scholarly journals Cultural Capacity and Development; the case for flexible, interdisciplinary research in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities

2016 ◽  
pp. 48-65
Author(s):  
Sam Osborne ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Torres Strait Island ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
Torres Strait

A Personal Philosophy Concerning Torres Strait Island Community Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
M. Bond
Keyword(s):  
Community Education ◽  
Or Education ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Torres Strait Island ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
Island Community ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
The One ◽  
Personal Philosophy

Bamaga stands on the tip of Cape York and adjacent to a number of Torres Strait Islands. Both Bamaga and the Islands are included in the one administrative region.Parents of students on the Torres Strait Island communities are still confused as to what schools or education are providing for their children. Parents have been desperately hoping that education would improve their ways of living as they were led to believe. As it now stands, more and more parents are becoming disillusioned after receiving evidence of the inadequacy of the Western education system for their culture and beliefs.

Anzac, Race and Empire

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Shanti Sumartojo ◽  
Ben Wellings
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Torres Strait Island ◽  
New Public ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
The Military

In 2015, a new memorial was unveiled in Sydney’s Hyde Park, the formal green rectangle in the city’s centre. In a creative and vibrant city like Sydney, the launch of a new public artwork was not remarkable, but this event differed because it was a new war memorial, and even more unusually, it commemorated the military service of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Australians. Designed by Indigenous artist Tony Albert, ...

Immunity to hepatitis B, poliomyelitis and measles in fully vaccinated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
JN HANNA ◽  
WL SEXTON ◽  
JL FAOAGALI ◽  
PJ BUDA ◽  
ML KENNETT ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Torres Strait Island ◽  
Torres Strait

The Great Kod of Pulu: Mutual Historical Emergence of Ceremonial Sites and Social Groups in Torres Strait, Northeast Australia

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian J. McNiven ◽  
Bruno David ◽  
Goemulgau Kod ◽  
Judith Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Structural Basis ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
The Status ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Torres Strait

Communal ceremonial sites and social groups often share mutually reinforcing and structuring properties. As a result of this dynamic relationship, ceremonial sites and social groups exhibit ever-emergent properties as long-term works-in-progress. Ceremonial kod sites featuring shrines of trumpet shells and dugong bones were central to the communal ritual life of Torres Strait Islanders. Continuously formed over the generations by ritual additions, these shrines were linked to ongoing maintenance, legitimization and cohesion of totemic clans and moieties that formed the structural basis of island communities. As such, understanding the history of kod sites provides an opportunity to investigate the historical emergence of ethnographically-known social groups in Torres Strait. This mutual emergence is investigated archaeologically at the kod on Pulu islet which is owned and operated by the Goemulgal people of nearby Mabuyag island. Multiple radiocarbon dates from shell and bone shrines and an underlying village midden indicate that the kod, and by association the Goemulgal and their totemic clan and moiety system, emerged over the past 400 years. Aided by local oral history and ethnography, it is argued further that establishment of the kod saw the status of Pulu change from a residential to a ceremonial and sacred place.

Who is an Aborigine?

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-58
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Torres Strait Island ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Aboriginal Groups ◽  
Aboriginal Person

The answer to the question above may seem obvious, but it often appears that there is misunderstanding among the community at large about who and what Aborigines are.The Federal Government sums up the answer this way:An Aboriginal person is one of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island descent who identifies as Aboriginal or Islander and is accepted as such by the community with which he or she is associated.While Aboriginal people often differ markedly in their outlook and values from non-Aboriginal people, it is not so well known that Aboriginal groups themselves vary in language, culture and social structure.These differences between Aboriginal people depend on their attachment to traditional cultural values, the degree to which they have adopted a European lifestyle and in the customs of differing regional groups.Whatever their background. Aboriginal people have a strong sense of identity and pride in being Aboriginal.

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