Aboriginal cultural heritage
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Recent papers in Aboriginal cultural heritage
The sites are rich in cultural history, but the blazes might also reveal some unknown ones, say archaeologists.
This report seeks to identify sites that illustrate the nationally significant history of Aboriginal segregation and assimilation in Australia. Government policies of segregation and assimilation policies have had a profound and lasting... more
Photographs of Australian Aboriginal people are powerful objects. Produced from the 1840s, when the camera first arrived in the continent’s nascent white settlements, such images are now invested with new meanings, becoming a rich... more
This thesis examines the performance of people–place relationships on the Lurujarri Dreaming Trail, an ancestral dreaming track in north-western Western Australia. Storytelling and ethnographic practices are employed to explore the agency... more
Signalling hills are important features in the cultural landscape of Aboriginal Australia. This brief report considers the complexity of Aboriginal smoke-signalling communication and the apparent use of smoke-signalling hills in... more
Review essay on Aboriginal contemporary artist Nicole Foreshew's installation work 'born in darkness before dawn'. The essay uses the art work to explore the ways Aboriginal artists, culture and presence are radically changing mainstream... more
Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatriation, and cross-cultural community engagement in a dynamic Koori museum. Grounded in the fact that Gunai Kurnai... more
Volume 3 explains the approach to Aboriginal heritage for the Hoddle Grid Heritage Review (City of Melbourne). It explores the concept of shared heritage, the scope of contemporary Aboriginal heritage and the policy context. It describes... more
Notes and recordings collected during my stay in Taiwan in 2017 became the main source for deeper analysis, the purpose of which was to recognize the symbolism of the figure of dancing in circle during the Harvest Festival celebrated at... more
Australia’s mining boom of recent years has spawned a surge in unmet demand for archaeologists, according to Flinders lecturer and Chair of the Australian Archaeological Association’s 2009 Conference, Dr Alice Gorman.
Review of the Australian Institute of Torres Strait Islander Studies Amendment Bill 2015 (the Bill), which amends the Australian Institute of Torres Strait Islander Studies Act 1989 (the Act) to: • change the functions and purpose of the... more
Western Australia's rich Aboriginal heritage is threatened by proposed legal changes.
A short synthesis of the research carried out by the Italian Archaeological Mission on the Rohri Hills, in the framework of the old discoveries made in the region
... We question whether what might be needed is a greater tangible 5 Kelly Wiltshire, В Arch (Hon), Flinders University The research foi this article was conducted as part of a Bachelor of Archaeology Honours thesis at Flinders University... more
Reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia is defined officially as consisting of 'two-way relationships built on trust and respect', recognition and acceptance of rights, histories and cultures, and... more
The Aboriginal Community Heritage Investigations Program (ACHIP) had its genesis in a Joint Communique released by ATSIC and the Victorian Government in 2000. The Communique announced a pilot project to enable Aboriginal communities to... more