Exchanging Histories

Exchanging Histories
Author/editor: Professor Ann McGrath
Publisher: Aboriginal History, volume 30
Year published: 2006
School/Centre: School of History

Abstract

 Since WEH Stanner drew attention to the prevailing 'Great Australian Silence' in the late 1960s, it has been the subject of much historical commotion. Indeed, many non-Indigenous historians have been so focussed upon revising and interpreting the Indigenous 'silences' of the official archival records that they have not heard the racket being made by Indigenous artists, performers, biographers, poets, filmmakers and even footballers and their spectators. We welcome these voices, and timely discussions of them, into Aboriginal History volume 30. This volume explores issues primarily relating to non-textual modes of Aboriginal historical practice. It is inspired by our Australian Research Council Project, 'Unsettling histories: Indigenous modes of historical practice', which aims to encourage an appreciation of Indigenous historical interpretations in a variety of formats.

 

Extract from Preface, Exchanging Histories

Contents

1. Mapping outside the square: cultural mapping in the south-east Kimberley

2. Testimony

3. Historical encounters: Aboriginal testimony and colonial forms of commemoration

4. Karroo: mates - communities reclaim their images

5. Tracks

6. Aboriginality in the city: re-reading Koorie photography

7. A history of Indigenous futures: accounting for Indigenous art and media

8. 'The spirit, the heart and the power': an interview with the 'Stiff Gins' on music, friendship and history

9. Blackfellas rapping, breaking and writing: a short history of Aboriginal hip hop

10. Culture Cullt Clan 2001: comments on the survival of Torres Strait Culture

11. Canvassing identities: reflecting on the acrylic art movement in an Australian Aboriginal settlement

12. A modern day corroboree: towards a history of the New South Wales Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout

 

 

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