Cultural Encounters and Emergent Cultures in Australia: Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories: Newly Recorded Stories from the Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia . Kerry Brown, Sima Sharma. ; Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia . Victoria Katherine Burbank. ; A Place for Strangers: Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being . Tony Swain.

1995 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Povinelli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Aboriginal Australia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Elders

Learning from Anangu Histories: Population Centralisation and Decentralisation Influences and the Provision of Schooling in Tri-state Remote Communities

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Remote Region ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Region ◽  
Central Australia

Remote Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander schools and communities are diverse and complex sites shaped by contrasting geographies, languages, histories and cultures, including historical and ongoing relationships with colonialism, and connected yet contextually unique epistemologies, ontologies and cosmologies.This paper explores the history of Anangu (Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra) populations, including the establishment of incorporated communities and schools across the tri-state remote region of central Australia. This study will show that Anangu have a relatively recent contact history with Europeans and Anangu experiences of engagement with colonisation and schooling are diverse and complex.By describing historical patterns of population centralisation and decentralisation, I argue that schooling and broader education policies need to be contextually responsive to Anangu histories, values, ontologies and epistemologies in order to produce an education approach that resists colonialist social models and assumptions and instead, works more effectively towards a broader aim of social justice. Through assisting educators and policy makers to acquire a clearer understanding of Anangu histories, capacities and struggle, I hope to inform a more nuanced, contextually responsive and socially-just consideration of the provision of Western education in the tri-state region.

Mission Tracks in the Bush

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
Gemma Tulud Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
History Of

Christian missionaries played an important role in the Australian nation building that started in the nineteenth century. This essay explores the multifaceted and complex cultural encounters in the context of two aboriginal missions in Australia in the nineteenth century. More specifically, the essay explores the New Norcia mission in Western Australia in 1846-1900 and the Lutheran mission in South Australia in 1838-1853. The essay begins with an overview of the history of the two missions followed by a discussion of the key faces of the cultural encounters that occurred in the course of the missions. This is followed by theological reflections on the encounters in dialogue with contemporary theology, particularly the works of Robert Schreiter.

The Historical Context of Developing an Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Service: A Social History of the First Ten Years of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-143
Author(s):  
Clive Rosewarne ◽  
Petronella Vaarzon-Morel ◽  
Stephanie Bell ◽  
Elizabeth Carter ◽  
Margaret Liddle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Social History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
History Of

“Filipinos are the Dandies of the Foreign Colonies”: Race, Labor Struggles, and the Transpacific Routes of Hollywood and Philippine Films, 1924–1948

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-403
Author(s):  
Denise Khor
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Movie Theaters ◽  
Japanese Immigrants ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western City ◽  
Urban Leisure ◽  
The U.S

In the 1930s and 1940s Filipino laborers, many of whom were en route to agricultural hubs on the Pacific Coast, packed into movie theaters owned by Japanese immigrants to view Hollywood and Philippine-produced films. These cultural encounters formed an urban public sphere that connected both sides of the Pacific. Filipino patrons remade their public identities and communities through their consumption of film and urban leisure in the western city. This article traces this localized history of spectatorship and exhibition in order to reconsider prevailing understandings of the history of the U.S. West and the rise of cinema and mass commercial culture in the early twentieth century.

Sustainable governance for small desert settlements: learning from the multi-settlement regionalism of Anmatjere Community Government Council

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Sanders ◽  
Sarah Holcombe
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Basic Desert ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
The Many ◽  
Governance Arrangements

In light of some basic desert demography, this paper examines governance patterns for small desert settlements. It traces policy histories which led to the emergence of highly localised, single settlement governance arrangements during the 1970s and ’80s. It also identifies the many pushes since within the Northern Territory local government system for more regional, multi-settlement governance structures. The paper goes on to examine the history of one such regional, multi-settlement arrangement in central Australia, the Anmatjere Community Government Council established in 1993. The paper details our work with this Council over the last 4 years on ‘issues of importance or concern’ to them. The paper aims to learn from the ACGC experience in order to inform the more radical restructuring of Northern Territory local government currently underway towards larger multi-settlement regionalism. It concludes with four specific lessons, the most important of which is that regionalism must build on single settlement localism.

Namatjira, Albert (Elea) (1902–1959)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian McLean
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Art ◽  
Modern Landscape ◽  
Professional Artist ◽  
As If

Albert Namatjira was the leading artist of the modern Aboriginal watercolor art movement at the Hermannsburg (Ntaria) Lutheran mission in Central Australia. He was the first Aborigine to be recognized as a professional artist, to make a good living from his art, and gain national acclaim. The turning point in his life occurred in 1934, when two visiting landscape artists, Rex Battarbee and John Gardiner, exhibited paintings of the local scenery at the mission. Already a talented craftsman with a reputation at the mission for his artefacts and poker-worked designs, Namatjira was inspired by the exhibition to learn to paint his totemic landscape of the MacDonnell Ranges of Central Australia in the same modern landscape style. Namatjira’s paintings had a huge impact on the Western Arrernte, as well as on other Aboriginal artists and the wider Australian public. In depicting local ancestral sites in the pictorial language of Biblical illustrations, Namatjira’s paintings are a visual parallel to the Arrernte Bible, effectively translating their ancestral histories into a modern idiom. To this day, the Western Arrernte consider Namatjira’s style as their own, as if it embodies their collective identity and history of the place. His success is considered a milestone in Australian art and the beginning of the modern Aboriginal art movement.

scholarly journals Negotiating Hinduism in East Africa, 1860-1960

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gijsbert Oonk
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Food Habits ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hindu Community

This paper describes how Hindus in East Africa developed from ‘South Asians in Africa’ to ‘Asian Africans’ between 1880-1960. It shows how the Hindu community in East Africa realised their own geographical spaces and areas of interaction. The various cultural encounters of Hindus traders and businessmen with African, Arab and European communities may have been economically profitable, but they harmed cultural pillars of Hindu identity, like notions of caste, purity, food habits and marriage patterns. Obviously, this was not a harmonious process, but one with conflicts in which painful decisions had to be made and legitimised. For others, however, it was an opportunity to free themselves from the burden of religious patronage. The research is based on the history of more than twenty Hindu Lohana families who have lived in East Africa for three generations or more.

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