Rather than being seen as the expected outcome of the European colonial intervention, the
political and social situation of the Australian Aborigines has usually been interpreted in …

When the tiny town of Goombungee on the Darling Downs unveiled its memorial to the war
dead of the district there were the usual ritual proceedings, with prayers, hymns, and a …

The first part of the article discusses briefly the notions of genealogy and kinship within the
Euro-American epistemological context and advocates the necessity for a sharp distinction …

Personal names seem not to be of major interest to Australian Aboriginal anthropology, and
studies on this topic, already pointed out by Francoise Dussart in 1988, are relatively sparse …

It is generally supposed that Aborigines have been fighting a losing battle against invasion
for the last 150 years in South Australia. They have succumbed to disease, violence …

In the early summer of 1930, Peter Elkin, a prominent figure in early Australian anthropology,
travelled to the Mount Margaret Mission, near Laverton in the northern Goldfields region of …

Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of
Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issues of government control and …

Steele, JG Aboriginal Pathways in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River.
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1984. xix+ 366 pp. including glossary …