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In recent years there has been a substantial growth in the literature of Auatralian Aboriginal Studies. While much of this has touched on past and present economic issues from a historical, political or social viewpoint, its result has been to emphasise the need for a synthesis of the available information on the economic status of Aborigines in Australia. This book provides a survey of studies so far made on various aspects of current Aboriginal economic life in different environments in Australia, and raises questions of economic policy which follow from their results. In this the authors break new ground in the breadth of their canvass and by their extension of issues previously limited to the realm of social welfare to that of economic policy. This book is prefaced by a brief description of the historical background to the Aboriginal 'economy', and introduced by an overview of the relatively unequal economic status of Aborigines in the Australian economy today. It then surveys the available information on the economic position of Aborigines in the different segments of society in remote and settled Australia in which they live: government settlements and missions; pastoral stations; decentralised communities; urban and rural communities; and the major urban areas. Finally some general economic issues are raised. Aspects of economic status surveyed in the various chapters include demographic and geographic features; health conditions; education facilities; employment; income, expenditure; housing; and the influence of prejudice on economic opportunity. ... Read more

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'Living archaeology,' says Richard Gould, 'is ethnoarchaeology in the active voice'. Using as case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author presents a unified theory of ethnoarchaeology. He demonstrates a reliable way to infer adaptive behavior in prehistoric communities by studying adaptive behavior in a contemporary society and noting the evidence of this behavior in material discards. Gould examines and dismisses the argument by analogy, long accepted as fundamental in earlier archaeological studies of this kind, and, as an alternative, he proposes the argument by anomaly. The book starts by recording a day in the life of a traditional Australian Desert Aborigine camp. the author identifies many social, verbal, and ideational interactions that would be difficult, if not impossible, to infer directly from the typical 'archaeological' remains of this non-material behavior. The book examines differences between actual as opposed to anticipated human behavior and suggests that understanding the reasons for these contrasts is what characterizes ethnoarchaeology at its best. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Archaeology in Oceania, published by Oceania Publication on October 1, 2008. The length of the article is 5826 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Characterising volcanic glass sources in the Banks Islands, Vanuatu.(Research Report)
Author: Christian Reepmeyer
Publication: Archaeology in Oceania (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
Publisher: Oceania Publication
Volume: 43Issue: 3Page: 120(8)

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This text explores how the first inhabitants reached Australia over 50,000 years ago. Using archaelogical evidence and aboriginal oral traditions, the book tells the history of these people. It examines the ways in which the Aborigines adapted to and modified their environment, and how their art and culture developed. This revised edition incorporates information on recent archaelogical discoveries. It features a revision of the chapters on Pleistocene rock art and the extinction of the megafauna. ... Read more

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The original papers collected in this pioneering volume address the historical archaeology of Aboriginal Australia and its application in researching the shared history of Aboriginal and settler Australians. The authors draw on case studies from across the continent to show how archaeology can illuminate the continuum of responses by indigenous Australians to European settlement and colonization. ... Read more

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July-September 1957. Includes: Buiried Pomps of Yesteryear; Archaeology--History from the Earth; The Flood--Noah's Flood-Fact or Fiction Part 5; Ancient Customs--The transfer of a Birthright; Egypt--Treasures in Egypt; Writing--A King in Exile. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, published by University of Hawaii Press on March 22, 2008. The length of the article is 6415 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Edge-ground and waisted axes in the Western Pacific Islands: implications for an example from the Yaeyama Islands, southernmost Japan.
Author: Atholl Anderson
Publication: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2008
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Volume: 47Issue: 1Page: 45(14)

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This digital document is an article from Oceania, published by University of Sydney on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 5543 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Australian National University--Vanuatu Cultural Centre Archaeology Project, 1994-97: Aims and Results.
Author: Stuart Bedford
Publication: Oceania (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Sydney
Volume: 70Issue: 1Page: 16

