Aboriginal
History is an annual refereed publication. It includes articles
and information in the field of Australian ethnohistory, particulary
in the post-contact history of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
Our articles are both cutting-edge and reflective.
Volume 31 (2007)
Rebe Taylor: The polemics of eating fish in Tasmania: the historical evidence revisited
David Trudinger: The language(s) of Love: JRB Love and contesting tongues at Ernabella Mission Station, 1940-46
Joanne Scott and Ross Laurie: Colonialism on display: Indigenous people and artefacts at an Australian agricultural show
Anna Haebich and Jodie Taylor: Modern primitives leaping and stomping the earth: from ballet to bush doofs
Michael Bennett: The economics of fishing: sustainable living in colonial New South Wales 85
Judith Littleton: Time and memory: historic accounts of Aboriginal burials in south-eastern Australia
Kelly K Chaves: 'A solemn judicial farce, the mere mockery of a trial': the acquittal of Lieutenant Lowe, 1827
Notes and documents
Darrell Lewis: Death on the Cooper: King's secret?
Chris Warren: Could First Fleet smallpox infect Aborigines? - a note
Anne Brewster: 'That child is my hero': an interview with Alf Taylor
Hilary Charlesworth: What Good Condition? Reflections on an Australian Aboriginal Treaty 1986-2006 - Launch speech
Aboriginal Treaty 1986-2006 - Launch speech
Indigenous history research resources online at AIATSIS
The Sally White / Diane Barwick Award for 2008
Reviews
Ann Curthoys: 'A Frontier Conversation', produced by Wonderland Productions for the Australian Centre for Indigenous History
Margaret Jacobs: A response to 'A Frontier Conversation'
Book reviews
Volume 30 (2006)
Special edition: 'Exchanging histories'
Edited by Frances Peters-Little, Ann McGrath and Ingereth Macfarlane
A McGrath, F Peters-Little, I Macfarlane: Preface
Kim Mahood: Mapping outside the square: cultural mapping in the south-east Kimberley
Tony Birch: Testimony
Maria Nugent: Historical encounters: Aboriginal testimony and colonial forms of commemoration’
Heather Goodall: Karroo : mates— communities reclaim their images
June Perkins: Tracks
Sylvia Klienert: Aboriginality in the city: re-reading Koorie photography
Faye Ginsberg and Fred Myers: A history of Indigenous futures: accounting for Indigenous art and media
Theresa Davis: ‘The spirit, the heart and the power’: an interview with the ‘Stiff Gins’ on music, friendship, and history
Tony Mitchell: Blackfellas rapping, breaking and writing: a short history of Aboriginal hip hop
Janice Peacock: Culture Cullt Clan 2001: comments on the survival of Torres Strait Culture
Francoise Dussart: Canvassing identities: reflecting on the acrylic art movement in an Australian Aboriginal settlement
Heidi Norman: A modern day corroboree: towards a history of the NSW Aboriginal Rugby Knockout
Tim Rowse: The public occasions of Indigenous selves: three Ngarrinjeri autobiographies
Reviews
Melinda Hinkson: Review of ‘Our community’ exhibition. Reviewed by Melinda Hinkson.
Sylvia Lawson: Along the pot holed track: meditations on mixed inheritance in recent work by Ivan Sen and Dennis McDermott
John Docker: A sour note on Peter Jackson’s King Kong
Book reviews
Rosamund Dalziell: Kayang and Me, Kim Scott and Hazel Brown, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, Western Australia, 2005, 270pp, $29.95
RENE BAKER FILE #28/E.D.P, Rene Powell and Bernadette Kennedy, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, Western Australia, 2005, 221pp, $24.96
Val Attenbrow: Botany Bay – where histories meet, by Maria Nugent, Allen & Unwin, 2005, pp? , $39.95
Ann McGrath: Shared Landscapes: archaeologies of attachment and the pastoral industry in New South Wales, Rodney Harrison, Department of Environment and Conservation, NSW and UNSW Press, Sydney, 2004; 240p, illustrated, with index
David Carment: Australian dictionary of biography: supplement 1580-1980 edited by Christopher Cunneen with Jill Roe, Beverley Kingston and Stephen Garton, xxii + 520 pp, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2005, $74.95
Maria Nugent: Aboriginal Victorians: a history since 1800 by Richard Broome, Allen & Unwin, 2005
Alan Atkinson: Bluff Rock: autobiography of a massacre by Katrina M. Schlunke, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, in partnership with Curtin University of Technology, 271pp, 2005, $29.95
Peter Read: Gaynor Macdonald, Two steps forward three steps back. A Wiradjuri Land Rights journey LhR Press, Canada Bay 2004, ISBN 0-9577766-2-4, 138 pp
Jeremy Long: Cleared Out, First Contact in the Western Desert, by Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson and Yuwali, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2005, 208pp, $45.00
Notes and documents
Obituary: Nancy de Vries
Barwick-White scholarship
Erratum volume 29
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