https://hdl.handle.net/2123/1091 2026-06-13T15:10:07Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28834 Not just a bark Poll, Matt Through the course of the 20th century, generations of Yolŋu faced the encroachment of globalisation. One arena in which this occurred was the visual arts, particularly with the establishment of the Yirrkala mission in 1935. Visual art – paintings, crafts and artefacts made with distinctive aesthetic knowledge and sometimes modified to meet perceived foreign tastes – was produced commercially: organised through the Methodist Overseas Mission and marketed to charitable and commercial enterprises in the urban centres, particularly to those of of south-eastern Australia. Into this setting arrived anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt in 1946, basing themselves at Yirrkala to document and record aspects of Yolŋu life that encompassed the painting, ceremonial and public performances and songs of Yolŋu philosophy. The Berndts had been educated by, and were funded through, Australia’s first department of anthropology, founded at the University of Sydney in 1925. Thanks to money provided through the Australian National Research Council, grants were awarded to students to undertake ethnographic fieldwork and collect physical examples of daily life – another arena in which the global interconnections and soft diplomacy of post-war Australia reached the shores of the Yolŋu world. In the Berndts’ case, their grant was directed to investigating labour conditions, diet, education, and the occupational training provided by the missions, though ultimately they were more interested in people’s religion and art. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24972 To Reason Why: From Religion to Philosophy and Beyond Burnheim, John To reason why explains the arguments and aspirations that guided a professional thinker's choices on the key issues that have affected both theory and practice for believers and unbelievers of many. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24971 Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork (front matter) Barwick, Linda; Thieberger, Nicholas Academic fieldwork data collections are often unique and unrepeatable records of highly significant events collected at considerable expense of researcher time, effort and resources. While fieldworkers have been quick to take advantage of digital technologies to enable them to collect and organise their data, standards and workflows are only now beginning to emerge to assist researchers to submit their data for archiving and access. This collection of refereed papers from the conference of the same name held at the University of Sydney in December 2006 provides a record of recent research practice by fieldworkers in linguistics, botany and anthropology, and by archive and repository managers. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23693 Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early Medieval Celtic World [front matter] Wooding, Jonathan 'Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World' brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture and history of Celtic-speaking nations. Non-narrative sources and cross-disciplinary approaches shed new light on traditional questions concerning commemoration, sources of political authority, and the nature of religious identity. Leading scholars and early-career researchers bring to bear hermeneutics from studies of religion and literary criticism alongside more traditional philological and historical methodologies. All the studies in this book bring to their particular tasks an acknowledgement of the importance of religion in the worldview of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Their approaches reflect a critical turn in Celtic studies that has proved immensely productive across the last two decades. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23694 Armes Prydein as a Legacy of Gildas Olson, Lynette Roughly four centuries separate Gildas’ De excidio Britanniae (‘On the Downfall of Britain’) and Armes Prydein (‘The Prophecy of Britain’). This is not to say that tenth-century people couldn’t understand what Gildas was about. No one does it better than Wulfstan, when he writes in Sermo lupi ad Anglos (‘Sermon of the Wolf to the English’): 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23691 Grieg in the henhouse: 12 seconds at the contested intersections of human and nonhuman animal interests Fryer, Daniel Lees Opening shot: interior, henhouse, low light, hens, two rows of perches and nest boxes. Voiceover, subtitle: ‘That’s why we play music’. Close-up of human hand flicking switch and turning dial on old radio. Cue music: Edvard Grieg’s ‘Morning Mood’. Close-up of hens. Wider frame, man walks slowly between perches and nest boxes. Voiceover, subtitle: ‘They become calm. They enjoy themselves.’ Close-up of single hen shaking feathers. Low-angle shot, hens, man by open door, daylight. Man speaks, subtitle: ‘Ba-pa-pa-pa!’ Fade to black. Caption, white on black, top of frame: ‘GOOD TASTE WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE.’ [Producer name], white on black, middle. Green logo, ‘organic’, lower right. Ends. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23692 Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics [front matter] Dalziell, Tanya Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics is an accessible guide to the writings of Gail Jones, the award-winning Australian author, essayist and academic. Drawing together ideas from literature, art, philosophy and photography, the volume presents a compelling analysis of Jones’ literary commitment to the political and the personal, and reflects on how and why we interpret literary texts. An essential contribution to the intersecting fields of Australian studies and international literature, Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics offers innovative insights into the writing of one of Australia’s most accomplished authors. