Record Nr.

UNINA9910455467003321

Titolo

The social archaeology of Australian indigenous societies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bruno David, Bryce Barker, Ian J. McNiven

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Canberra, A.C.T., : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006

ISBN

0-85575-557-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (774 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DavidBruno <1962->

BarkerBryce

McNivenIan J

Disciplina

305.89915

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians - Antiquities

Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs

Aboriginal Australians - History

Social archaeology - Australia

Electronic books.

Australia Social life and customs

Australia History

Australia Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Aboriginal Studies Press is the publishing arm of Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-367) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Part 1 The emergence of social archaeology in Australia; 1. The social archaeology of Indigenous Australia; December 1978; Towards a social archaeology; A different social archaeology for Indigenous societies?; Beyond ecology: socialising Indigenous pasts; The Aboriginal past as socially dynamic; Aboriginal environments as socially constructed; Aboriginal landscapes as socially inscribed; Aboriginal history as social agency; 2. An interview with Harry Lourandos; Acknowledgements

3. Harry Lourandos' life and work: an Australian archaeological odysseyAcknowledgements; Part 2 Tyranny of text; 4. Unpacking Australian prehistory; Unpacking our library, unpacking our thinking; Approaching the past: a concern with prejudice; Prehistory; Symbolic

ways of Being: hunting and gathering versus agriculture; Materiality of subsistence practices; Definitions; Symbolic meanings; Continuing Lourandos' project; Acknowledgements; Note; 5. Hierarchies of knowledge and the tyranny of text: archaeology, ethnohistory and oral traditions in Australian archaeological interpretation

IntroductionThe construction of scientific evidence; Historicising the Whitsunday's past; The historical record; Norman B Tindale; Walter E Roth; The archaeological record; Discussion; An integrative model?; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 6. Colonial diffusionism and the archaeology of external influences on Aboriginal culture; Introduction; Changing relevancy of an 'unresolved debate'; Colonial diffusionism; External influences and small tools; External influences, small tools and the dingo; External influences and intensification; External influences, the dingo and Torres Strait

Acknowledgements7. Harry Lourandos, the 'Great Intensification Debate', and the representation of Indigenous pasts; 'Intensification' revisited; Will the 'real' intensification please step forward?; The 'Great Intensification Debate'; Outcomes; Reactions; Revisions; Discussion: the politics and poetics of an archaeological debate; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Part 3 Anthropological approaches; 8. Footprints of the ancestors: the convergence of anthropological and archaeological perspectives in contemporary Aboriginal heritage studies; Introduction: archaeology contra anthropology

The material dimension of Aboriginal social lifeCultural continuity; Interpreting actions on Country; Aboriginal interpretations of artefactual remains; Birthplace; Burial sites; Footprints; Massacre sites; Case 1: Waanyi and Gangalidda, Gulf of Carpentaria; Case 2: Ghungalu and Kangoulu, central Queensland; Discussion; Acknowledgements; Notes; 9. Earth, wind, fire and water: the social and spiritual construction of water in Aboriginal societies; Introduction; Water; The people and environments of Princess Charlotte Bay; Aboriginal ontologies of waterscapes

Two sacred stories: water forms, ancestral beings and places

Sommario/riassunto

Revealing the ancient past of Aboriginal Australians to be one of longterm changes in social relationships and traditions?as well as in the active management and manipulation of the environment?this account encourages a deeper appreciation of the ways Aboriginal peoples have engaged with and constructed their worlds. The study also solicits a deeper understanding of the contemporary political and social context of research and the insidious impacts of colonialist philosophies.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390068503316

Titolo

The Barbarous & inhumane proceedings against the professors of the reformed religion within the dominion of the Duke of Savoy, Aprill the 27th, 1655 [[electronic resource] ] : as also, a true relation of the bloody massacres, tortures, cruelties, and abominable outrages committed upon the Protestants in Ireland ... which began Octob: 23. 1641 : and the lamentable and miserable condition of Germany ... which fell out Nov. 12, 1637 ... : illustrated with pictures, that the eye may affect the heart

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London, : Printed by M.S. for Tho. Jenner ..., 1655

Descrizione fisica

[1], 54 p. : ill

Soggetti

Waldenses

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 - Campaigns - Germany

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 - Destruction and pillage

Ireland History Rebellion of 1641