In this fascinating study of the Dhan-Gadi Aboriginal people of New South Wales, Australia,
the author combines the skills of a social historian with the detailed observation of a social …

Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people
through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to …

This thesis traces NSW Aboriginal political activity and demands from 1909 to 1939. In
examining the background to the situations of Aboriginal communities in the early 1900's …

Former missions and reserves occupy an increasingly important place in Australian
Aboriginal heritage, as sites of recent memory, ancestral resting-places, and the foci of …

This book provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories
involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century …

The need for a postcolonial re-writing of Aboriginal history which is more accurate than
earlier European perspectives is emphasised. It is recommended that Aboriginal …

In the last decade biographical writings have provided much-needed Aboriginal accounts of
the history of their interaction with Europeans in Australia. Nearly all of these life histories …

A recent exhibition staged by the National Gallery of Victoria Australia can be regarded as
an expression of the international difficult histories boom. In large part, its representation in …

Recent criticisms of ethnographic practice have focused attention on the way Aborigines
(among other groups) are represented in anthropological literature (Carrier 1992, 1995; …

Aboriginal history deals with diverse events, and historical processes of variable scale. It
also involves cross-cultural perspectives with many different layers of human behaviour and …