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Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 7 »
Publication date: 1983
Since 1977, the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history.
Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra.
For more information on Aboriginal History Inc. please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au.
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Aboriginal arts and crafts and the market »
Publication date: 1983
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Tax assignment in federal countries »
Publication date: 1983
This book examines the assignment of taxes and other revenue sources among various levels of government in a federation. Four pap rs consider alternative normative approaches to revenue assignment - traditional, optimal taxation, public choice and tax effectiveness. Four papers are concerned with particular revenue sources - corporation income taxes, natural resource revenues, broad-based sales taxes and excises, and local government revenues in less developed countries. Five papers review the patterns of assignment which have been adopted in five economically advanced federations - the United States, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland and Australia - and in four less developed federations - Brazil, India, Malaysia and Nigeria. The papers were originally presented to a conference at the Australian National University in Canberra in August 1982. The conference was convened by the International Seminar in Public Economics in association with the Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations.
Sydney Parkinson: artist of Cook's Endeavour voyage »
Publication date: 1983
Despite the wealth of publications which have resulted, particularly this century, from Cook's Endeavour voyage - perhaps still the most scientifically rewarding voyage of all time - the career and work of the chief artist on the voyage, the young, untravelled Sydney Parkinson, have not so far received the attention they deserve. During a period of two years and four months from the beginning of the voyage until his untimely death at the age of 26 in Javanese waters, Parkinson made some 276 finished and 676 unfinished drawings of plants, 83 finished and 212 unfinished drawings of animals and perhaps 100 or so other drawings of people, scenery and boats - a staggering output not only considering the short period of time but also the conditions of working. Much of his output - especially the drawings of animals - remains the subject of further research, some fruits of which are displayed in this book. His early death and the pressures which deterred his employer, Sir Joseph Banks, from his purpose in publishing the results of the voyage, led to a neglect of Parkinson's contribution to art and science which this book will do much to remedy. The book will unlock for the specialist and for the general public the treasures which have been held for a century in the library of the British Museum (Natural History) and in the British Library in London. Following a biographical sketch Wilfred Blunt evaluates Sydney Parkinson's work as a scientific artist; regional experts on the flora of each o fthe countries on the route of the voyage explain and comment upon their selections of the botanical drawings; Alwynne Wheeler of the British Museum (Natural History) presents and comments upon his selection of the animal drawings; Adrian Horridge, well-known for his studies on the evolution of boat building in the Indonesian Islands, comments on Parkinson's drawings of boats, especially the 'flying proa' of the Marianas. Jeremy Spencer deals with the landscape sketches. The book will appeal to the general public for its wealth of unusual, beautiful and historic illustrations; to those interested in the literature and results of voyages of exploration; to botanists and zoologists interested in the plants and animals of the Southern Hemisphere. The research worker will find meticulous reference to the relevant literature and to the lo cation of originals of the illustrations. An index gives ready access to the immense amount of detailed information contained in the text.
Women's work and women's roles: economics and everyday life in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore »
Publication date: 1983
Early observers of Southeast Asian societies frequently commented upon the varied and disparate nature of women's work, and upon the authority and power which resulted from women's active participation in the economy. Undoubtedly women in some situations enjoyed far fewer restriction than did their comerpart in the homelands of their colonial rulers. The authors of this monograph have examined the roles of women, past and present, in a variety of societies, in Indonesia Malaysia and Singapore. The chapters deal with specific societies and situations, and no attempt has been made at a comprehensive overview of areas, ethnic origins, religious or social classes. However, certain themes recur. One is that, since development and modernization began, women's contribution to society has been increasingly ignored and undervalued. Second, although industrialized development has provided opportunities for training and for earning money outside the village environment, the opportunities have largely been for men. A third theme seems to be that, although many elite women have been able to take advantage of the opportunities generated by development, peasant women have almost always been disadvantaged. The chapters generally show that the official, Westen-influenced, view of the woman's role as primarily that of wife and mother has constituted a loss for all women, and has entrenched attitudes which do not necessarily conform to the realities of women past or present.