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23690 Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial [Front Matter] Hannan, Jason The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny. To that end, it uses a distinct set of rhetorical strategies to deflect criticism. These tactics are fundamental to modern animal agriculture but have long evaded critical analysis. In this collection, academic and activist contributors investigate the many forms of denialism perpetuated by the animal agriculture industry. What strategies does the industry use to avoid questions about its inhumane treatment of animals and its impact on the environment and public health? What narratives, myths and fantasies does it promote to sustain its image in the public imagination? 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23274 Gardens of History and Imagination: Growing New South Wales [front matter] Poiner, Gretchen; Jack, Sybil Whether on the ground or in the mind gardens carry meaning. They reflect social and aesthetic values and may express hope, anticipation or grief. Throughout history they have provided a means of physical survival. In creating and maintaining gardens people construe and construct a relationship with their environment. But there is no single meaning carried in the word ‘garden’: as idea and practice it reflects cultural differences in beliefs, values and social organisation. It embodies personal, community even national ways of seeing and being in the world. There are ten essays in this book, each of which examines the role of gardens and gardening in the settlement of New South Wales and in growing a colony and a state. They explore the significance of gardens for the health of the colony, for its economy, for the construction of social order and for personal identity. For the immigrants gardening was an act of settlement and also a statement of possession. For a long time it was with memories of ‘home’, often selective and idealised, that settlers made gardens but as the colony developed its own character so did gardening possibilities and practices. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23275 Gardens, landscapes, wilderness: ways of seeing ourselves Macdonald, Gaynor In 1992 I was travelling with Japanese university students through western New South Wales, heading for Alice Springs. The houses, street lights and electricity poles were far behind and the only sign of human presence was the bitumen road, stretching as far as the eye could see. One young woman confided she was getting frightened at the emptiness. I realised she might become more so when we reached the inland with its vast expanses of red sand stretching to the horizon. I sat with her, explaining how Aboriginal people would see this landscape. For them it could not be uninhabited, wild or remote. They were connected to every tree and hill, brought into being by the same spirits who brought them into being. What looked alienating to her was intimate to them, albeit a different intimacy from that of a Japanese garden. By the time we reached the desert she could celebrate seeing a landscape through a different cultural lens. I found myself asking questions about these differences. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22960 Linguistic Nationalism and Its Discontents: Chinese Latinisation and Its Practice of Equality Wong, Lorraine The perceived inherent tie between an individual, a nation and a language is central to linguistic nationalism, which began to appear in Europe during the 19th century and came to define the norm of political life in the 20th century and beyond. Critics of linguistic nationalism (Hugh Seton-Watson, Eric Hobsbawm and Benedict Anderson) examine the emergence of “national language” as a top-down diffusion of elite cultural influence, or as an imagination of a unitary community. This chapter picks up where these critiques leave off by exploring the simultaneous rise of linguistic nationalism and communism in modern China. During the interwar years, Chinese Communists brought in the Soviet Union’s campaign of anti-illiteracy and sought to replace Chinese characters with the Latin alphabet. This Latinizing campaign quickly won the support of left-wing intellectuals, within and outside the Chinese Communist Party, who agitated for the right to literacy of the uneducated commoners, as well as for their right to access the national language and literature. This chapter discusses the political agenda and linguistic features of Latinized Chinese, examining how the Latinizing campaign questions linguistic nationalism by negotiating ‘national language’ in the contested ground of history. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22961 Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity, 1784–1935 [front matter] Christie, William; Dunstan, Angela; Tong, Q. S. In the 18th and 19th centuries, relations between China and the West were defined by the Qing dynasty’s strict restrictions on foreign access and by the West’s imperial ambitions. Cultural, political and economic interactions were often fraught, with suspicion and misunderstanding on both sides. Yet trade flourished and there were instances of cultural exchange and friendship, running counter to the official narrative. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22959 Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity, 1784–1935 [front matter] Christie, William; Dunstan, Angela; Tong, Q. S. In the 18th and 19th centuries, relations between China and the West were defined by the Qing dynasty’s strict restrictions on foreign access and by the West’s imperial ambitions. Cultural, political and economic interactions were often fraught, with suspicion and misunderstanding on both sides. Yet trade flourished and there were instances of cultural exchange and friendship, running counter to the official narrative. <i>Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity</i> explores encounters between China and the West during this period and beyond, into the early 20th century, through examples drawn from art, literature, science, politics, music, cooking, clothing and more. How did China and the West see each other, how did they influence each other, and what were the lasting legacies of this contact? 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22863 Gerald Murnane: Another World in this One Uhlmann, Anthony Front matter only. 'Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One' coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane’s diverse body of work. