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Pictures from my memory : my story as a Ngaatjatjarra woman
\"I want our past to be recorded for future generations to read and know and understand how life was for us desert Aboriginal people and how we live our lives now. The Whiteman and the things that he brought with him hugely influenced the changes that occurred in our lives and in our society. I am a person that experienced these changes and I want to share, from my perspective, these experiences with my people and with all these persons around the world that show a great interest in Aboriginal people, and with all those who continually keep asking me the same old questions.\"--Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis. Pictures from my memory is a compelling autobiographical account of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis's life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman from the Australian Western Desert. Born in the bush at the time of first contact between her family and White Australians, Ellis's vivid personal reflections offer both an historical record and profound emotional insight into her unique experience of being woven between cultures - her Aboriginal community and the Western worlds. Ellis shares her first memories as an Aboriginal child living in communities, through her schooling years on the reserves and the progressive culture changes that her family experienced, to her work as a renowned linguist and interpreter for judges and politicians.
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Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane
First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals and point of view. This groundbreaking and enduring study was researched in North-West Australia between 1935 and 1936 and was written by a woman who truly pioneered the study of gender in anthropology
Chapter 1 Wielders of the Digging-Stick; Chapter 2 The Social and Spiritual Background of the Aboriginal Child; Chapter 3 Childhood; Chapter 4 On the Threshold of Marriage; Chapter 5 The Laws of Marriage and the Needs of the Individual; Chapter 6 Rights and Duties of Women in Marriage; Chapter 7 The Functions of Women in the Larger Social Groups; Chapter 8 The Spiritual Heritage of Aboriginal Woman; Chapter 9 Women's Ceremonies; Chapter 10 Women's Secret Corroborees; Chapter 11 Aboriginal Women - Sacred and Profane
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Inside Tracks : Robyn Davidson's solo journey across the Outback /
At once the story of a twenty-seven-year-old Australian woman who sets off to cross the desolute Western Australia desert with her camels and dog; a fascinating pictorial journal by photographer Rick Smolan, taken while photographing her journey; and an inside look at the images and screenplay of the extraordinary movie based on the now-famous trek.
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Pictures From My Memory
Pictures From My Memory is a compelling and accessible autobiographical account of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis' life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman from the Australian Western Desert. Born in the bush at the time of first contact between her family and White Australians, Ellis's vivid personal reflections offer both an historical record and profound emotional insight into her unique experience of being woven between cultures her Aboriginal community and the Western worlds. The book is preceded by an introduction and followed by an anthropological overview of Ngaatjatjarra culture by anthropologist Laurent Dousset.
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Experiments in self-determination
Outstations, which dramatically increased in numbers in the 1970s, are small, decentralised and relatively permanent communities of kin established by Aboriginal people on land that has social, cultural or economic significance to them. In 2015 they yet again came under attack, this time as an expensive lifestyle choice that can no longer be supported by state governments. Yet outstations are the original, and most striking, manifestation of remote-area Aboriginal people’s aspirations for self-determination, and of the life projects by which they seek, and have sought, autonomy in deciding the meaning of their life independently of projects promoted by the state and market. They are not simply projects of isolation from outside influences, as they have sometimes been characterised, but attempts by people to take control of the course of their lives. In the sometimes acrimonious debates about outstations, the lived experiences, motivations and histories of existing communities are missing. For this reason, we invited a number of anthropological witnesses to the early period in which outstations gained a purchase in remote Australia to provide accounts of what these communities were like, and what their residents’ aspirations and experiences were. Our hope is that these closer-to-the-ground accounts provide insight into, and understanding of, what Indigenous aspirations were in the establishment and organisation of these communities.
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Indigenous Mobilities
\"This edited collection focuses on Aboriginal and Māori travel in colonial contexts. Authors in this collection examine the ways that Indigenous people moved and their motivations for doing so. Chapters consider the cultural aspects of travel for Indigenous communities on both sides of the Tasman. Contributors examine Indigenous purposes for mobility, including for community and individual economic wellbeing, to meet other Indigenous or non-Indigenous peoples and experience different cultures, and to gather knowledge or experience, or to escape from colonial intrusion. ‘This volume is the first to take up three challenges in histories of Indigenous mobilities. First, it analyses both mobility and emplacement. Challenging stereotypes of Indigenous people as either fixed or mobile, chapters deconstruct issues with ramifications for contemporary politics and analyses of Indigenous society and of rural and national histories. As such, it is a welcome intervention in a wide range of urgent issues. Second, by examining Indigenous peoples in both Australia and New Zealand, this volume is an innovative step in removing the artificial divisions that have arisen from “national” histories. Third, the collection connects the experiences of colonised Indigenous peoples with those of their colonisers, shifting the long-held stereotypes of Indigenous powerlessness. Chapters then convincingly demonstrate the agency of colonised peoples in shaping the actions and the mobility itself of the colonisers. While the volume overall is aimed at opening up new research questions, and so invites later and even more innovative work, this volume will stand as an important guide to the directions such future work might take.’ — Heather Goodall, Professor Emerita, UTS\"
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An examination of health promotion and social inclusion activities: A cross-sectional survey of Australian community Men's Sheds
Issue addressed: The activities and well-being outcomes from participating at Men's Sheds are the focus of a growing body of research. Although many Men's Sheds have a clear health or social philosophy, this does not always translate into health and social activities.
Method: This cross-sectional survey explored the health promotion and social inclusion activities of Men's Sheds and features of Sheds that predict greater levels of these activities. All Australian Men's Sheds were invited to participate. Based on survey responses, Sheds were classified as \"active\" or \"not active\" in health promotion and social inclusion, which formed the main survey outcomes. Profiles of the responding Sheds were summarised and compared against the main survey outcomes. Multivariate logistic regression analyses explored the profile variables associated with \"active\" Sheds.
Results: Responses from 300 Sheds indicated 37% and 70% of Sheds were \"active\" in health promotion and social inclusivity respectively. Number of members, members with mental illness or of Indigenous descent, providing meals and targeting war veterans were associated with health promotion. Having five or more members with a disability, members with English as a second language, targeting of war veterans were associated with social inclusiveness.
Conclusions: Men's Sheds may serve as a unique community resource to reduce barriers of access to preventative health care, education and social connectedness, especially for marginalised members and those living in rural communities.
So what?: A proportion of Men's Sheds reflects the health and well-being exemplars mentioned in the National Male Health Policy that can help to counter the social determinants of poor health, particularly for marginalised males.
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Elizabeth Durack's: Mid west landscapes
In 1961 Elizabeth Durack (1915 - 2000) was one of four Western Australian artists included in the 'Recent Australian Painting' exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. The others selected by Bryan Robertson on a tour of Australia the previous year were Guy Grey-Smith, Robert Juniper and John Lunghi. Four years later, in 1965, the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth presented a mid-career survey exhibition of her work. These two events secured Durack's reputation as a significant interpreter of the Western Australian landscape and chronicler of its inhabitants.
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Practice, Politics and Ideology of the 'Travelling Business' in Aboriginal Religion
The catalytic role of religion in social and cultural change among Aborigines of the Kimberleys in the north of Australia is examined. Three major strands in the anthropology of Australian Aborigines are identified.
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