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Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Centrury Aboriginal Family
Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem’. It gives life to those …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781921666216
- Collation
- 226
- Series Title
- Aboriginal History Monograph, 20
- Call Number
- 927 BRI r
Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature: Content and form
This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria’s third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era. The creative writing of this period reflects new sensibilities and anxieties about Nigeria’s changing fortunes in the post-colonial era. Th…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781032268422, 9781032268439
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 909 OGE n
Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020,…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760464875, 9781760464868
- Collation
- 614
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 930.1 UNC u
Trajectories of Memory: Excavating the Past in Indonesia
This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The sec…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789819919956, 9789819919949
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- 316
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 907.2 TRA t
Beyond Waters: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Amazonian Inland
This book is one of the outcomes of the project Cultivated Wilderness: Socio-economic development and environmental change in pre-Columbian Amazonia (http://www.cultivated-wilderness.org/). The project has particularly focused on the previously relatively unknown prehistory of the Amazonian hinterland. Our work has revealed that pre-Columbian settlements in the Santarém region in the State of …
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789185245607, 9789185245666
- Collation
- 129
- Series Title
- GOTARC series A, 6
- Call Number
- 930.1 BEY b
Mystifying the Monarch: Studies on Discourse, Power, and History
The history of kings and queens has always appealed to popular imagery. Monarchy is also a central theme to classic surveys of political history. The present volume approaches the relation between imagery and authority of the monarchy from a cultural historical angle. The authors focus on the different discourses produced since the Middle Ages aiming at the symbolic construction of royal power …
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- Ed. 1
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- -
- Collation
- 296
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 MYS s
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries: Ethiopian Nation-Building and t…
Seven Ethiopian heritage sites were among the first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List – a stunning number for an African country at the time and the product of extended international technical assistance and tourism planning. This book unpacks the beginnings of World Heritage in development thinking and the significance of national heritage for developing countries in a global context d…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- 204
- Series Title
- Africa in Global History, 1
- Call Number
- 909.82 HUB d
Common Dwelling Place of all the Gods ; Commagene in its Local, Regional and …
The history and archaeology of Hellenistic Commagene is a rich field of study, not in the least because of the remarkable monuments and inscriptions of king Antiochos I (c. 70–36 BC). Over the last decades important new work has been done on Commagene proper, providing novel interpretations of the epigraphical and historical record or the archaeological data and individual sites, like Nemrud …
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- -
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- 9783515129268
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900
Himalayan Nature and Tibetan Buddhist Culture in Arunachal Pradesh, India A …
This is the first book to systematically describe the formation and historical changes of the Monpa people’s area (Monyul) through its nature, society, culture, religion, agriculture and historically deep ties with Bhutan, Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhist faith. The state of Arunachal Pradesh is located in the northeastern part of India, surrounded by the borders of Assam, Bhutan, and Tibet (Ch…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-4-431-55491-2
- Collation
- XIV, 196
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 910
Henbury Craters and Meteorites Their Discovery, History and Study
In 1931, the cluster of craters at Henbury Cattle Station south of Alice Springs in Central Australia was one of the first places on Earth where a group of impact structures could definitely be linked to the fall of iron meteorites. It was also the first place where radial rays and loops of ejected rock material, comparable to those seen around craters on the Moon, were observed. As such it was…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-03954-1
- Collation
- XIII, 160
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900
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