Monograph Contents

Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories
[ Monograph 16 (2007) ]

Preface Ingereth Macfarlane
1. François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance, Shino Konishi
2. Moving Blackwards: Black Power and the Aboriginal Embassy, Kathy Lothian
3. Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations, Thalia Anthony
4. Dreaming the circle: indigeneity and the longing for belonging in White Australia, Jane Mulcock
5. Resisting the captured image: how Gwoja Tjungurrayi, 'One Pound Jimmy', escaped the 'Stone Age', Jillian E Barnes
6. On the romances of marriage, love and solitude: freedom and transgression in Cape York Peninsula in the early to mid twentieth century, Jinki Trevillian
7. 'Hanging no good for blackfellow': looking into the life of Musquito, Naomi Parry
8. Leadership: the quandary of Aboriginal societies in crises, 1788 - 1830, and 1966, Dennis Foley
9. Sedentary topography: the impact of the Christian Mission Society's 'civilising' agenda on the spatial structure of life in the Roper Region of northern Australia, Angelique Edmonds
10. Sinful enough for Jesus: guilt and Christianisation at Mapoon, Queensland, Devin Bowles
11. Corrupt desires and the wages of sin: Indigenous people, missionaries and male sexuality, 1830-1850, Jessie Mitchell


Culture in Translation: The anthropological legacy of R. H. Mathews
[ Monograph 15 (2007) ]

Introducing R. H. Mathews 'Birrarak is the name given to me by the natives' Martin Thomas

Part 1: Rock Art and Daily Life
Introduction Martin Thomas
Contributions to the Ethnography of the Australians R. H. Mathews
Rock Carvings and Paintings by the Australian Aborigines R. H. Mathews
Plan of some Drawings carved or painted on Rock by the Natives of New South Wales, Australia R. H. Mathews

Part 2: Kinship and Marriage
Introduction Martin Thomas
Social Organisation of Some Australian Tribes R. H. Mathews
Remarks on the Natives of Australia R. H. Mathews
The Natives of Australia R. H. Mathews

Part 3: Mythology
Introduction Martin Thomas
Some Mythology of the Gundungurra Tribe, New South Wales R. H. Mathews
A Giant in a Cave-An Australian Legend R. H. Mathews
Australian Folk-Tales R. H. Mathews
The Wareengarry and Karambal R. H. Mathews
The Hereafter R. H. Mathews

Part 4: Language
Introduction Martin Thomas
The Wailwan Language R. H. Mathews
Language of the Kurnu Tribe, New South Wales R. H. Mathews

Part 5: Ceremony
Introduction Martin Thomas
The Mu?ltyerra Initiation Ceremony R. H. Mathews
Initiation Ceremony of the Birdhawal Tribe R. H. Mathews
The Bundandaba Ceremony of Initiation in Queensland R. H. Mathews

Part 6: Correspondence
Introduction Martin Thomas
Letters to E. S. Hartland R. H. Mathews
Letters to R. H. Mathews Moritz von Leonhardi
Letter to Moritz von Leonhardi R. H. Mathews

RHM Bibliography


'The axe had never sounded': place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania
[ Monograph 14 (2007) ]

Foreword by Senator Bob Brown
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.Setting Out
 The Officers
 The Savants
 Ships and Stores
Chapter 2.Recherche Bay
 Recherche Bay, revisited summer 1793
Chapter 3.Naturalists Ashore
Chapter 4.Botanising
 The Garden
Chapter 5.Measuring and Charting
Chapter 6.Seeking the Tasmanians
Chapter 7.Meeting the Tasmanians
Chapter 8.An Archaeological Heritage
Chapter 9.Labillardière's Luck
Chapter 10. Retrospect: Recherche Bay, History and Anthropology
Chapter 11.The Chaotic Years
 Whaling
 Piracy on the Brig Cyprus
Chapter 12.Lady Jane at Recherche Bay
Chapter 13.Good and Bad Times
 Coal Mining
 James Craig
Chapter 14.The Concept of Heritage
Chapter 15.National Heritage Nomination
 The Dénouement
References

What Good Condition?
[ Monograph 13 (2007) ]

Peter Read
What good condition?

Larissa Behrendt
Foreword

Steven Churches
Put not your faith in princes (or courts) - agreements made from asymmetrical power bases: the story of a promise made to Western Australia's Aboriginal people

Ravi de Costa
National encounters between Indigenous and settler peoples: some Canadian lessons

Peter Read
Doubts about the treaty

William Jonas
Reflections on the history of Indigenous people's struggle for human rights in Australia - what role could a treaty play?

