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Aboriginal History Journal
ABORIGINAL HISTORY Volume 38, 2014 ABORIGINAL HISTORY Volume 38, 2014 Published by ANU Press and Aboriginal History Inc. The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: [email protected] This title is also available online at: http://press.anu.edu.au All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Aboriginal History Incorporated Aboriginal History Inc. is a part of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, and gratefully acknowledges the support of the School of History and the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, The Australian National University. Aboriginal History Inc. is administered by an Editorial Board which is responsible for all unsigned material. Views and opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily shared by Board members. Editor Shino Konishi, Book Review Editor Luise Hercus, Copy Editor Geoff Hunt. About Aboriginal History Aboriginal History is a refereed journal that presents articles and information in Australian ethnohistory and contact and post-contact history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Historical studies based on anthropological, archaeological, linguistic and sociological research, including comparative studies of other ethnic groups such as Pacific Islanders in Australia, are welcomed. Subjects include recorded oral traditions and biographies, narratives in local languages with translations, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, archival and bibliographic articles, and book reviews. Contacting Aboriginal History All correspondence should be addressed to the Editors, Aboriginal History Inc., ACIH, School of History, RSSS, Coombs Building (9) ANU, ACT, 0200, or [email protected]. -
TINDALE, Norman
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AVIATION MUSEUM SIGNIFICANT AVIATOR PROFILES WGCDR Norman Barnett Tindale Intelligence Officer, WW2 Noted South Australian anthropologist’s unheralded role in World War 2 intelligence Norman Barnett Tindale is one of our lesser-known South Australians who served in World War 2, not in a combat role but in a critical enabling role where he directly contributed to the war effort at both the tactical and strategic levels. And yet, most people would be unaware of his incredible wartime role, his impact and remarkably, but sadly, he did not get much recognition for his service. What makes it even more surprising is that the gentlemen was a noted South Australian Anthropologist who had worked before the war at the South Australian Museum. Norman Barnett Tindale was born 12 October 1900 in Perth. He was the son of a Salvation Army accountant, James Hepburn Tindale and Salvation Army missionary, Mary Jane Barnett. In 1903 the family relocated to Adelaide and then in 1907, to Japan where James Tindale had been selected for an accountant position. In Tokyo, Norman Tindale attended Tsukiji Grammar School, a school for foreign children, and then from 1914, Yotsuya High School, a Japanese government school. After eight years in Japan, the family return to Perth in 1915 and then Adelaide in 1917. Awaiting an opening at the South Australian Museum in entomology, Tindale initially worked as a Library Cadet with the South Australian Public Library before becoming an Entomological Assistant at the SA Museum in 1919. Between the wars, Tindale became one of Australia’s most prolific anthropologists, travelling extensively throughout central Australia. -
Creating White Australia
Creating White Australia Edited by Jane Carey and Claire McLisky SYDNEY UNIVERSITY PRESS Published 2009 by Sydney University Press SYDNEY UNIVERSITY PRESS Fisher Library, University of Sydney www.sup.usyd.edu.au © Individual authors 2009 © Sydney University Press 2009 Reproduction and communication for other purposes Except as permitted under the Act, no part of this edition may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or communicated in any form or by any means without prior written permission. All requests for reproduction or communication should be made to Sydney University Press at the address below: Sydney University Press Fisher Library University of Sydney NSW Australia 2006 Email: [email protected] National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Creating white Australia / edited by Jane Carey and Claire McLisky. ISBN: 9781920899424 (pbk.) Subjects: White Australia policy. Racism--Australia. Australia--Emigration and immigration--History. Australia--Race relations--History. Other Authors/Contributors: Carey, Jane, 1972- McLisky, Claire. Dewey Number: 305.80094 Cover design by Evan Shapiro, University Publishing Service, The University of Sydney Printed in Australia Contents Contributors ......................................................................................... v Introduction Creating White Australia: new perspectives on race, whiteness and history ............................................................................................ ix Jane Carey & Claire McLisky Part 1: Global -
Diane Bell, the Ngarrindjeri and the Hindmarsh Island Affair: 'Value-Free'
