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Woven Historiesby Richard Davis
Aboriginal Studies Press 2004; US$ 35.00This multi-authored collection aims to communicate the unique histories and cultures of Australian Torres Strait Islanders to a broad audience. Not only have Islanders long absorbed the cultural influences from two surrounding landmasses and, more recently, negotiated the development of two nations in the region, their lives have been transformed by a 150 years of immigration and new economic and political conditions. more...
Kamilaroi & Kurnaiby Lorimer Fison; A.W. Howitt
Aboriginal Studies Press 1991; US$ 26.50A 'landmark in Australian anthropology' when it first appeared in 1880, this is the first major analysis of Aboriginal social structure, adopting a model today termed 'social Darwinist'. While this theory is now rejected, it exerted tremendous influence on European attitudes for decades. Kamilaroi and Kurnai is of particular relevance to Koories of Kurnai descent and to all students of Aboriginal anthropology and history. more...
Past and Presentby Jeremy Beckett
Aboriginal Studies Press 1988; US$ 26.50This book examines Aboriginal identity in various forums - discourse, education, juvenile institutions, geographic locations, in terms of myths and in land rights actions. A selection of authors drawn from a variety of disciplines present a readable collection of works covering the past and the present, and many issues which face Aboriginal people in Australia today. more...
A Bend in the Yarraby Ian Clark; Toby Heydon
Aboriginal Studies Press 2004; US$ 22.00The Yarra Bend Park marks one of the most important post-contact places in the Melbourne metropolitan area, and is of great significance to Victorian Aboriginal people, particularly the Wurundjeri Aboriginal community. At this site was located the Merri Creek Aboriginal School, the Merri Creek Protectorate Station, the Native Police Corps Headquarters and associated Aboriginal burials. more...
Saltwater Peopleby Nonie Sharp
Allen & Unwin 2002; US$ 25.45A fascinating insight into the culture of the saltwater peoples of northern Australian coasts, their profound knowledge of and attachment to their sea country, how this endured despite dislocation and repression, and how this has shaped their values and relations with territory - with telling contrasts to our own western institutions and their origins. more...
Stars of Tagaiby Nonie Sharp
Aboriginal Studies Press 1993; US$ 26.50Stars of Tagai is about life among the blue-water people of the Torres Strait Islands ? the title is drawn from the myth of Tagai which belongs to all Torres Strait Islanders. The book explores the changing life of these sea people, their creation and re-creation of identity, and their unique sea culture rich in meaning and custom. Covering the period from the mid-nineteenth century until today, this is the first book to examine the social issues involved in the Mabo case, and to give a picture of life of the Meriam people of the Murray Island.</p more...
Auntie Ritaby Rita Huggins; Jackie Huggins
Aboriginal Studies Press 1994; US$ 20.00Rita Huggins was stolen from her country as a child in the 1920s, and taken to what is now Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve. Life was ruled by the Aborigines Protection Act. From that time, she desired to make something better for herself, her family and Aboriginal people. She told her memories to her daughter Jackie, and some of their conversation is in this book. Witness their intimacy, their similarities and their differences. Two voices, two views on a shared life. more...
Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrinby Diane Bell
Spinifex Press 1998; US$ 24.95This finely textured ethnography weaves written texts with the voices of women and men who struggle to protect their sacred sites. It provides a deeper understanding of lives profoundly affected by two centuries of colonization. more...
Arrernte Present, Arrernte Pastby Diane J. Austin-Broos
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 25.00The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study to address the Arrernte’s contemporary situation, Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred years. Employing ethnographic and archival research, Diane Austin-Broos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the... more...
Maybe Tomorrowby Boori Pryor; Meme McDonald
Allen & Unwin 2010; US$ 18.17From the Aboriginal fringe camps of his birth to the catwalk, basketball court, DJ console and more...this is a new anniversary edition of Boori Monty Pryor's life, his pain, his joy and his hopes, and is as powerful now as it was when it was first published in 1998. more...