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Category: aboriginees
30/06/10
23:22:03, by Lorenz 
. Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, Pacific Oceania, aboriginees, migration, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, history, cosmopolitanism - Highlight the connections between people!
It happened already around 200 years ago: Aboriginal Australians marry Indians. Afghan cameleers open up the interior of Australia for transport and development. Indian seamen fight for Indonesian independence. And long before Australia was colonised by… more »
18/05/08
"Dreamtime" no longer an acceptable term
The West Australian and South Australian education departments have made lists of appropriate and inappropriate words to describe Aboriginal people and culture, The Australian reports.- Dreamtime is no longer an acceptable term to describe the collec… more »
28/02/07
12:36:22, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, aboriginees, fieldwork / methods, music "A new approach to the collection of traditional Aboriginal music"
The days of anthropologists taking recordings away to Canberra where they might as well be lost to the community forever, are now gone according to ABC Radio (Australia) in a story about the National Recording Project. Its aim is to document the traditio… more »
13/07/06
11:47:09, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, aboriginees, books, persons and theories A link between food resources and social hierarchies?
In a portrait on the website of The National University of Australia, anthropologist Ian Keen, tells about his research among Aboriginees in Australia. Among other things, he wanted to find out why pre-colonial Aboriginal societies tended to be more egal… more »
26/06/06
22:26:24, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, aboriginees, anthropology (general), maori Indigenous? Non-Western? Primitive? The Paris Museum Controversy
Musee Quai Branly, a new major museum in Paris, dedicated entirely to well, how should it be called "non-Western arts"?, "indigenous arts?" has opened last Friday. Although the organizers named the new museum in Paris after the street it was built on aft… more »
06/06/06
02:33:56, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, aboriginees Aboriginees in Australia: Why talking about culture?
In the Australian magazine On Line Opinion, Anthropologist John Morton criticizes public views of Aboriginess in Australia and argues for avoiding the term culture:
Ever since Europeans first came to Australia, public views of Aborigines have veered b… more »
15/03/06
16:17:52, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, technology, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, aboriginees How to survive in a desert? On Aboriginals' knowledge of the groundwater system
Indigenous Australians dug underground water reservoirs that helped them live on one of the world's driest continents for tens of thousands of years, new research by hydrogeologist Brad Moggridge shows, according to ABC News. The study indicates Aborigi… more »
27/02/06
Explores how indigenous peoples interprete Christianity
Carolyn Schwarz spent 17 months in the most remote part of northern Australia to conduct field work for her dissertation on how Christianity and Western religious systems either came together or conflicted with one another. "There hadn’t been much work o… more »
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