Diane Bell, the Ngarrindjeri and the Hindmarsh Island Affair: ‘Value-free’ ethnography Richard Kimber NgaRRiNDJeRi WURRUWARRIN: a world that is, was, and will be (1998). By Diane Bell, M elbourne 1998. Pp. 688.$29.95. It was my pleasure to be present at the launch of NgaRRiNDjeRi WURRUWARRIN in Alice Springs in 1998. Professor Diane Bell and I had had intermittent friendly associa tions almost from the commencement of her fieldwork in central Australia over two decades ago. By sheer chance, at the very moment she recognised me in a local coffee shop and reintroduced herself, I was recommending a PhD student to read her Daugh ters of the Dreaming (1993 edition). She kindly invited us to what transpired to be a very successful launch. This friendly association of over twenty years, together with my respect for her hard years of work in central Australia, have made it difficult to review the book in question. Some friends might feel that they are obliged to write a glowing tribute, others that they should make an honest attempt to be objective, and to make constructive criticism. I have taken the latter stance, and trust that an honest hard- edged appraisal is preferable to sycophantic approval. The initial appearance and feel of the book is appealing. Even though I found the mix of upper and lower case in the title word NgaRRiNDjeRi irritating, and wondered at the choice of this spelling instead of Narrinyeri, anyone with even the vaguest under standing of Ngarrindjeri country would appreciate Muriel Van Der Byl's cover illustra tion of a pelican against the background of sun, sand-dunes and water. -
Native Title Groups from Across the State Meet
Aboriginal Way www.nativetitlesa.org Issue 69, Summer 2018 A publication of South Australian Native Title Services Above: Dean Ah Chee at a co-managed cultural burn at Witjira NP. Read full article on page 6. Native title groups from across the state meet There are a range of support services Nadja Mack, Advisor at the Land Branch “This is particularly important because PBC representatives attending heard and funding options available to of the Department and Prime Minister the native title landscape is changing… from a range of organisations that native title holder groups to help and Cabinet (PM&C) told representatives we now have more land subject to offer support and advocacy for their them on their journey to become from PBCs present that a 2016 determination than claims, so about organisations, including SA Native independent and sustainable consultation had led her department to 350 determinations and 240 claims, Title Services (SANTS), the Indigenous organisations that can contribute currently in Australia. focus on giving PBCs better access to Land Corporation (ILC), Department significantly to their communities. information, training and expertise; on “We have 180 PBCs Australia wide, in of Environment Water and Natural That was the message to a forum of increasing transparency and minimising South Australia 15 and soon 16, there’s Resources (DEWNR), AIATSIS, Indigenous South Australian Prescribed Bodies disputes within PBCs; on providing an estimate that by 2025 there will be Business Australia (IBA), Office of the Corporate (PBCs) held in Adelaide focussed support by native title service about 270 – 290 PBCs Australia wide” Registrar of Indigenous Corporations recently. -
Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region
PACIFIC LINGUISTICS Series C - 124 HANDBOOK OF WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES SOUTH OF THE KIMBERLEY REGION Nicholas Thieberger Department of Linguistics Research School of Pacific Studies THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Thieberger, N. Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages south of the Kimberley Region. C-124, viii + 416 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1993. DOI:10.15144/PL-C124.cover ©1993 Pacific Linguistics and/or the author(s). Online edition licensed 2015 CC BY-SA 4.0, with permission of PL. A sealang.net/CRCL initiative. Pacific Linguistics is issued through the Linguistic Circle of Canberra and consists of four series: SERIES A: Occasional Papers SERIES c: Books SERIES B: Monographs SERIES D: Special Publications FOUNDING EDITOR: S.A. Wurm EDITORIAL BOARD: T.E. Dutton, A.K. Pawley, M.D. Ross, D.T. Tryon EDITORIAL ADVISERS: B.W.Bender KA. McElhanon University of Hawaii Summer Institute of Linguistics DavidBradley H.P. McKaughan La Trobe University University of Hawaii Michael G. Clyne P. Miihlhausler Monash University University of Adelaide S.H. Elbert G.N. O'Grady University of Hawaii University of Victoria, B.C. KJ. Franklin KL. Pike Summer Institute of Linguistics Summer Institute of Linguistics W.W.Glover E.C. Polome Summer Institute of Linguistics University of Texas G.W.Grace Gillian Sankoff University of Hawaii University of Pennsylvania M.A.K Halliday W.A.L. Stokhof University of Sydney University of Leiden E. Haugen B.K T' sou Harvard University City Polytechnic of Hong Kong A. Healey E.M. Uhlenbeck Summer Institute of Linguistics University of Leiden L.A. -
Aboriginal Pantheon
