10/03/21 ABS1IAA - Introduction to Aboriginal Australia | La Trobe University

ABS1IAA - Introduction to Aboriginal View Online Australia

Subject Coordinator: Ms Julie Andrews

61 items

Required Reading (2 items)

Knowledge of life: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia - 2015 Book | Prescribed | Recommended reading before subject starts. Not compulsory.

The little red yellow black book: an introduction to indigenous Australia - Bruce Pascoe, David Horton, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2018 Book | Recommended | Recommended reading before subject starts. Not compulsory.

Week 1 : History (4 items)

Readings (3 items)

Chapter 1: A long, slow dance: the nation's history - Steve Kinnane Chapter | Prescribed

Our Heritage - Your Playground - R. F. Langford, 1983 Article | Prescribed | This article is archaeology focused. It is a short speech by an Aboriginal woman - Roslyn Langford - who was probably the first to address the Australian Archaeology conference about Aboriginal rights of ownership over archaeological burial sites. This was a powerful and thought provoking speech that began to change the way Australian archaeology was practised.

ch. 1, 'Kulin and Ngamajet' in Rebellion at Coranderrk - Diane Barwick Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter 1 of 'Rebellion at Coranderrk' / Barwick, D., Barwick, L.E., Barwick, R.E. and Aboriginal History Inc. Diane Barwick was a historian that researched Victorian Aboriginal history in the 1960s. Her work is still referred to today in Victorian Native Title.

Further Reading (1 items)

Conflict, adaptation, transformation: Richard Broome and the practice of Aboriginal history - Ben Silverstein, 2018 Book | Recommended

Week 2 : Australian Anthropology (4 items)

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Readings (2 items)

Aborigines and anthropologists - Gillian Cowlishaw, 1986 Article | Prescribed | This reading is by anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw and should be referred to for the workshop to assist with the in class discussion.

Anthropological texts and Indigenous standpoints - Martin Nakata, 1998 Article | Prescribed | This reading is by a Torres Strait Islander academic who is writing about anthropological research on the Torres Strait Islands. It is to provide the student with an understanding of an Indigenous perspective of anthropology.

Further Reading (2 items)

Visual Knowledge: Spencer and Gillen's Use of Photography in 'The Native Tribes' of Central Australia - Peterson, Nicolas, 2006 Article | Recommended | This reading is for students who want to read more on Australian anthropology. It is written by an Australian anthropologist who has worked over 40 years researching Aboriginal culture. It is a good article to read about visual anthropology.

Blaks and stats in Aboriginal Victoria: Census resistance and participation - Andrews, Julie, 2018 Article | Recommended

Week 3 : Australian Anthropology (continued) (4 items)

Readings (2 items)

ch. 6, 'Moieties and subsections' in The Aboriginal Australian in north-eastern Arnhem Land - Don Williams Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter 6 of 'The Aboriginal Australian in north-eastern Arnhem Land' / Maccoll, P.

Chapter 7: Kinship, Mobility and Community in Rural New South Wales - Jeremy Beckett Chapter | Prescribed

Further Reading (2 items)

Chapter 8: All One Family - Chris Birdsall Chapter | Recommended | Read Chapter 8 of 'Being Black: Aboriginal cultures in 'settled' Australia' / Keen, I.

Dark Emu: Black seeds agriculture or accident? - Bruce Pascoe, 2014 Book | Recommended

Week 4 : Real life / Oral history / The Aboriginal Tracker - how do

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stories reflect the past into the present? (6 items)

Films (3 items)

One night the moon - Paul Kelly, Kaarin Fairfax, Kevin Carmody, Kelton Pell, Mairead Hannan, Rachel Perkins, Australian Film Commission, Australian Council for the Arts, 2002 Audio-visual document | Prescribed

The Tracker - Rolf De Heer, 2002 Audio-visual document | Prescribed

Rabbit proof fence - Christine Olsen, John Winter, Phil Noyce, Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Doris Pilkington, South Australian Film Corporation, Australian Film Finance, c2002 Audio-visual document | Prescribed

