Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians [PB] Available
Lynne Hume
Ancestral Power suggests that Aboriginal spirituality is much more complex and compelling than the early missionaries could ever have imagined.
Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines [PB] Available
Vivienne Rae-Ellis
Controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia.
Australian Lives
Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians [PB] Available
Coordinating editor Michele Grossman
This is a ground-breaking volume--the first collection of critical writing by Indigenous Australian intellectuals addressing contemporary cultural issues.
Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town [PB] Available
Heather McDonald
Awards: AIATSIS Stanner Award 2002
Analyses how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion and loss in order to make sense of their own dispossession.
Crossing Boundaries: Cultural, Legal, Historical and Practice Issues in Native Title [PB] Available
Sandy Toussaint (ed.)
In Crossing Boundaries, editor Sandy Toussaint and twenty contributors have created the first cross-disciplinary exploration of native title work.
Divided Nation?: Indigenous Australians in Australian Political Culture [PB] Available
Tim Rowse and Murray Goot
In May 1967, more than 90 per cent of Australians voted to strike parts of the Constitution that discriminated against Indigenous Australians.
Honour Among Nations?: Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer and Kathryn Shain (eds)
Honour Among Nations? emerges from the growing academic and public policy interest in the area of Indigenous peoples, treaties and agreements.
Academic Monograph
Honour Among Nations?: Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer and Kathryn Shain (eds)
Honour Among Nations? emerges from the growing academic and public policy interest in the area of Indigenous peoples, treaties and agreements.
Academic Monograph
Invisible Invaders: Smallpox and Other Diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880 [e-book] Available
Judy Campbell
In Invisible Invaders, Judy Campbell argues that epidemics of smallpox among Australian Aboriginals preceded European settlement.
Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines: Edited by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker [HB] Available
David Unaipon
In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith.
Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines: Edited by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker [PB] Available
David Unaipon
In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith.
The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby (eds)
The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.
Academic Monograph
The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby (eds)
The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.
Academic Monograph
Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement [HB] Available
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon
Awards: 2005 Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction Book Award
The extensive and stunning publication of Geoffrey Bardon's first-hand records of the beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement.
Miegunyah
Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement [PB] Available
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon
The extensive and stunning publication of Geoffrey Bardon's first-hand records of the beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement.
The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer [PB with flaps] Available
Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton (eds)
An expanded edition of The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer, with a new introduction by John Morton.
General Series
The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer [HB] Available
Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton (eds)
An expanded edition of The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer, with a new introduction by John Morton.
Miegunyah
Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History [HB] Available
Bain Attwood
Tells the fascinating story of the only treaties ever made between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia.
Miegunyah
Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature [PB] Available
Clare Bradford
Awards: Winner of Children's Literature Association Book Award, US
International Research Society of Children's Literature (IRSCL) Award 2003
Reading Race looks at the changing ways in which Australia's indigenous peoples have been--and continue to be--represented in books for children.
Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation [PB] Available
Ken Gelder & Jane M. Jacobs
This challenging book examines how the sacred haunts the modern in Australian society through the effect of the uncanny.
Untold Stories: Memories and Lives of Victorian Kooris [PB] Available
Jan Critchett
Awards: Victorian Community and Local History Awards 1999
Jan Critchett presents a series of moving Aboriginal biographies from the Western District of Victoria. She draws both on the oral tradition of local Koori elders and on official records.