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22864 Gerald Murnane's plain style Byron, Mark The role of grasslands in Gerald Murnane’s fiction is as sustained and pronounced as his self-stated aversion to the coast and the ocean,2 and his uneasy forbearance of mountain ranges. Murnane’s narrative devotion to steppe-like ecologies provokes the question of style and how his narrative strategies might operate dialectically with his chosen geography. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20366 One Planet, One Health Walton, Merrilyn 'One Planet, One Health' provides a multidisciplinary reflection on the state of our planet, human and animal health, as well as the critical effects of climate change on the environment and livelihoods of people. Climate change is already affecting many poor communities and traditional aid programs have achieved relatively small gains. Going beyond the narrow disciplinary lens and an exclusive focus on human health,a planetary health approach puts the ecosystem at the centre. With experience in eco-health methods, the contributors to 'One Planet, One Health' postulate that the maintenance and restoration of ecosystem resilience should be a core priority, carried out in partnership with local communities. 'One Planet, One Health' offers an integrated approach to improving the health of the planet and its inhabitants. With chapters on ethics, research and governance, as well as case studies of government and international aid-agency responses to illustrate successes and failures, the book aims to help scholars, governments and non-governmental organisations understand the benefits of focusing on the interdependence of human and animal health, food, water security and land care. 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20376 Walakandha Wangga Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, Lysbeth For the last 40 years or so, the Walakandha wangga, a repertory composed collaboratively by a number of Marri Tjavin singers, has been the most prominent wangga performed in Wadeye. Initiated in the mid-1960s by Stan Mullumbuk (1937–1980), the Walakandha wangga repertory came to function as one arm of a tripartite ceremonial system organising ceremonial life at Wadeye, in complementary relationship with sister repertories djanba and lirrga. The dominant themes of the Walakandha wangga are related to the activities of the Marri Tjavin ancestral dead – the Walakandha – as givers of wangga songs and protectors of their living descendants. Longing for return to Marri Tjavin ancestral country is another common theme. Many specific places are named. Foremost among these is the hill Yendili – one of the places where Walakandha ancestors reside. 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20375 Ma-Yawa Wangga Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, Lysbeth The Ma-yawa wangga repertory was given to songmen by the Marri Ammu ancestral ghosts known as Ma-yawa. Before the late 1960s, it seems that this repertory was frequently performed at Wadeye, but nowadays Marri Ammu people join their Marri Tjavin neighbours in performing the Walakandha wangga repertory for ceremony. All but one of the Ma-yawa wangga songs were composed by the senior Marri Ammu lawman and artist Charlie Niwilhi Brinken (c. 1910–1993), but so far as we know, no recording was ever made of him singing. Maurice Tjakurl Ngulkur (Nyilco) (1940–2001), the Marri Ammu songman, inherited the repertory and added one of his own songs to it. Since his passing in 2001, the songs have rarely been performed. With its strong focus on the Dreamings (ngirrwat) and Dreaming sites (kigatiya) of the Marri Ammu people, the Ma-yawa wangga repertory holds a unique place within the corpus. 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20380 Baartjap's Wangga Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, Lysbeth From the 1950s to the 1980s, Barrtjap (Tommy Burrenjuck, c. 1925–1992) was a ritual leader and one of the most prominent singers/composers in Belyuen (Delissaville), one of the heartlands of the wangga tradition. The community’s proximity to Darwin in the Northern Territory meant that Barrtjap and his songs were heard and recorded by many visitors and tourists. Characterised by great musical inventiveness and precision of form, Barrtjap’s songs mixed his ancestral language, Batjamalh, with the utterances of the song-giving ghosts who visited him in a dream. The CD includes recordings of Barrtjap’?s repertory made by Alice Moyle, Allan Marett and other visitors to Belyuen. Barrtjap’s wife, the late Esther Burrenjuck, collaborated closely in the documentation work on Barrtjap’s repertoire, and his sons Kenny Burrenjuck (d. 2010) and Timothy Burrenjuck have carried on his songs and his legacy into the present day. 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20379 Muluk's Wangga Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, Lysbeth Jimmy Muluk (born c. 1925, died sometime before 1986) was one of the great wangga songmen, whose musical virtuosity and love of diversity and variation are exceeded by no other singer. A Mendheyangal man, he held traditional country around the Cape Ford area south of the Daly River mouth, but he lived most of his life in and around Belyuen on the Cox Peninsula. For many years he led a dance troupe presenting performances for tourists at Mica Beach, and later at Mandorah. He also mentored younger generations of singers to perform with him in public at tourist corroborees and the Darwin Eisteddfod. The success of his strategy for intergenerational transmission of knowledge was evident when Marett and Barwick recorded the same singers, now men, in the 1990s. Muluk’s mentee, Colin Worumbu Ferguson, leads the Kenbi dancers today. 