Readings (3 items)

Three Lost Children: Revisiting a Heroic Legend - Nonie Sharp, 2010 Article | Prescribed

Disputing history, remembering country in The Tracker and Rabbit-Proof Fence - Felicity Collins, Therese Davis, 2006 Article | Prescribed

For God's sake send the trackers: a history of Queensland trackers and Victoria Police - Gary Presland, 1998 Book | Recommended

Week 5 : Race and Culture (6 items)

Readings (2 items)

'Black bit white bit' in Blacklines: contemporary critical writing by indigenous Australians pages 43-51 - Ian Anderson Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Blacklines - Contemporary critical writing by Indigenous Australians' / Grossman, M.

Am I too black to go with you? - Julie Carter Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter 4 of 'Being Black: Aboriginal cultures in 'settled' Australia' / Keen, I.

Films (2 items)

Backroads - Smart Street Films, Bill Hunter, Phil Noyce, Russell Boyd, Gary Foley, Backroads Productions, 1977 Audio-visual document

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In My Own Words - Informit EduTV - Erica Glynn, 2017 Audio-visual document

Further Reading (2 items)

Tiddas talkin' up to the white woman when Huggins et al. took on Bell - Aileen Moreton-Robinson Chapter | Recommended | Read Chapter of ‘Blacklines: contemporary critical writing by indigenous Australians’ / Grossman, M.

It's so hip to be black - Andrew Bolt Article | Recommended

Week 6 : Aboriginal Arts - Classical and Contemporary (Part 1) (5 items)

Readings (3 items)

The Concrete box - Hyllus Maris Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Paperbark: a collection of black Australian writings'

ch. 'Family document' in Storykeepers pages 223-240 - Alexis Wright Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Storykeepers' / Halligan, M.

Tiddalik's travels: the making and remaking of an Aboriginal flood myth - John Morton Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Floods in an arid continent' / Poiani, A.

Further Reading (2 items)

Telling stories in Australia: the depiction of Aboriginal people in contemporary young adult literature - Freida French, 2002 Article | Recommended

ch. 6, 'Indigenous voices in children's literature' in 'Reading race: Aboriginality in Australian children's literature' pages 159-190 - Clare Bradford Chapter | Recommended | Read Chapter of 'Reading race: Aboriginality in Australian children's literature' / Bradford, C.

Week 7 : Aboriginal Arts - Classical and Contemporary (Part 2) (4 items)

Readings (2 items)

ch. 4, 'Aboriginality and transnational black culture - hip hop and R & B' in Deadly sounds, deadly places: contemporary aboriginal music in Australia pages 119- 133 - Peter Dunbar-Hall, Chris Gibson Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Deadly sounds, deadly places: contemporary

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aboriginal music in Australia' / Dunbar-Hall, P. & Gibson, C.

ch 'The Politics of Aboriginal representation' in "Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television -- " pages 23-43 - Marcia Langton Chapter | Prescribed | Read Section 2 of "Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television -- " / Langton, M.

Further Reading (2 items)

The Ongoing Debate about Women playing Didjeridu: How a musical icon can become an instrument of remembering and forgetting - Karl Neuenfeldt, 2006 Article | Recommended

ch. 'I'm a bludger, I'm a drunk, I'm a jailbird - Dougie Young and the Troubadour tradition' in Buried country: the story of Aboriginal country music pages 89-99 - Clinton Walker Chapter | Recommended | Read Chapter of 'Buried country: the story of Aboriginal country music' / Walker, C.

Week 8 : The Politics of Health and Education (5 items)

Readings (5 items)

ch. 6, 'Literature: Writing ourselves' in Knowledge of life: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia pages 98-117 - Sandra R. Phillips Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter 6 of 'Knowledge of life: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia' / Price, K.

Sniffing business - Andrew Stojanovski Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Dog Ear Cafe' / Stojanovski, A.

