During the late‑nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries a significant number of amateur collectors were on a quest to record, categorise and preserve what they perceived to be the "dying races" of Aboriginal Australia. In New South Wales, collectors such as Alan Carroll (1823-1911) and Clifton Cappie Towle (1888-1946) set out to capture information on Aboriginal cultural practices and languages and to disseminate these through their networks and in published journals. Both used various kinds of methods to gather and document cultural content, be it in the form of diaries, paintings, manuscripts or photographs. This knowledge had previously been held by Aboriginal people in specific locations on Country or transmitted in fluid ways through r...
Arrernte people are arguably the most documented Aboriginal group in Australia. Their language was s...
The »Return, Reconcile, Renew Project«, a major research initiative funded by the Australian Resea...
The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash Unive...
From March to November 1948, 17 scientists made up the American-Australian Scientific Expedition (AA...
The State Library of New South Wales holds the worlds most extensive collection on the European expl...
While it is certainly the case that Indigenous Australians have suffered the consequences of being t...
In 2017 archaeological evidence was published which indicates that modern humans first arrived in Au...
I Indigenous peoples in Australia have been heavily documented in colonial archives and collections....
The practices of archival return may provide some measure of social equity to Indigenous Australians...
This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and...
I Indigenous peoples in Australia have been heavily documented in colonial archives and collection...
In 1938, the anthropologist Norman Tindale embarked on a two-year scientific expedition documenting ...
Knowledge is power. By extension, the language utilised to control, disseminate and record knowledge...
The project was intended to enhance the capacity of anthropologists and other researchers working in...
Extinction presents as a narrative thread in the collecting of Australian Aboriginal human remains i...
Arrernte people are arguably the most documented Aboriginal group in Australia. Their language was s...
The »Return, Reconcile, Renew Project«, a major research initiative funded by the Australian Resea...
The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash Unive...
From March to November 1948, 17 scientists made up the American-Australian Scientific Expedition (AA...
The State Library of New South Wales holds the worlds most extensive collection on the European expl...
While it is certainly the case that Indigenous Australians have suffered the consequences of being t...
In 2017 archaeological evidence was published which indicates that modern humans first arrived in Au...
I Indigenous peoples in Australia have been heavily documented in colonial archives and collections....
The practices of archival return may provide some measure of social equity to Indigenous Australians...
This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and...
I Indigenous peoples in Australia have been heavily documented in colonial archives and collection...
In 1938, the anthropologist Norman Tindale embarked on a two-year scientific expedition documenting ...
Knowledge is power. By extension, the language utilised to control, disseminate and record knowledge...
The project was intended to enhance the capacity of anthropologists and other researchers working in...
Extinction presents as a narrative thread in the collecting of Australian Aboriginal human remains i...
Arrernte people are arguably the most documented Aboriginal group in Australia. Their language was s...
The »Return, Reconcile, Renew Project«, a major research initiative funded by the Australian Resea...
The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash Unive...