Iain Davidson Iain Davidson i(A106242 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Connecting Myall Creek and the Wonomo Iain Davidson , Heather Burke , Lynley A Wallis , Bryce Barker , Elizabeth Hatte , Noelene Cole , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre 2018;
1 y separately published work icon The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration Russell McDougall (editor), Iain Davidson (editor), San Francisco : Left Coast Press , 2008 8781044 2008 anthology criticism
1 2 y separately published work icon High Lean Country : Land, People and Memory in New England Alan Atkinson (editor), J. S. Ryan (editor), Iain Davidson (editor), Andrew Piper (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2007 Z1392580 2007 anthology essay

'High Lean Country captures the rich history and haunting character of the New England region of northern New South Wales.

'The authors explore how memory - of land, of family, of patterns of life on the other side of the world - has influenced the identity of New England. They also consider how the high country itself has shaped its people and their sense of regional uniqueness. In doing so, this book sets a new direction for understanding Australia as a whole.

'Weaving together the histories of human settlement, economic, social and cultural development, as well as interactions with the environment, High Lean Country shows how colonial settlers strived for decades to literally create a new England. It traces the story of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge who turned their hands to sheep husbandry and developed a squattocracy, the establishment of schools and other institutions, and the cultivation of traditional arts. It also examines the early colonial bushranging period, and a history of not always friendly relations between white settlers and the local Aboriginal population.

'A project of the Heritage Futures Research Centre at the University of New England, High Lean Country is a fascinating study of this distinctive Australian high country.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 [Review Essay] Gwion Gwion Iain Davidson , 2001 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2001; (p. 68-69)

'This is a remarkable book. Perhaps for the first time, a major body of rock art is documented in the words of the people in whose tradition it was created. Ngarjno, Ungudman , Banggal and Nyawarra, senior elders (munnumburra) of the Ngarinyin people of northwestern Kimberley of Western Australia, worked with filmmaker Jeff Doring who took the sumptuous photographs, associated the edited munnumburra songs and narratives with the images and provides a small number of linking observations which place the words and pictures into a wider context. Banggal is better known to rock-art students and others by another name, that is not used here, for his involvement in the discussions about the repainting of rock art (Ward 1997). (Introduction)

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