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20378 Mandji's Wangga Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, Lysbeth Billy Mandji was a prolific and popular Belyuen songman. Active from the 1960s to the 1980s, he travelled widely and was recorded in Kununurra, Timber Creek, Oenpelli and Beswick Creek as well as his home community of Belyuen (Delissaville). He was a prominent participant in the tourist corroborees presented by people from Belyuen in various locations around Darwin and the Cox Peninsula. In addition to composing songs of his own, Billy Mandji inherited songs in Emmi-Mendhe from the Emmiyangal people with whom he lived at Belyuen, and he also sang the Emmi-Mendhe songs of Jimmy Muluk (see Muluk’s Wangga), often in the role of backup singer. His own language, Marri Tjavin, appeared rarely in his songs, and many of Mandji’s songs are composed in untranslatable ‘ghost language’. Although Allan Marett recorded Mandji’s songs in 1988, he was never able to work with him on documenting his songs, so the translations and interpretations are the result of working with other speakers, especially his extremely knowledgeable ‘daughter’ (brother’s daughter), Marjorie Knuckey Bilbil. 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20377 Lambudju's Wangga Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, Lysbeth Bobby Lane Lambudju (1941–1993) was a leading Wadjiginy songman at Belyuen in the late 1980s and early 1990s whose songs display a rich variety of forms, diverse melodies and even mixes of languages (his own language, Batjamalh, as well as Emmi-Mendhe, the language of his adoptive family). Three of Lambudju’s father’s brothers were prominent Wadjiginy songmen who died before he was old enough to learn from them. Their songs were held in trust for him by the Emmiyangal singer Nym Mun.gi, who passed them on to Lambudju when he was old enough. Many of Lambudju’s songs concern his country to the north of the Daly River and in particular Rak Badjalarr (North Peron Island), the place to which people from Belyuen return after their death. 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20300 Game Drives of the Aralo-Caspian Region Yagodin, Vadim N.; van Pelt, Paul; Betts, Alison Game drives of the Aralo-Caspian region is a translated and revised edition of Yagodin’s Strelovidnye Planirovki Ustyurta, originally published in Tashkent in 1991. Based on extensive fieldwork, the volume investigates arrow-shaped structures used for hunting in remote areas of Central Asia between the seventh and 14th centuries AD. This classic study of game drives remains one of the most significant works in Ustyurt archaeology and one of the few that integrates geoarchaeological, ecological and ethnographic data. This first English edition of Game drives of the Aralo-Caspian region has been amended with new material, including the study of satellite imagery, and enriched with many new illustrations. 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20290 The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne: A Historical Archaeology Murray, Tim For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Melbourne’s Little Lonsdale Street – locally known as ‘Little Lon’ – was notorious as a foul slum and brothel district, occupied by the itinerant and the criminal. The stereotype of ‘slumdom’ defined ‘Little Lon’ in the minds of Melbournians, and became entrenched in Australian literature and popular culture. 'The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne' tells a different story. This groundbreaking book reports on almost three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonwealth Block – the area of central Melbourne bordered by Little Lonsdale, Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring streets. Since the 1980s, archaeologists and historians have pieced together the rich and complex history of this area, revealing a working-class and immigrant community that was much more than just a slum. The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne delves into the complex social, cultural and economic history of this forgotten community. 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20162 Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty's Enigmatic Voyage (front matter) Frost, Alan In 1789, as the Bounty made its return voyage through the western Pacific Ocean, disgruntled crewmen seized control from their captain, William Bligh. The mutineers set Bligh and the eighteen men who remained loyal to him adrift in one of the ship’s boats, with minimal food and only four cutlasses for weapons. In the two centuries since, the mutiny and its aftermath have become the stuff of legend. Millions of words have been written about it; it has been the subject of novels, plays, feature films and documentaries. The story’s two protagonists – Bligh and his mutinous deputy, Fletcher Christian – are cast as villain and hero, but which is which depends on which account you read. In 'Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology', Alan Frost looks past these inherited narratives to shed new light on the infamous expedition and its significance. Returning to the very first accounts of the mutiny, he shows how gaps, misconceptions and hidden agendas crept into the historical record and have shaped it ever since. 2018-09-26T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20161 Flashy, Fun and Functional: How Things Helped to Invent Melbourne's Gold Rush Mayor (front matter) Hayes, Sarah Against the backdrop of embryonic Melbourne, John Thomas Smith left behind his currency roots to become an influential member of society. A widely recognised figure about town smoking a cutty pipe and wearing a white top hat, in 1851 he became Lord Mayor of Melbourne; he went on to be re-elected seven times. His scandalous marriage to the daughter of an Irish Catholic publican, however, and his awkwardly appropriated gentility made him unpopular with certain sections of society. He could never shake the shadow of his background and was dogged by ignominious rumours. From 1849 to 1860 Smith and his family occupied 300 Queen Street, Melbourne, one of the first true residential townhouses in the city. Flashy, Fun and Functional: How Things Helped to Invent Melbourne’s Gold Rush Mayor explores the things they left behind. Excavations at the site in 1982 by Judy Birmingham and Associates uncovered a rich and important archaeological record of the Smiths’ lives in the form of a cesspit rubbish deposit. The recovered artefacts can be used to examine the distinctive way the Smith family used material culture to negotiate their position in colonial society. Popular decoration styles and expensive materials suggest the family’s efforts to secure their newly obtained social status. The artefacts evoke the turmoil, volatility and opportunity of life in the first decades of the colony of Port Phillip. They provide an example of the possibility of social mobility in the colony, but also of the challenges of navigating the customs of a newly forming society. 