in the United States.Struggling to overcome the effects of her ordeals in Snake Cradle, Roberta Sykes gradually moves into the national spotlight as a writer and as First Secretary of the Aboriginal Embassy set up in a tent on the lawns of Pa...
This important new book gives a thorough and very interesting survey of the history of the Maori population from earliest times to the present, concentrating particularly on the demographic impact of European colonization. It also considers present and future population trends, many of which have major implications for social and resource policy. Among questions explored are the marked fertility decline of the 1970s, urbanization, emigration, especially to Australia, and regional population patt...
Samoan Medical Belief and Practice
This comprehensive study of Samoan medicine explores why traditional Samoan medical beliefs and treatments, in the hands of skilled practitioners, continue to flourish alongside Western medical practice.
· Written at the request of the Aboriginal people the author stayed with · Explores the use of dreamtime, spirit guides and telepathy to discover and reprogramme the subconscious motivations, thought patterns and beliefs behind illness · Reveals how to tap in to healing support through the body/mind/spirit connection In 1983 award-winning physicist, Gary Holz, was diagnosed with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis. By 1988 he was a quadriplegic. Then, in 1994, his doc...
Islands of Hope (Pacific)
Australian Ways (Studies in society, #30)
This collection, the first of its kind in Australia, illustrates the richness of data and analysis born of the anthropological study of contemporary white Australian society.The studies presented here deal with diverse settings and events, ranging from a community's responses to a bushfire in rural NSW to the messages encoded in a male strip show in Adelaide. Work and leisure, family life and institutional relationships, natural disaster and culturally manipulated violence, the particular experi...
The Greeks have made an enormous contribution to Australian cultural and social life, and this book vividly tells their story. Beginning with an examination of the conditions in Europe that led to migration, it details the role of the Greeks in Australian settlement, the two large waves of Greek migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the ways in which the Greeks have maintained a solid sense of Greek cultural expression. Numbering approximately half a million, the Greek communi...
The book will contain a large number of both colour and black-and-white photographs from the author's field work, including stills of the artists, works in production, ritual objects, and ceremonies. Thirty full-page plates of acrylic paintings will be included from various collections. It is a unique book that combines an appreciation of Aboriginal art with contemporary theoretical concerns. On one level, it is a beautifully illustrated book about contemporary Aboriginal art from the Central De...
This is the first analysis of Maori carving styles by tribal area ever written. Simmons draws on the work of Kendall and an important new source to provide a coherent analysis of style and symbolism in Maori carving. The first part of the book discusses the mythological context and symbolism in Maori art, and the second is a painstaking analysis of the older serpentine and more recent square styles by tribes following the main lines of intertribal communication. Each section is illustrated by dr...
This book focuses on the resistance practices digitally enacted by a group of refugees in the context of the Australian detention policy. Drawing on critical-, multimodal- and ethnographic-discursive analytical research, the author brings to the fore the digitally mediated lived experiences of detained refugees as articulated from Australia-run offshore and onshore detention facilities. The book unveils how refugees’ self-representation and counter-discursive practices on social media aim to dis...