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Issue Details: First known date: 1984... no. 1 1984 of Australian Aboriginal Studies est. 1983 Australian Aboriginal Studies
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1984 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
How Aboriginal Life Histories Can Be Written : A Response to the Review `Language and Dignity', Bruce Shaw , single work

'In a review titled 'Language and Dignity' Nancy Keesing (1983:16-18) claimed that the two books of Aboriginal Australian narratives, Banggaiyerri: the story of Jack Sullivan as told to Bruce Shaw (Shaw 1983a) and Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley (Roe and Muecke [ed.] 1983) were, in brief, clumsy, pretentious and stripped the dignity from the original storytellers. She is not quite as direct as this in her phrasing but her meaning is clear: '... Jack Sullivan is marginally less clumsy ... if I could read his story with any pleasure as to language, it would equal unpretentious works like ... I, as a general reader, feel strongly that whereas Nisa loses no dignity, nor immediacy in Marjorie Shostak's method ... Paddy Roe and Jack Sullivan have been deprived of their wide audience rights by the utmost but perhaps debatable goodwill of up-to-the-minute scholarship' (Keesing 1983:18).' (Publication abstract)

(p. 47-52)
[Review Essay] Aboriginal Australians : Black Response to White Dominance 1788-1980, Jane Pettman , single work essay

'This is Allen and Unwin's fourth book in 'The Australian Experience' series. It aims to overcome the distortion and marginality of Aborigines in white Australia's history and psyche. It is, Broome states, 'an attempt by an Australian of European descent to help put the record straight'. It recognises that most Australians are appallingly ignorant, not only about Aborigines but also about their own history and society.' (Introduction)

(p. 77-78)
[Review Essay] Generations of Resistance : The Aboriginal Struggle for Justice, Andrew Markus , single work essay (p. 78-79)
Invasion and Resistance: Aboriginal-European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier 1861-1897 : Review, Peter Read , single work review
— Review of Invasion and Resistance : Aboriginal-European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier, 1861-1897 Noel Loos , 1982 single work criticism ;
'Loos' study is based upon the thesis that geographical and chronological factors played upon and so altered the pattern of invasion in north Queensland that four distinct frontiers can be distinguished: the pastoral, mining, rainforest and maritime regions...'
(p. 79-80)
[Review Essay] Rebels and Radicals, Alex Barlow , single work essay

'This is a study of persons who were labelled rebels and radicals in their own time. The first two of the twelve essays are about Aborigines. Christine Wise, from the Australian National University, has written a very short piece on Mosquito, who was classed as a renegade and murderer in Tasmania and hung in February 1825. Bruce Shaw, from Darwin Community College, writes on Major who fought the settlers in the Ord River district of Western Australia until he was shot down by police in 1908.'  (Introduction)

(p. 80)
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