2018-09-21T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20150 Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays (front matter) Dixon (ed.), Robert 'Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays' is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer new ways of understanding Flanagan’s contribution to Tasmanian, Australian and world literature. Flanagan’s fictional worlds offer empathetic, often poignant, renderings of those whose voices have been lost beneath official accounts of history, stories from a small region that have made their mark on a global scale. Considering his seven novels as well as his non-fiction, journalism and correspondence, this collection examines the historical and geographical factors that have shaped Flanagan’s representation of Tasmanian identity. Together they offer new insights into a determinedly regional writer, and the impact that he has had on a local, national and global scale. 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20151 Songs from the Stations: Wajarra as Performed by Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpnga, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal and Dandy Danbayarri at Kalkaringi (front matter and introduction) Turpin, Myfany; Meakins, Felicity; Croft, Brenda The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are best known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station in 1966, protesting against mistreatment by the station managers. The strike would become the first major victory of the Indigenous land rights movement. Many discussions of station life are focused on the harsh treatment of Aboriginal workers. 'Songs from the Stations' describes another side of life on Wave Hill Station. Among the harsh conditions and decades of mistreatment, an eclectic ceremonial life flourished during the first half of the 20th century. Constant travel between cattle stations by Aboriginal workers across north-western and central Australia meant that Wave Hill Station became a crossroad of desert and Top End musical styles. As a result, the Gurindji people learnt songs from the Mudburra who came further east, the Bilinarra from the north, Western Desert speakers from the west, and the Warlpiri from the south. This book is the first detailed documentation of wajarra, public songs performed by the Gurindji people. Featuring five song sets known as Laka, Mintiwarra, Kamul, Juntara, and Freedom Day, it is an exploration of the cultural exchange between Indigenous communities that was fostered by their involvement in the pastoral industry. 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20153 Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London (front matter) Simons, John 'Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London' is the story of Obaysch the hippopotamus, the first ‘star’ animal to be exhibited in the London Zoo. In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived on English shores, allegedly the first in Europe since the Roman Empire, and almost certainly the first in Europe since prehistoric times. Captured near an island from which he took his name, Obaysch was donated by the viceroy of Egypt in exchange for greyhounds and deerhounds. His arrival was greeted with a wave of ‘Hippomania’, doubling the number of visitors to the zoo. Uncovering the circumstances of Obaysch’s capture and exhibition, John Simons investigates the notion of a ‘star’ animal, as well as the cultural value that Obaysch, and the other hippos who joined him over the following few years, accumulated. This book also delves into the historical context of Obaysch and his audience, considering the relationship between Victorian attitudes to hippopotami and the expansion of the British Empire into sub-Saharan Africa. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20152 The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer (front matter) Keese, Oliné (Caroline Woolmer Leakey); Mead, Jenna Caroline Leakey, writing as Oliné Keese, published her first and only novel, 'The Broad Arrow', in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middle-class woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then wrongly convicted of infanticide. The novel’s title describes the arrow that was stamped onto government property, including the clothes worn by convicts—a symbol of shame and incarceration. With its ‘fallen woman’ protagonist, its gothic undertones and its exploration of the social and moral implications of the penal system, this little-known novel gives an insight into a significant chapter of Australian history from a uniquely female perspective. Published more than ten years before Marcus Clarke’s 'For the Term of His Natural Life' (1870), it is also a neglected part of Australian literary history. In this new critical edition, editor Jenna Mead restores material that was cut when the novel was reissued in a radically abridged version in 1886. This restored material is subtly highlighted, allowing interested readers to observe the extent and effect of the 1886 edits, without distracting from the story. It sheds light on the shifting tastes and priorities of the reading public and of publishers in the second half of the nineteenth century, while restoring for the first time in over a century the complete original text of Leakey’s important work. 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/20141 The Flight of Birds Lobb, Joshua The Flight of Birds is a novel in twelve stories, each of them compelled by an encounter between the human and animal worlds. The birds in these stories inhabit the same space as humans, but they are also apart, gliding above us. The Flight of Birds: A Novel in Twelve Stories explores what happens when the two worlds meet. Joshua Lobb’s stories are at once intimate and expansive, grounded in an exquisite sense of place. The birds in these stories are variously free and wild, native and exotic, friendly and hostile. Humans see some of them as pets, some of them as pests, and some of them as food. Through a series of encounters between birds and humans, the book unfolds as a meditation on grief and loss, isolation and depression, and the momentary connections that sustain us through them. Underpinning these interactions is an awareness of climate change, of the violence we do to the living beings around us, and of the possibility of transformation. The Flight of Birds will change how you think about the planet and humanity’s place in it. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18575 Front Matter Thomas, David C. The challenges, and rewards, of undertaking archaeological fieldwork in a country like Afghanistan have been numerous and need to be outlined to put the following research in context. The minaret and archaeological remains of Jām were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2002 as Afghanistan’s first World Heritage site. The World Heritage nomination concludes by hoping that the inscription of the site would result in the mobilisation of financial and technical support to assist with the conservation, presentation and development of the site, building the capacity of Afghan conservation and management expertise, and the development of a comprehensive management plan. 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18574 Appendices Thomas, David C. 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18570 The Ebb and Flow of the Ghūrid Empire - Appendix 09 Thomas, David C. XRF (X-ray fluorescence) is a non-destructive technique used to determine the chemical composition of materials by measuring the fluorescent X-ray emitted from a sample (Renfrew, C. & P. Bahn, 2001. Archaeology: theories, methods and practice. London: Thames & Hudson, 3rd edn, 360–1). The raw data in Appendix 9 were obtained in a study of samples’ fabrics and glazes, which I undertook in conjunction with Dr Mark Eccleston (La Trobe University). Cluster Analysis and Principal Components Analysis of these data produced Figures 5:73‒6, which illustrate which fabrics and glazes are most similar, and therefore most likely to have shared similar raw materials and, potentially, production centres. 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18571 The Ebb and Flow of the Ghūrid Empire - Appendix 07 Thomas, David C. Context is everything to an archaeologist, the key excavation details from which we tie all the data together to build a story. This appendix includes descriptive and interpretative information. It is sorted by Site and then Context Number. The appendix is an edited version of the excavation records of numerous excavators, most of whom did not speak English as their first language. I am grateful for their hard work and diligence during the 2003 and 2005 seasons. 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18568 The Ebb and Flow of the Ghūrid Empire - Appendix 14 Thomas, David C. Appendix 14 provides a brief description and other data about 708 of the ASAGE sites documented in the ten Study Areas. It does not provide specific latitude / longitude coordinates, so as not to facilitate looting of these sites, although the spatial data are available to bona fide researchers. Spreadsheet 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18310 Envisioning a professional identity: charting pathways through social work education in India Nadkarni, Vimla V.; Joseph, Sandra This paper presents an overview of social work as a profession in India, tracing its historical beginnings, philosophical base, dominant practice perspectives, its relevance in the country’s current socioeconomic and politicocultural context and its impact on emerging trends in global practice. It also aims to stimulate discussion on the possible ways through which Social Work education can make significant contributions in the wake of the changing trends in state responsibility towards the poor and marginalised and in doing so carve its professional identity in order to gain its rightful status in Indian society. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18294 Social work education as a catalyst for social change and social development: case study of a Master of Social Work Program in China Yuen-Tsang, Angelina W.K.; Ku, Ben H.B.; Wang, Sibin In response to the urgent need for professionally trained social workers to help in alleviating emerging social problems in China after the introduction of the market economy, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Peking University launched a Master of Social Work (China) Program for social work educators in 2000, with the aim of developing a critical mass of social work educators to take up the future leadership in developing social work and social work education in China. To date, seven cohorts of over 230 students consisting of social work educators, NGO and government officials have been admitted to the program, and graduates of the program are playing a pivotal role in spearheading the development of social work education and fostering social development through the process. In this paper, the authors will present the vision and mission of the Master of Social Work (MSW) Program, the teaching and learning strategies adopted, and the ways in which the program has facilitated social change and social development through its educational process. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18302 Social work education in the United States: beyond boundaries Shockley, Clara; Baskind, Frank R. Today in the United States of America, social work education at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels enjoys high demand, while continuously evolving in response to its environment and the changing context of professional practice. This chapter explores the salient features that propel American social work education towards excellence. These include the Council on Social Work Education’s Educational Philosophy and Educational Standards (EPAS); the credentials and scholarship of the faculty who craft the programs and curricula; accreditation standards that address global awareness; the values and ethics of the profession; and economic and social justice through a lens of cultural competency. Contemporary issues in American higher education also are identified to illustrate social work education’s responses to evolving trends in university teaching. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18314 Transnational social work: a new paradigm with perspectives Wallimann, Isidor In the course of its professionalisation, social work seems to have got trapped in national social policy frames while our world is increasingly marked by transnational processes. Due to its structural location within nation states, therefore, social work generally has its hands tied to adequately respond to ‘globalisation’, particularly in the almost total absence of transnational or world social policy frames. Given this situation, what can the profession do? This chapter explores how social work could experience a professional renaissance by explicitly reflecting its role and activities from a transnational perspective. First is explored what a transnational social work perspective is, and what it is not. Second, the possible locations are identified as to where transnational social work could already be practiced. Third, key knowledge dimension are identified for the entire social work field to move forward in adopting a transnational perspective in training, research, service delivery systems and practice. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18315 Towards identifying a philosophical basis of social work Noble, Carolyn; Henrickson, Mark Social work has absorbed and adapted major theories from related disciplines since its inception as an applied discipline over 100 years ago. These positions have been used to construct its ethical underpinnings and its epistemological standpoint. In this chapter we revisit this activity and address two questions: can we act as practitioners before we are fully cognisant of the ontological and philosophical position informing our practice? Is it possible to have a unitary, core ‘truth to act’ in light of the current globalisation of cultural norms, intercultural influences and challenges to intellectual traditions as being patriarchal, colonial and monocultural? Social workers must critically engage with philosophical and theoretical writings in order to understand the bases and implications of their practice decisions. Equally, however, a philosophy of social work must be dynamic, intersubjective and dialogic, and propose that we co-create theory, knowledge and praxis with our clients. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18301 Social work education in the United Kingdom Littlechild, Brian; Lyons, Karen This chapter examines key areas in social work education theory, practice, and research in the UK, including the main methods used and the client groups with whom social workers engage. The chapter sketches the origins and development of social work education and identifies key features currently framing social work education (SWE). The latter include factors associated with higher education systems and policies as well as those specific to social work in its organisational frameworks and as a profession. The staffing of social work programs and the role of research in relation to theory and practice development are discussed. A major section presents the predominant practice models, methods, theories and perspectives and their associated histories and epistemological challenges. Mention is made of contributing disciplines (e.g. sociology and law) and the key teaching and learning strategies utilised, including in relation to issues of cultural relativism and understanding, and international influences. Conclusions are drawn regarding the health of the discipline in the UK. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18293 Reflections of an activist social worker: challenging human rights violations Briskman, Linda Activism in social work can arise from practitioner wisdom that prompts action to respond to human rights violations. This paper offers reflections on the Eileen Younghusband keynote address in South Africa in 2008. I lament the lack of human rights advancement in subsequent years where infringements on the rights of many of the world’s most vulnerable people receive negative responses from governments and scant attention from professions. The paper calls for ascendancy of the active moral practitioner, born from outrage and a desire to combat racism, the marginalisation and demonisation of those ‘othered’ in dominant discourse. Social work values and principles provide leads. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18288 Social work education: current trends and future directions Sewpaul, Vishanthie This chapter deals with changing patterns of social work education in a rapidly globalising world. Neoliberalism and advances in information technology are creating spaces for cross-border, virtual education as never before. The chapter interrogates the impact of neocolonial, capitalist expansion of higher education as a tradable commodity, and reviews some of the debates around the universal and the particular with regard to cross border virtual education. The universal-particular debate is further probed by reviewing global initiatives of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), such as the Global Definition, program consultations linked to the Global Standards, and the proposal to form regional centres of excellence. While well-intentioned, neither the processes nor the outcomes of these initiatives are neutral, often reflecting geo-political power, the project of legitimation, hegemonic discourses and neoliberal and new managerialist thrusts towards standard setting, performance appraisals and external reviews within modernist notions of progress and development. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18306 Social work education in the Caribbean: charting pathways to growth and globalisation Rock, Letnie; Buchanan, Cerita Professional social work education began in the English-speaking Caribbean in 1961. Over time there has been a gradual development of undergraduate and graduate social work programs in the region. These programs which vary in some respects are delivered in multidisciplinary departments in colleges and universities in the region. In every institution a small number of social work faculty members deliver social work training which focuses on preparing social workers to practice in the Caribbean or elsewhere. In addition to the core courses and electives taught in these programs there is the requirement of a supervised internship that takes place within social service agencies. This internship may vary in duration and intensity according to the level of the training offered. Most programs have a regional orientation but faculty are being encouraged by the Association of Caribbean Social Work Educators (ACSWE) to use the IASSW/IFSW Global Standards to benchmark for excellence. