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Aboriginal Victoriansby Richard Broome
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 29.05The fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement, from one of Australia's leading historians. more...
Millennial Monstersby Anne Allison; Gary Cross
University of California Press 2006; US$ 15.95From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese ?cool? is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese youth goods today while it questions the make-up of the fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play involved. Arguing that part of the appeal of such dream worlds is the polymorphous perversity with which they scramble identity and character, the author... more...
Settlementby Peter Read
Aboriginal Studies Press 2000; US$ 31.00This book encompasses the whole history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing. more...
Scars in the Landscapeby Ian Clark
Aboriginal Studies Press 1995; US$ 20.00Scars in the Landscape is a register of massacres and killings of Aboriginal people during 1803?1859. Deliberately challenging the ideology that the colonisation of Western Victoria was peaceful, the register reveal that violence was widespread. Through searching contemporary archival material, utilising Aboriginal oral history and local histories, and by studying place names in the region, Ian Clark presents a detailed, meticulously research study of massacres on one Australian region. more...
Anthropologist in Japanby Joy Hendry
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95An Anthropologist in Japan is a highly personal narrative which provides unique insights into many elements of Japanese life. more...
Beyond the Masksby Amina Mama
Routledge 1995; US$ 32.50An incisive and readable book which applies the insights of complex areas of contemporary social theory, first to investigate the history of racist psychology, and then to theorise the dynamics of black feminism. more...
Long Time, Olden Timeby Peter Read; Jay Read
IAD Press 1991; US$ 10.45The year is 1977, and Dinny Japaljarri remembers a time when the Northern Territory was a very different place. Twenty five years on, many of the events in this book now survive only in the memories of a generation that has passed, or is passing, away. Their stories, however, live on told here in the vibrant tradition of Aboriginal oral history, from the transcripts and recordings that form the basis for this fascinating and important document. From first contact with Macassans then Europeans, through two World Wars and beyond, Peter and Jay Read?s collection of stories stands as a unique record of Aboriginal accounts of the conflict and co-existence that have defined the flavour of the Territory. more...
Islands in Timeby Mark Patton
Routledge 1996; US$ 130.00Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island societies. It considers the prehistory of the Mediterranean islands including Cyprus, Crete and the Cyclades, Malta, Lipari, Corsica and Sardinia. more...
Negotiating Ethnicity in Chinaby Chih-yu Shih
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 195.00This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions. more...
Human Biology and Historyby Malcolm Smith
CRC Press 2002; US$ 99.95A unique interlacing of human biology and history, this book brings a fresh perspective to the subject and will appeal to all students and professionals across all levels of biology, archaeology, anthropology and social history. more...