Woven histories, dancing lives : Torres Strait Islander identity, culture and history
Davis, Richard2004
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A collection of essays that communicates the unique histories and cultures of Torres Strait Islanders to a broad audience.
Main title:
Woven histories, dancing lives : Torres Strait Islander identity, culture and history / edited by Richard Davis
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Imprint:
Canberra Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies 2004
Collation:
313 p. illustrations maps
Contents:
Writing about Islanders: recent research and future directions by Jeremy Beckett - Torres Strait: the region and its people by David Lawrence and Helen Reeves Lawrence - Culture connections by Ephraim Bani - Evidence of cultural custodianship by Ephraim Bani - Identity, Performance and Kastom. The spirit of the image (journeys) by Richard Davis - 'The great traffic in tunes': agents of religious and musical change in eastern Torres Strait by Helen Reeves Lawrence - 'Living in the light' and Island dance: morality and temporality in Warraber Christianities by Julie Lahn - 'Embryonic science': the 1888 Torres Strait photographic collection of A.C. Haddon by Jude Philp - Language diversity, pan-Islander identity and 'national' identity in Torres Strait by Anna Shnukal - Cairns and Cambridge: an Australian anthropologist's view of the Cambridge Expedition's centenary by Maureen Fuary - Cooking, walking, and talking cosmology: an Islander woman's perspective of religion by McRose Elu - What is a totem? by Ephraim Bani - Space, Region and Politics. Commonsense, colonialism and government by Martin Nakata - Turning secession into self-governance in the Torres Strait by Sandra J. Kehoe-Forutan - Shared space: Papuan perspectives of the Torres Strait by David Lawrence - Bridge or barrier: the Torres Strait borderland by W. S. Arthur - Schooling and the negotiation of culture on Saibai by Jenny Martin Davis - Initiation by Ephraim Bani - Time and Resources. Archaeology of the Murray Islands, eastern Torres Strait: implications for a regional prehistory by Melissa Carter et. al. - 'Our feet are on the land, but our hands are in the sea': knowing and caring for marine territory at Erub, Torres Strait by Colin H. Scott - Hunter skills: the dugong, the hunter and the talking sea grass by Ephraim Bani.
ISBN:
085575432X (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.8991 WOV
Local class:
305.8991
Language:
English
BRN:
72
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 305.8991 WOV | Available |