Tamana »
Publication date: 1983
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The Fijian people before and after independence »
Publication date: 1983
The Fijian People reviews social, economic, administrative and political change in Fijian society in the years before and after independence. These changes have been accepted, but modifications have had to be worked out within the continuing cultural values of Fijian society. As Dr Lasaqa points out the Fijian people face a number of handicaps in terms of economic development and population numbers, but they are managing to hold their own in a difficult and delicate situation. Some writers on Fiji have not been entirely understanding interpreters of Fijian needs and aspirations; they have brought to their studies outlooks and value systems not necessarily in keeping with the traditional Fijian ethos. This book is a Fijian's interpretation of life in Fiji. Although it is essentially a personal view, it tries to put this viewpoint in the broader context of Fijian social evolution and in the light of the Fijians' determination to face the challenges of the future in a non-colonial, independent and multiracial society.
China, ancient kilns and modern ceramics: a guide to the potteries »
Publication date: 1983
This is the first book about Chinese ceramics written by an Australian in co-operation with a long-time resident of China. Wanda Garnsey, through her long friendship with Rewi Alley, had access to up-to-date information not readily available to others. The book describes the search for historical facts relating to the long and sustained cultural growth of the Chinese people now being undertaken in China and the continuing manufacture of objects of beauty. Since 1949, when the Government of the People's Republic of China was proclaimed, extensive efforts have been made to preserve the antiquities that remain in the many tombs scattered over the countryside. Chinese archaeologists have laboured hard to annotate everything of value that has been discovered either in the course of construction work or in deliberate excavation. Cultural relics may no longer be exported without the consent of the Chinese government, and this book, with its many photographs, gives a glimpse of the great wealth of ceramics, both ancient and modern, that is part of the Chinese cultural tradition.
Margaret Mead and Samoa: the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth »
Publication date: 1983
In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence do not exist. Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial "negative instance," an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology. In Margaret Mead and Samoa, Professor Freeman presents startling but wholly convincing evidence that Mead's proof is false. On the basis of years of patient fieldwork and historical research, Freeman refutes Mead's characterization of Samoan society and adolescence point for point. Far from the relaxed transition to adulthood that Mead ascribed to permissive childrearing and tolerant sexual attitudes, Samoan adolescence, Freeman demonstrates, is a time of frequent stress in an authoritarian society with punitive methods of childrearing and restrictive regulations against premarital sex. Freeman's book thus corrects a towering scientific error. His aim is not to blame Margaret Mead but to understand how her error could have occurred and become basick to the doctrine of cultural determinism The result is a detective story in the history of science, one filled with engrossing details about cultural anthropology's battle with the eugenics movement, about Mead's relationships with her most important colleagues, Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas, and finally about her poor preparation for the field and the likelihood that she was duped by her adolescent informants. Beyond these particulars lie painful but important generalizations about how the truth in Science can sometimes be obscured by theory and how theory can sometimes be twisted by ideology.
The Academy reorganized: the R. & D. role of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1961 »
Publication date: 1983
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The gifted knight, Sir Robert Garran, G.C.M.G., Q.C.: first Commonwealth public servant, poet, scholar and lawyer »
Publication date: 1983
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Grammatical analysis of the Lao ch'i-ta with an English translation of the Chinese text »
Publication date: 1983
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Biographical register of the New South Wales Parliament 1856-1901 »
Publication date: 1983
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Youth, transition, and social research »
Publication date: 1983
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Bigger or smaller government?: papers from the sixth Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1982 »
Publication date: 1983
Papers from the sixth symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1982.
Hospital funding »
Publication date: 1983
This book reviews the basis of hospital funding in Australia. In addition to two background papers by the Commonwealth Treasury and Department of Health, and the Commonwealth Grants Commission, respectively, there are papers on Canada's system of hospital funding; on why Queensland's per capita hospital costs are so low and on why Western Australia's costs are so high, on factors affecting costs and efficiency in hospital administration; on hospital charges and revenue-raising capacity; on the likely future course of health funding; and on alternative methods of providing and financing hospital services, including greater reliance on the market in substitution for direct government provision. The authors include senior Treasury officers, hospital administrators and health economists.