ABORIGINAL PANTHEON There are many creation stories from the Aboriginals in Australia mainly because Australia is so large. The creation myth represented here is from the Bandicoot Aboriginal clan, in which Ka-Ro-Ra is the creator god. Aboriginals throughout Australia believe in Dreamtime (Alchera). This is the period long ago when the ancestral spirits of aboriginal tribes walked the earth and living creatures came into being. These ancestors are believed to have returned to their homes underground. Dreamtime is the source of all life. Below are some of the major gods found among the Aboriginals from different parts of Australia. ALINGA was the sun goddess. BUNJIL was a sky god (often painted as a great Eagle hawk). He was the creator god in the West of South Australia. He made the world and all things on it. He taught humans to sing and dance, and under his guidance humans gradually became wise in all things. In some stories it is said that he made men out of clay while his brother, Bat, made women out of water. DJANGGAO (sometimes spelled Junkgowa) and her sister Djunkgao were fertility goddesses. They created the ocean and all the fish found there. In Arnhemland (in Australia) the fertility goddesses are known as Wawalag. GIDJA was the god of the moon. He was in love with Yalma, the Evening Star. Yalma gave birth to the morning star, Lilga. When she died in an accident it was the first time anybody had died. People blamed Gidja for this and tried to kill him. They failed and Gidja cursed the people and told them that when they died they would stay dead. -
Unsettling Accounts
Critical Race and Whiteness Studies www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournal Volume 7, Number 2, 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE: FUTURE STORIES/INTIMATE HISTORIES Un/Settling Accounts: Telling Holocaust Stories in Colonised Australia Anna Szorenyi Gender, Work and Social Inquiry, University of Adelaide Cultural fascination with the Holocaust in Australia is often thought to distract attention from the history and legacies of colonialism. Here I tell fragments of stories about my family’s implication in both issues, in order to explore the ways in which they turn out to be part of the same narrative, or rather the same failure to narrate. The issue of Australia’s implication in the Holocaust does not so much compete with colonialism, as it cohabits in the ‘Great Australian Silence.’ Searching for ways in which to bring the story of the Holocaust ‘home’, I find myself ‘displaced’ by my inability to avoid this failure of narration, but also, in accordance with Butler’s theorisation of the ethical possibilities of such failures, brought to a space of ethical exposure in the present. ‘My being-in-the-world or my ‘place in the sun’, my being at home, have these not also been the usurpation of spaces belonging to the other man whom I have already oppressed or starved, or driven out into a third world; are they not acts of repulsing, excluding, exiling, stripping, killing?’ (Levinas 1989: 82). Two stories: 1. I have written before about the discovery that my father’s father was a Nazi collaborator (Szörényi 2010). Although no-one in my family knew it until 2009, this is a matter of public record, noted in memoirs published in Hungarian and in historical research published in English (Nagy 1986, Macartney 1957). -
Reclaiming the Kaurna Language: a Long and Lasting Collaboration in an Urban Setting
Vol. 8 (2014), pp. 409-429 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/ http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4613 Series: The Role of Linguists in Indigenous Community Language Programs in Australia1 Reclaiming the Kaurna language: a long and lasting collaboration in an urban setting Rob Amery University of Adelaide A long-running collaboration between Kaurna people and linguists in South Australia be- gan in 1989 with a songbook. Following annual community workshops and the estab- lishment of teaching programs, the author embarked on a PhD to research historical sources and an emerging modern language based on these sources. In response to numer- ous requests for names, translations and information, together with Kaurna Elders Lewis O’Brien and Alitya Rigney, the author and others formed Kaurna Warra Pintyandi (KWP) in 2002. It is a monthly forum where researchers, and others interested in Kaurna lan- guage, can meet with Kaurna people to discuss their concerns. KWP, based at the Univer- sity of Adelaide, is not incorporated and attendance of meetings is voluntary. The com- mittee has gained a measure of credibility and respect from the Kaurna community, gov- ernment departments and the public and has recently signed a Memorandum of Under- standing with the University of Adelaide. However, KWP and the author sit, uneasily at times, at the intersection between the University and the community. This paper explores the nature of collaboration between Kaurna people and researchers through KWP in the context of reliance on historical documentation, much of which is open to interpretation. Linguistics provides some of the skills needed for interpretation of source materials. -
Aboriginal Men of High Degree Studiesin Sodetyand Culture