Yuendumu's last stand - Andrew Stojanovski Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Dog Ear Cafe' / Stojanovski, A

First encounters - Andrew Stojanovski Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'King Brown Country: The betrayal of Papunya' / Stojanovski, A.

Back to the future - Andrew Stojanovski Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter 13 of 'King Brown Country: The betrayal of Papunya' / Stojanovski, A.

Week 9 : Aborigines and Sport (2 items)

Readings (2 items)

ch. 3, 'From rags to riches: Aboriginal people and the myth of the level playing field' in

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Good sports: Australian sport and the myth of the fair go pages 39-56 - Peter Kell Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Good sports: Australian sport and the myth of the fair go' / Kell, P.

Race relations, Indigenous Australia and the social impact of professional Australian football - Chris Hallinan, Barry Judd, 2009 Article | Prescribed

Week 10 : Aborigines and the Law - Deaths in Custody and the Koori Courts (8 items)

Readings (2 items)

Justice in black and white - Richard Guilliatt, 22 October 2010 Article | Prescribed

The rights of Indigenous Australians - Louise Chappell, John Chesterman, Lisa Hill Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter 5 of 'The Politics of Human Rights in Australia' / Chappell, L., Chesterman, J. and Hill, L.

Films (2 items)

Here I am - Madman Entertainment, Beck Cole, Kath Shepler, Shai Pittman, 2010 Audio-visual document | Prescribed

Cop It Sweet - ABC, 1992 Audio-visual document | Prescribed

Further Reading (4 items)

Indigenous sentencing courts - Michael King, Arie Freiberg, Becky Batagol, Ross Hyams Chapter | Recommended | Read Ch.11 of 'Non Adversarial Justice' / King, M., Freiberg, A., Batagol, B., and Hyams, R.

Not just payback : indigenous customary law. - Geoff Clark, 2002 Article | Recommended

ch. 2, 'The Myth of Law's Neutrality: Why formal equality doesn't work' in Achieving social justice: indigenous rights and Australia's future pages 21-55 - Larissa Behrendt Chapter | Recommended | Read Ch.2 of 'Achieving social justice: indigenous rights and Australia's future' / Behrendt, L.

ch. 'Sceptical thoughts on customary law' in Waking up to dreamtime : the illusion of aboriginal self-determination pages 152-171 - Kenneth Maddock Chapter | Recommended | Read Chapter of 'Waking up to dreamtime : the illusion of aboriginal self-determination' / Johns, G.

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Week 11 : The Northern Territory Intervention (4 items)

Readings (2 items)

Child sexual abuse: the intervention trigger - Francesca Merlan Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Culture Crisis: Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia' / Altman, J. and Hinkson, M.

'Only whitefella take that road': Culture seen through the intervention at Yuendumu - Yasmine Musharbash Chapter | Prescribed | Read Chapter of 'Culture Crisis : Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia' / Altman, J. and Hinkson, M.

Further Reading (2 items)

NT intervention three years on: government’s progress report is disturbing | Crikey - Jon Altman, 21 June 2010 Article | Recommended

Optional intervention gives choice - Marcia Langton, 16 October 2008 Article | Recommended

Week 12 : Mabo / What is Cultural Heritage? (7 items)

Film - Choose at least one film: (3 items)

Land Bilong Islanders - Ronin Films, 1989 Audio-visual document | Prescribed

Mabo - Life of an Island Man - Film Australia, 1997 Audio-visual document | Prescribed

Mabo - ABC, 2012 Audio-visual document | Prescribed

Readings (4 items)

Uluru stripper just wanted to 'rock' - ABC News, 28 June 2010 Article | Prescribed

Tourists 'using Uluru as a toilet' - SBS News, 23 August 2013 Article | Prescribed

Greens call for rock art protection against vandals - ABC News, 11 February 2011 Article | Prescribed

Paruku: Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia - Department of the Environment and

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Water Resources, 2007 Document | Prescribed

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