Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 47
Edited by: Crystal McKinnon, Ben SilversteinPlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
This volume opens with Joakim Goldhahn, Sally May, and Jeffrey Lee’s study of renowned Badmardi artist Nayombolmi, best known for his rock art but here considered as an artist who produced a number of bark paintings for collectors in the 1950s and 1960s. They show us how his representation of public stories of Spirit or Ancestral Beings emerges from a negotiation between the artist, collectors, and dealers, shaping the forms in which he shared Badmardi story.
The following two articles take up the theme of negotiation in contexts of segregation. Sam Furphy describes Yorta Yorta memory activism relating to Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Yorta Yorta Country in 1954, considering memories of the fence that was erected to place Yorta Yorta people beyond the Queen’s view and prevent any direct relationship between peoples. Cameron Raynes continues to study segregation by considering the disastrous health impacts of the colour bar that excluded Aboriginal people of the Point Pearce Station from the nearby Wallaroo and Maitland Hospitals in the early-mid twentieth century.
The next articles turn to relationships between Aboriginal people and colonists in Queensland. In a collaboratively written article, Alice Buhrich, Lewis Richards, Brian Bing, Jimmy Richards, Sharon Prior, Jenny Lacey, Tania Casey and Megan Mosquito narrate a history of past and ongoing Ewamian resistance to European invasion that stands in stark contrast to myths of Ewamian disappearance. Rebeka Manning and Sally Babidge read archives of Queensland pastoral stations for traces of Aboriginal women’s and girls’ domestic service, taking these hints as occasions for Aboriginal storytelling.
The final article, co-authored by members of the Aboriginal History Archive Will Bracks, Coen Brown, Clare Land, Gary Foley, John Hawkes, Kim Kruger, Rochelle le Pere, Natasha Ritchie and Shannon Woodcock, describes the work of that archive to produce a historical understanding that can provide the basis for describing and enacting Aboriginal self-determination.
The volume also includes a series of book reviews, as well as reflections on the life and work of Niel Gunson and Gordon Briscoe, two key figures in Aboriginal History whose influence is evident throughout these pages.
Details
- ISSN (print):
- 0314-8769
- ISSN (online):
- 1837-9389
- Publication date:
- Sep 2024
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/AH.47.2023
- Journal:
- Aboriginal History Journal
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: History; Social Sciences: Indigenous Studies
- Countries:
- Australia
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- Preliminary pages (PDF, 202 KB)
- Preface (PDF, 98 KB) – Ben Silverstein and Crystal McKinnon
- Contributors (PDF, 102 KB)
Articles
- The audience and the message: Nayombolmi’s bark paintings from western Arnhem Land, Australia (PDF, 3.8 MB) – Joakim Goldhahn, Sally K. May and Jeffrey Lee doi
- Remembering assimilation: Queen Elizabeth II’s 1954 visit to Shepparton and a ‘new deal’ for Victorian Aboriginal people (PDF, 348 KB) – Samuel Furphy doi
- ‘The most appalling disease one ever watched’: Medical racism at Yorke Peninsula in the mid‑twentieth century (PDF, 311 KB) – Cameron Raynes doi
- Undocumented: Queensland’s domestic service stories as traces in pastoral station records (PDF, 223 KB) – Rebekah Manning and Sally Babidge doi
- Resistance and reprisals: The Ewamian Frontier Wars 1863–98 (PDF, 1.5 MB) – Alice Buhrich, Lewis Richards, Brian Bing, Jimmy Richards, Sharon Prior, Jenny Lacey, Tania Casey and Megan Mosquito doi
- Black history powers the Aboriginal History Archive (PDF, 200 KB) – Will Bracks, Coen Brown, Clare Land, Gary Foley, Jon Hawkes, Kim Kruger, Rochelle le Pere, Natasha Ritchie and Shannon Woodcock doi
In Memoriam
- Gordon Briscoe AO (1938–2023) (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Peter Read, John Maynard and Ann McGrath doi
- Niel Gunson (1930–2023) (PDF, 133 KB) – Ingereth Macfarlane doi
Book reviews
- Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station by Shannyn Palmer (PDF, 77 KB)
- William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood and Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements (PDF, 108 KB)
- The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History edited by Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell (PDF, 93 KB)
- Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacie by Richard Price (PDF, 93 KB)
- Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums edited by Gaye Sculthorpe, Maria Nugent and Howard Morphy and Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks of Torres Strait Islander People by Leah Lui-Chivizhe (PDF, 110 KB)
- Music, Dance and the Archive edited by Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy (PDF, 89 KB)
- Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker and Jakelin Troy (PDF, 89 KB)
- The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island by Ann Curthoys, Shino Konishi and Alexandra Ludewig (PDF, 82 KB)
- Whitefella Way by Jon Rhodes (PDF, 88 KB)
- Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific edited by Angela Wanhalla, Lyndall Ryan and Camille Nurka (PDF, 103 KB)
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