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This digital document is an article from Archaeology in Oceania, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1199 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Palaeo-Environmental Change and the Persistence of Human Occupation in South-Western Australian Forests.(Book Review)
Author: Val Attenbrow
Publication: Archaeology in Oceania (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40Issue: 2Page: 77(2)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Florida Museum of Natural History, Dove Cottage, Istanbul Archaeology Museums, Western Australian Museum, Robillard Block, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Museo Dell'opera Del Duomo, Ribe Kunstmuseum. Excerpt:Dove Cottage Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District . It is best known as the home of William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking". During this period, William wrote much of the poetry for which he is remembered today, including his "Ode: Intimations of Immortality ", "Ode to Duty", "My Heart Leaps Up" and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ", together with parts of his autobiographical epic, The Prelude . William married his wife Mary in 1802, and she and her sister joined the Wordsworths at Dove Cottage. The family quickly expanded, with the arrival of three children in four years, and the Wordsworths left Dove Cottage in 1808 to seek larger lodgings. The cottage was then occupied by Thomas de Quincey for a number of years, before being let to a succession of tenants. The cottage was acquired by the Wordsworth Trust in 1890 and opened to the public in 1891. The house is a Grade 1 listed building , and remains largely unchanged from Wordsworth's day. It receives approximately 70,000 visitors a year. Before Wordsworth Dove Cottage was built in the early 17th century, beside the main road from Ambleside to the south to Keswick to the north. It was probably purpose-built as a public house , and it is first recorded as the "Dove and Olive", an inn included in a list of public houses in Westmoreland in 1617. It remained a public house, sometimes called the "Dove and Olive Branch", until it closed in 1793. The history of the cottage is ... ... Read more

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Title: Indigenous perceptions of contact at Inthanoona, Northwest Western Australia.
Author: Alistair Paterson
Publication: Archaeology in Oceania (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2009
Publisher: Oceania Publication
Volume: 44Issue: 1Page: S99(13)

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Title: Clothing and modern human behaviour: prehistoric Tasmania as a case study.(Case study)
Author: Ian Gilligan
Publication: Archaeology in Oceania (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42Issue: 3Page: 102(10)

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This digital document is an article from Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, published by University of Hawaii Press on March 22, 2008. The length of the article is 7386 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The changing role of irrigated Colocasia esculenta (taro) on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands: from an essential element of colonization to an important risk-reduction strategy.
Author: David J. Addison
Publication: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2008
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Volume: 47Issue: 1Page: 139(17)

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David McKnight has been conducting research among the aboriginal community on Mornington Island, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia for more than 30 years. This volume is about the social change he has witnessed and the devastating effects of alcohol on this community. McKnight charts the progress of this growing alcohol consumption and explores how it now affects all reaches of the communities lives - local politics, marriage, child-rearing practices, gender relationships, dance festivals, outstations, employment, law, housing and education. The author also takes a sensible and fascinating look at the origins of this habit. ... Read more

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This extraordinary book explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land. Peter Read asks the pivotal questions: What is the meaning of places important to non-Aboriginal Australians from which the Indigenous people have already been dispossessed? How are contemporary Australians thinking through the problem of knowing that their places of attachment are also the places that Aboriginals loved--and lost? And are the sites of all our deep affections to be contested, articulated, shared, foregone or possessed absolutely? ... Read more

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Feeling Australian Now
This book axamines the position of non-indigenous Australians who are sensitive to the great injustices done to Aboriginal people by the European "invaders", but who love the land of their birth and want to belong to it in a way which is both meaningful and yet sensitive to Aboriginal culture.

No doubt some of this could also apply to other countries such as New Zealand, USA, Canada, etc.

Read's style is very contemporary, and he uses extensively the thoughts and experiences of a wide variety of today's Australians, both indigenous and non-indigenous.

A very readable and thought provoking book. ... Read more

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This book celebrates the work of archaeologist Isabel McBryde. Her long-term contributions to the understanding of Indigenous culture and heritage in Australia are explored in this collection of valuable new cross-disciplinary studies by leaders in the fields of archaeology, history, heritage management, linguistics and anthropology.Contributors include Robyne Bancroft, Phil Boot, Sandra Bowdler, Helen Brayshaw, Denis Byrne, Ann Curthoys, Iain Davidson, Jack Golson, Luise Hercus, Peter Hiscock, Dave Johnston, Rhys Jones, Roy Kennedy, Judith Littleton, Betty Meehan, John Mulvaney, Ken Mulvaney, Winifred Mumford, Mary Pappin, Michael Pearson, Peter Read, Andrée Rosenfeld, Jim Specht, Sharon Sullivan, Barbara Tjikatu, Robin Torrence, Marilyn Truscott, Sean Ulm. ... Read more