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  • The Sydney Language

    by Jakelin Troy ...
    The Sydney Language was written to revive interest the Aboriginal language of the Sydney district. It makes readily available the small amount of surviving information from historical records. Author, Professor Jakelin Troy refers to the language as the 'Sydney Language' because there was no name given for the language in these historical records until late in the nineteenth century when it was ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Everywhen

    Australia and the Language of Deep History

    Edited by Ann McGrath, Jakelin Troy, Laura Rademaker ...
    Series series New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
    Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Music, Dance and the Archive

    Edited by Linda Barwick, Amanda Harris, Professor Jakelin Troy ...
    Series series Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts
    Music, Dance and the Archive interrogates historical access and responses to archives by showing how Indigenous performing artists and community members, and academic researchers (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are collaborating to bring life to objects that have been stored in archives.It highlights the relationship between music and dance, as embodied forms of culture, and records in archives, ... Read more

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    How Aborigines made Australia

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    Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has ... Read more

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  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

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  • Landmarks

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent'Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow struck for the power of a deep ... Read more

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  • Murder Afloat The true story of massacre aboard the brig, Carl

    by Gordon Plowman ...
    Ships sailing the trading routes of the South Pacific in the 1800's mostly carried general merchandise. Other sailors sought fortunes gathering sandalwood and diving for pearls and pearl shell.But,in the latter half of the century a much more lucrative trade developed - the labour trade.Plantation owners in Australia and Fiji were desperate for a source of cheap labour. Their dreams were fulfilled ... Read more

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  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Read more

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  • Critical Conversations in Kaupapa Māori

    Edited by Te Kawehau Hoskins, Alison Jones ...
    Kaupapa Māori theory and methodology developed over twenty years ago and have since become influential in social research, practice and policy areas. This collection furthers knowledge about kaupapa Māori by examining its effects over the decades, identifying and discussing its conventions and boundaries and reflecting on kaupapa Māori in social and educational research and practice. The ... Read more

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  • The Colony

    A history of early Sydney

    by Grace Karskens ...
    The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city.From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Grace Karskens skilfully reveals how landscape shaped the lives of the original ... Read more

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  • Kin

    Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose

    Edited by Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew ...
    The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for ... Read more

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  • People of the River

    Lost worlds of early Australia

    by Grace Karskens ...
    A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.Winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Australian History 2021Winner of the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize 2021Co-winner of the Ernest Scott ... Read more

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