In the recent public debate about the success or failure of Australia's Indigenous policies, opinions have been grounded more often in personal experience than in social scientists' research. By synthesising ten years' work from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), Tim Rowse fills that gap in public discussion. In Indigenous Futures: Choice and Development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia he begins by asking: What vision of the 'good life' should guide an assessment o...
When the Pelican Laughed
by Alice Nannup, Lauren Marsh, and Stephen Kinnane
Ancient Hawaiians lived in a world where all of nature was alive with the spirits of their ancestors. These 'aumakua have lived on through the ages as family guardians and take on many natural forms, thus linking many Hawaiians to the animals, plants, and natural phenomena of their island home. Individuals have a reciprocal relationship with their guardian spirits and offer worship and sacrifice in return for protection, inspiration, and guidance. Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits is told...
Aboriginality: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings and Prints
by Jennifer Isaacs
· 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...
In The Gauche Intruder, Jennifer Rutherford traces the formation of an Australian moral code at the heart of white Australian identity. Advocating an ethics of desire in opposition to morality, she demonstrates the link between morality and aggression in the history of white Australia, showing that aggression has historically manifested itself at the very moment when white Australia has set out to do good. The Gauche Intruder provides a first introduction to the social and political significance...
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.
Isaacs Jennifer : Australian Aboriginal Paintings
by Jennifer Isaacs
New Zealand photographer, Ross T. Smith originally worked as an intensive care nurse before starting a career in fine art photography. This book reproduces all 40 works from his recent "Hokianga" exhibitions, held at the Aukland Art Gallery and also at the The Photographers' Gallery in London. Young Maori are at the heart of his project, and it is their lives which encouraged its beginnings.
Longing for Belonging Among the Marginalized in Urban Australia
by Ritsuko Kurita
Nga Tini Whetu - Navigating Maori Futures brings together twenty-five papers Mason Durie has presented at national and international conferences between 2004 and 2010. It discusses Maori moving towards a future involving new technologies, alliances, economies and levels of achievement and being equipped to respond to the changes in a way that enables Maori to prosper and live in a changing world as Maori. This book builds on and extends Mason Durie's thinking in Nga Kahui Pou - Launching Maori F...
Indigenous Research into Mainstream Australian Culture
by Lorraine Muller
Informed by original ground-breaking research, this book “shifts the lens” of study, identifying how Indigenous Australian values and principles have influenced and contributed to an evolving non-Indigenous mainstream Australian culture. Based on the Indigenous principle of respect, Muller presents a solid research framework to break down the barriers of social differences in a culturally safe space. The text offers an insight into the cultural aspects of modern Australian society that contribu...