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18300 International social work education: the Canadian context Moosa-Mitha, Mehmoona In this chapter I analyse themes that emerge from scholarship on international social work education in the Canadian context. I focus on international student exchanges in my analysis through a centring of the multicultural/settler identity of Canadian society. I reflect on the definition of global oppression, student outcomes and the Canadian liberal welfare state, through the lens of the multicultural/settler identity of Canadian society, which serves to collapse the binary that exists between national and international as the basic assumption within which international social work education normatively operates. It also highlights different motivations present when minority students undertake international social work exchanges. It emphasises the geo-political nature of space and boundary crossing and makes explicit the colonial nature of power relationships that divide the world into a global north and south. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18290 No issue, no politics: towards a New Left in social work education Gray, Mel; Webb, Stephen A. This chapter articulates a new politics for social work education in light of its public statements on confronting injustice and inequality (Global Agenda, International Federation of Social Workers, International Association of Schools of Social Work and International Council on Social Welfare (IASSW, ICSW, IFSW 2012). With social justice as a guiding value, we exhort social workers to take an ethical and political stance and define how commitments can be mobilised. Students come to social work motivated by change: they want to make a difference but the crucial question is ‘How do we make this happen?’ To answer this we need to understand the centrality that issues play in mobilising a politics of controversy for social work and gain salience with publics in political activation. We argue that the displacement of politics to a global forum, in which a cross-national alliance of social workers can hold an international institution to account, requires a concrete set of controversies over which mobilisation can be configured. Our intention is to conceive of public involvement in politics – in this instance by social work students and their educators – as being occasioned by, and providing a way to settle, controversies that existing institutions are unable to resolve. This chapter is in part a call for social work educators to renew their engagement with radical thought through issues that impact on students and practitioners alike. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18305 Social work education and training in southern and east Africa: yesterday, today and tomorrow Mupedziswa, Rodreck; Sinkamba, Refilwe P. In Africa, social work is considered a young profession, as it was imported from the West at the beginning of the last century. Critics have expressed concern that African social work education, because of its Western roots, lacked appropriateness and relevance. Many institutions in southern and east Africa have heeded the call to strive for relevance. Studies, however, reveal that enormous challenges have been encountered in attempts to realise relevance, while at the same time ensuring adherence to IASSW Global Standards. The impediments have included problems in generating indigenous teaching materials, lack of resources, lack of appropriate field placements, etc. Using empirical data, this paper commences by chronicling the historical development of social work education and training in Southern and East Africa, before surveying its current state, and concluding with comments on prospects for the future. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18311 Indigenism and Australian social work Fejo-King, Christine Indigenism is a concept that has emerged over the last 20 years as a result of the engagement of Indigenous academics with research. It is a way of claiming a space within research for Aboriginal knowledge systems and ways of knowing, being and doing. However, in Australia, Indigenism and Indigenist theory and practice have not been confined to research alone, it has been embedded within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social work for a number of decades. This chapter will introduce Indigenism and Indigenist theory and practice in social work, as it was developed in the Australian setting in the 1970s, identify how it has evolved and illustrate how it has impacted on both Australian social work and national policies and practices. The chapter will then move on to explore how Indigenism and Indigenist theory can inform social work theory and practice into the future. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18299 Economic crises, neoliberalism, and the US welfare state: trends, outcomes and political struggle Abramovitz, Mimi The rise of neoliberalism in the US represents a response to the second economic crisis of the 20th century. Seeking to restore profits and economic growth, neoliberal proponents called for redistributing income upwards and downsizing the state. The resulting tax and budget cuts, privatisation, devolution and weakening of social movements led to greater economic insecurity/poverty, increased social problems, greater privatisation of services and increased regulation of the poor. Neoliberalism created enormous wealth for the top earners but it failed to produce the promised economic growth. Three intertwined political tactics helped to convince the American public to support polices that undermined their well-being and political power: the fabrication of a crisis, the generation of four panics and the exploitation of the resulting fears to impose policies that people would not otherwise stand for. Social workers are encouraged to engage in political struggle to reverse the unjust outcomes of the neoliberal assault on welfare states around the world. 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z