1–10 of 20 total results for politics by keyword.
Missing the Revolution! Negotiating disclosure on the Pre-Macassans (Bayini) in North-East Arnhem Land
Ian McIntosh
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 19 November 2009
Dr Ian S McIntosh examines how Yolngu people negotiated disclosure and concealment in relation to Bayini bark paintings. What did they tell Charles Mountford about it and why? What did they tell other anthropologists and how is that issue significant?
The forbidden gaze: The 1948 Wubarr ceremony performed for the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
Murray Garde
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 19 November 2009
Dr Murray Garde considers the Wubarr ceremony performed in 1948 and examines the tangled cross-cultural politics of non-Aboriginal involvement in secret Aboriginal religious ceremonies in Western Arnhem Land.
Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary feature
Tony MacGregor
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Arts Editor for Radio National, Tony MacGregor examines the 1948 ABC radio feature about the Expedition both as a remarkable contemporary account and as a media object of an emerging form – the radio documentary feature.
Launch of Collecting Cultures, a book about the 1948 expedition
Craddock Morton
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Craddock Morton, Director of the National Museum of Australia, introduces, contextualises and launches the book by Sally K May: Collecting Cultures: Myth, Politics and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
A history of the 1948 expedition
Sally K May
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Sally K May provides a historical overview of the Expedition, its planning and execution.
Locating the expedition politically: 1948 American–Australian Relations
Kim Beazley
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Professor Kim Beazley situates the 1948 Expedition in the context of postwar international relations.
Inside Mountford’s tent: paint, politics and paperwork
Philip Jones
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Charles Mountford lacked formal credentials as an anthropologist or scientist, yet he led the largest and most complex scientific expedition to remote Australia. Dr Philip Jones explores Mountford’s contribution and the controversy around his leadership.
Terra incognito no more – reflecting on change
Robyn Williams
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 16 November 2009
At the time of this ‘last great expedition’, many plants, animals, aspects of human culture were unknown to science. Robyn Williams launches the symposium Barks, Birds and Billabongs with a broad-ranging talk on science since 1948.
Necessity entrepreneurship within a dominant society
Dennis Foley
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Dennis Foley describes two kinds of Indigenous entrepreneur: ‘opportunists’ who seize a concept and use their networks to embark on a business venture, and those who lack capital, so out of ‘necessity’ must adapt to dominant culture to provide the basics.
The hybrid economy as political project
Professor Jon Altman
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Altman introduces his conceptual framework ‘the hybrid economy’, devised as a means to overcome the binary between market/non-market and to explore alternative ways of understanding and practising ‘development’.
