Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Rus

Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology (Archaeology in Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

McNiven, Ian J.

Russell, Lynette

Archaeology

AltaMira Press

: Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell outline archaeology's "colonial culture" and how it has shaped archaeological practice over the past century. Using examples from their native Australia― and comparative material from North America, Africa, and elsewhere― the authors show how colonized peoples were objectified by research, had their needs subordinated to those of science, were disassociated from their accomplishments by theories of diffusion, watched their histories reshaped by western concepts of social evolution, and had their cultures appropriated toward nationalist ends. The authors conclude by offering a decolonized archaeological practice through collaborative partnership with native peoples in understanding their past.

Routledge Companion To Global Indigenous History

McGrath, Ann

Routledge

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2022]

Roving Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790–1870 (SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building)

A comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.

Roving Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790-1870 (Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building)

History

Australia & Oceania

State Univ of New York Pr

A comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing. For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt―dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers. In some cases participation was voluntary; in others it was more invidious and involved kidnapping and trade in women. In many cases, the individuals maintained and exercised a degree of personal autonomy and agency within their new circumstances. This book explores some of their lives and adventures by analyzing archival records of maritime industry, captains’ logs, ships’ records, and the journals of the sailors themselves, among other artifacts. Much of what is known about this period comes from the writings of Herman Melville, and in this book Melville’s whaling novels act as a prism through which relations aboard ships are understood. Drawing on both history and literature, Roving Mariners provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.

State University of New York Press

In 2023, debate about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament swirls around us as Australia heads towards a referendum on amending the Constitution to make this Voice a reality. The idea of a "First Nations Voice" was famously raised in 2017, when Indigenous leaders drafted the Statement from the Heart -- also known as the Uluru Statement. It was envisioned as a representative body, enshrined in the Constitution, that would advise federal parliament and the executive government on laws and policies of significance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. But while Indigenous people may finally get their Voice, will it be heard? In Time to Listen, Melissa Castan and Lynette Russell explore how the need for a Voice has its roots in what anthropologist WEH Stanner in the late 1960s called the Great Australian Silence, whereby the history and culture of Indigenous Australians have been largely ignored by the wider society. This "forgetting" has not been incidental but rather an intentional, initially colonial policy of erasement. So have times now changed? Is the tragedy of that national silence -- a refusal to acknowledge Indigenous agency and cultural achievements -- finally coming to an end? And will the Makarrata Commission, which takes its name from a Yolngu word meaning "peace after a dispute", become a reality too, overseeing truth-telling and agreement-making between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians? The Voice to Parliament can be a transformational legal and political institutional reform, but only if Indigenous people are clearly heard when they speak.

Time to Listen: An Indigenous Voice to Parliament (In the National Interest)

Castan, Melissa

Anthropology

Monash University Publishing

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