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Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlan…
Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state re…
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Songs of the Empty Place: The Memorial Poetry of the Foi of the Southern High…
For 31 months between 1979 and 1995, James F. Weiner conducted anthropological research amongst the Foi people in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. This book contains the transcriptions, translations, and descriptions of the songs he recorded. The texts of women’s sago songs (obedobora), men’s ceremonial songs (sorohabora), and women’s sorohabora are included. Men turn the pr…
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- 9781925022230
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The Rahui: Legal pluralism in Polynesian traditional management of resources …
This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature on Oceanian anthropology, the rahui is quite absent from secondary modern literature. This situation is all the more problematic because individual actors, societies, and stat…
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- 9781925022919
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Tranformations of Gender in Melanesia
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners? This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also…
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Ngapartji Ngapartji: In turn, in turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Au…
In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe reflect on how their life histories have impacted on their research in Indigenous Australian Studies. Drawing on Pierre Nora’s concept of ego-histoire as an analytical tool to ask historians to apply their methods to themselves, contributors lay open their paths, personal commitments and passion in…
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- 9781925021738
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Indigenous Intermediaries: New perspectives on exploration archives
This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of exploration by focusing on the various indigenous intermediaries – Jacky Jacky, Bungaree, Moowattin, Tupaia, Mai, Cheealthluc and lesser-known individuals – who were the guide…
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- 9781925022773
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Indigenous and Minority Placenames: Australian and International Perspectives
This book showcases current research into Indigenous and minority placenames in Australia and internationally. Many of the chapters in this volume originated as papers at a Trends in Toponymy conference hosted by the University of Ballarat in 2007 that featured Australian and international speakers. The chapters in this volume provide insight into the quality of toponymic research that is being…
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In the Eye of the Beholder: What Six Nineteenth-century Women Tell Us About I…
This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishersâ€â€¦
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- 9781925021974
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In Defence of Country: Life Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander …
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been protecting country since time immemorial. One way they have continued these traditions in recent times is through service in the Australian military, both overseas and within Australia. In Defence of Country presents a selection of life stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ex-servicemen and women who served in the Australian Arm…
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- 9781925022803
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Enlaçando sexualidades, uma tessitura interdisciplinar no reino das sexualid…
O livro reúne textos que compõem a interdisciplinaridade dos estudos sobre sexualidade e gênero por meio da visão de pesquisadores de diversas áreas do conhecimento, que tratam de assuntos recorrentes da vida cotidiana analisados na perspectiva da educação e da sexualidade, da moralidade e outros temas que permeiam a temática da sexualidade e das relações de gênero
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