])U Md�r I W H1// <43 H1�hi Jew Jn• Terrace c; T LUCIA. .Id 4007 �MY.Ers- Drysdale R. 0-v Cape 1 <0 �11 King Edward R Eylandt J (P le { York Prin N.Kimb �0 cess Ch arlotte Bay JJ J J Peninsula Kalumbur,:u -{.__ Wal.cott • C ooktown Inlet 1r Dampier's Lan by Broome S.W.Kimberley E. Kimberley Hooker Ck. La Grange Great Sandy Desert NORTHERN TERRITORY Port Hedland • Yuendumu , Papanya 0ga Boulia ,r>- Haasts Bluff • ,_e':lo . Alice Springs IY, Woorabin Gibson Oesert Hermannsburg• da, �igalong pe ter I QU tn"' "'= EENSLAND 1v1"' nn ''� • Ayre's Rock nn " "' r ---- ----------------------------L- T omk i nson Ra. Musgrave Ra. Everard Ra Warburton Ra. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Fraser Is. Oodnadatta · Laverton SOUTH AUSTRALIA Victoria Desert New Norcia !) Perth N EW SOUT H WALES Great Australian Bight Port �ackson �f.jer l. W. llill (lr14), t:D, 1.\ Censultlf . nt 1\n·hlk.. l �st Tl·l: ( 117} .171-'l.lS Aboriginal Men of High Degree Studiesin Sodetyand Culture General Editors: Jeremy Beckett and Grant Harman Previous titles in series From Past4 to Pt�vlova: A Comp��rlltivt Study ofIlllli1111 Smlm m Sydney & Griffith by Rina Huber Aboriginal Men of High Degree SECOND EDITION A. P. Elkin THEUNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLANDLffiRARY SOCIALSCIENCES AND HUMANITIES LIBRARY University of Queensland Press First edition 1945 Second edition © University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1977 This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism, or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no p�rt may be reproduced by any process without written permission. -
Accepted: April 15, 2013
MATHEMATICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL THEORY: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL VOLUME 5 NO. 5 MAY 2013 COMMENT ON DENHAM’S BEYOND FICTIONS OF CLOSURE IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL KINSHIP PETER SUTTON UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, AND SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM [email protected] COPYRIGHT 2013 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY AUTHOR SUBMITTED: APRIL 1, 2013 ACCEPTED: APRIL 15, 2013 MATHEMATICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL THEORY: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ISSN 1544-5879 SUTTON: COMMENT ON DENHAM’S BEYOND FICTIONS OF CLOSURE WWW.MATHEMATICALANTHROPOLOGY.ORG MATHEMATICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL THEORY: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL VOLUME 5 NO. 5 PAGE 1 OF 5 MAY 2013 COMMENT ON DENHAM’S BEYOND FICTIONS OF CLOSURE IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL KINSHIP PETER SUTTON Denham begins his paper on Australian Aboriginal marriage with two diagrams, Figures 1.1 and 1.2, which he describes as ‘canonical mechanical models of Kariera and Aranda kinship’ (p. 4). These are what he calls examples of ‘generational closure’ because they, and so many other similar kinship term charts, indicate ‘systematic bilateral sibling exchange in marriage’ (p. 6 footnote 2). He then goes on to argue, persuasively, that for reasons of human biology, including the need to avoid inbreeding, and because of a significant average age gap between Aboriginal men and their wives under the classical regimes, such closure could not have been practicable. As a result, these societies were in fact more open than closed, as kin networks or groups, than orthodoxy would have us believe. In other words, men could not have, as a general rule, married their actual mothers’ brothers’ daughters as the kinship diagrams purported to describe. -
82 3.3.4.4.3 Ecogeographic Studies of the Cranial Shape The
82 3.3.4.4.3 Ecogeographic studies of the cranial shape The measurement of the human head of both the living and dead has long been a matter of interest to a variety of professions from artists to physicians and latterly to anthropologists (for a review see Spencer 1997c). The shape of the cranium, in particular, became an important factor in schemes of racial typology from the late 18th Century (Blumenbach 1795; Deniker 1898; Dixon 1923; Haddon 1925; Huxley 1870). Following the formulation of the cranial index by Retzius in 1843 (see also Sjovold 1997), the classification of humans by skull shape became a positive fashion. Of course such classifications were predicated on the assumption that cranial shape was an immutable racial trait. However, it had long been known that cranial shape could be altered quite substantially during growth, whether due to congenital defect or morbidity or through cultural practices such as cradling and artificial cranial deformation (for reviews see (Dingwall 1931; Lindsell 1995). Thus the use of cranial index of racial identity was suspect. Another nail in the coffin of the Cranial Index's use as a classificatory trait was presented in Coon (1955), where he suggested that head form was subject to long term climatic selection. In particular he thought that rounder, or more brachycephalic, heads were an adaptation to cold. Although it was plausible that the head, being a major source of heat loss in humans (Porter 1993), could be subject to climatic selection, the situation became somewhat clouded when Beilicki and Welon demonstrated in 1964 that the trend towards brachycepahlisation was continuous between the 12th and 20th centuries in East- Central Europe and thus could not have been due to climatic selection (Bielicki & Welon 1964).