Roderic Pitty
The political aspects of creating a treaty

Tim Rowse
From enforceability to feel-good: notes on the prehistory of the recent treaty debate

Sue Stanton
The challenge for Australia: reconciling the treaty

Eddie Mabo Jnr
A treaty for whom?

Michael Dodson
What is a treaty?

The Hon David Malcolm AC
Treaty: advancing reconciliation?

Garth Nettheim
International Human Rights: bases for Indigenous rights

Stephen W Robson
Consent: common law and native title

The Hon Justice Michael Barker
'Treaty': what's in a name?

The Hon Justice Ralph Simmonds
Customary Law and treaty

Lisa Strelein
Missed meanings: the language of sovereignty in the treaty debate

Greg McConville
Regional agreements, higher education and representations of Indigenous Australian reality

Greg McIntyre
Native title holding communities as treaty parties

Richard Ah Mat
The Cape York view

The Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous peoples' Rights in Education


'Peopling' the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal history in western Central Australia, 1850-1980
[ Monograph 12 (2005) ]

Foreword Tom Griffiths
Introduction
Peopling a frontier
Framing the region
Sources
872: smoke of grass fires still attended
1885: Tarn of Auber
1900: larceny of beef
Mangina Tjupurrula
Malkunta Tjupurrula
Mirilnga Tjapaltjarri
1902: back country
1916: third class pastoral lands
1929: all the nekkids
1941: Haasts Bluff
1967: 'Smiling faces from prehistory'
1974: Kungkayunti
Concluding comments
Archaeological epilogue
Acknowledgements
References


Many Exchanges: archaeology, history, community and the work of Isabel McBryde
[ Monograph 11 (2005) ]

Frontispiece Winifred Mumford A spatial history of the work of Isabel McBryde

Preface Ingereth Macfarlane

Section 1 Exchanges of ideas: the development of an approach to archaeological practice and its influences and outcomes

1. John Mulvaney Isabel McBryde: from regional research to national reconciliation and global heritage
2. Jack Golson The personality of New England: Isabel McBryde and the dimensions of regional archaeology
3. Mary-Jane Mountain Isabel McBryde: Professor of Prehistory, Australian National University 1986-1994
4. Robyne Bancroft Isabel McBryde: mentor, groundbreaker, teacher and friend
5. Dave Johnston Isabel McBryde: mentor, friend and inspiration
6. Denis Byrne Messages to Manila
7. Marilyn Truscott A cross-cultural journey: contributions to ICOMOS and World Heritage
8. Barbara Tjikura Ngapartji ngapartji
9. Mary Pappin Isabel McBryde: the people's person
10. Roy Kennedy Isabel McBryde: a driving force
11. Sharon Sullivan Out of the box: Isabel McBryde's radical contribution to the shaping of Australian archaeological practice
12. Peter Read The McBryde principle

Section 2 Exchanges within regions, between disciplines: integrative approaches

13. Iain Davidson, Nick Cook, Matthew Fischer, Malcolm Ridges, June Ross, Stephen Sutton Archaeology in another country: trade and symbols in north- west central Queensland
14. Sandra Bowdler Movement, exchange and the ritual life in south-eastern Australia
15. Betty Meehan and Rhys Jones Stone tool use in a land without stone: ethnographic notes from the Gu-jingarliya
16. Andree Rosenfeld Structural convergence in Aranda Art and song
17. Luise Hercus A hole in the ground and a quarry
18. Judith Littleton Data quarrying in the western Riverina: a regional perspective on post-contact health
19. Ann Curthoys Isabel McBryde as an historian
20. Helen Brayshaw On revisiting Gundy
21. Michael Pearson Paths on the sea: Australia's western shipping routes as part of an historic exchange network

Section 3 Exchanges in stone: lithic approaches to past social interactions

22. Rob Paton Trading places: a history of the Mt William Aboriginal stone quarry
23. Peter Hiscock Standardised axe manufacture at Mount Isa
24. Ken Mulvaney Dreaming of goods: the structure of artefact production and exchange in the Barkly Tablelands, Northern Territory
25. Sean Ulm, Stephen Cotter, Maria Cotter, Ian Lilley, Chris Clarkson and Jill Reid Edge-ground hatchets on the southern Curtis Coast, central Queensland: a preliminary assessment of technology, chronology and provenance
26. Philip Boot Transverse snapping on stone artefacts: experimental and archaeological evidence of a number of damage creation processes
27. Robin Torrence Valued stone: how so?
28. Jim Specht Obsidian tools in south New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Isabel McBryde list of publications 1961-2000

Contributors

Index