This collection includes papers by staff and Chief Investigators of the PARADISEC project.

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  • Songs and the Deep Present 

    Barwick, Linda
    Published 2023
    This chapter contributes to frameworks for understanding the deep human past by considering how expansion of attention to the present, through performance among other practices, can change one’s awareness of self in relation ...
    Open Access
    Book chapter
  • Mirrwana and wurrkama: applying an Indigenous knowledge framework to collaborative research on ceremonies 

    Ford, Payi Linda; Barwick, Linda; Marett, Allan
    Published 2014-01-01
    This chapter outlines how Ford, Barwick and Marett have collaborated to develop, implement, and critically evaluate a research project that integrates and remains true to both Indigenous and western academic knowledge ...
    Open Access
    Book chapter
  • Sharing and storing digital cultural records in Central Australian Indigenous communities 

    Vaarzon-Morel, Petronella; Barwick, Linda; Green, Jennifer
    Published 2021
    This article considers how Indigenous peoples in Central Australia share and keep digital records of events and cultural knowledge in a period of rapid technological change. To date, research has focused upon the development ...
    Open Access
    Preprint
  • Pan-Indigenous Encounter in the 1950s: ‘Ethnic Dancer’ Beth Dean 

    Harris, Amanda
    Published 2017
    From 1950, ‘ethnic dancer’ Beth Dean made her living on a lecture-demonstration touring circuit of the dance traditions of Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands and North America. To assert her expertise, she claimed ...
    Open Access
    Preprint
  • Disciplining music: Too many Peter Sculthorpes? 

    Harris, Amanda
    Published 2020
    Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. ...
    Open Access
    Book chapter

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