Climate of Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1983
This book presents the first comprehensive study of the climate of Papua New Guinea. It is based on an exhaustive analysis and interpretation of the basic meteorological data from the country's extensive recording station network, a network which resulted from the need for accurate weather information for the operation of widespread airstrips in an otherwise inaccessible interior. The data collected made it possible to undertake a climatic survey and analysis for Papua New Guinea which is perhaps unique in its spatial extent and time span for a less developed country. The analysis has revealed the inadequacy of currently held theories of the major climatic controls operating in the region for explaining the various climatic patterns found there. The first chapters present a treatment of regional climatic controls which is in part entirely new. This explanation is then used as the basis for the succeeding chapters on specific climatic elements, the water balance and climatic classification. Papua New Guinea is a land of many and varied cultures, each with its own traditional agricultural practices which have often evolved in response to climatic factors. Climate is also of major importance in planning and implementing many resource development projects such as the construction of roads and of hydro-electric power stations. For these reasons this book is directed to agriculturalists, engineers, planners and students as well as to professional meteorologists.
The problem of command in the Australian defence force environment »
Publication date: 1983
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Tourism and underdevelopment in Fiji »
Publication date: 1983
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Soils of Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1983
The aim of this book is to bring together and summarise our present knowledge of the soils of Papua New Guinea. Although much of it is based on data collected during CSIRO's land resource surveys, the book also attempts to incorporate the widely scattered and relatively inaccessible information gathered by other researchers. The US Department of Agriculture's soil taxonomy classification has been used, since it is now internationally widely accepted and makes the data accessible to scientists working in other parts of the tropics. Eight orders, twenty-six suborders and sixty-one great soil groups have been identified in Papua New Guinea. Following an introductory section on the environment and a discussion on soil classification and mapping, the next chapters describe the soils at great soil group level according to the eight orders (Entisols, Elistosols, Inceptisols, Vertisols, Mollisols, Alfisols, Ultisols, and Oxisols). For each great group separate sections on morphology, genesis, occurrence, association, fertility, and land use are given. The second part of the book discusses soil related subjects, attempting as far as possible to synthesise the available information. A review of the various land inventory methods, including land system surveys is given, and soil erosion and conservation are discussed, as is the possible application of the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) to Papua New Guinea conditions. Type, depth, rate and the assessment of the degree of weathering are dealt with, together with some examples from Papua New Guinea. The author examines the content of primary nutrients (N, P and K) in some typical great soil groups and trace element deficiencies in tree crops. A review of soil microrelief features at various locations in Papua New Guinea is given, while the last chapter briefly examines traditional food crop agriculture, especially in relation to soil properties and crop yield declines under cultivation.
Access to privilege: patterns of participation in Australian post-secondary education »
Publication date: 1983
The main question addressed in this book is whether the social composition of higher education has changed since the 1930s and 1940s. Since that time there has been a tremendous expansion in higher education and policies have been developed aimed at increasing participation by the poor. The answer to the question appears to be that the social profile of higher education is remarkably constant over time; the authors point out, however, that the abolition of tuition fees after 1974 and the introduction of student allowances probably helped counter a regression to a more elite composition caused by the withdrawal of other assistance, particularly education studentships. Nevertheless the authors conclude that access to higher education remains mainly limited to the privileged.
Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 6 »
Publication date: 1982
Since 1977, the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history.
Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra.
For more information on Aboriginal History Inc. please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au.
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Population resettlement programs in Southeast Asia »
Publication date: 1982
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The Premiers' Conference 1905: report of proceedings »
Publication date: 1982
This book includes a facsmile copy of The Premiers' Conference 1905: Report of Proceedings and an Introduction by Professor P.D. Groenewegen describing and evaluating the contents of the report.
Service delivery to outstations »
Publication date: 1982
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