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Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores the queer
dynamics of war across Australia and forward bases in the south
seas. It examines relationships involving Allied servicemen,
civilians and between the legal and medical fraternities that
sought to regulate and contain expressions of homosex in and out of
the forces.
The popularization of radio, television, and the Internet radically
transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific. These
technologies bequeathed media broadcasters with a profound
authority over the ways we engage with musical culture.
Broadcasters use this power to promote distinct cultural
traditions, popularize new music, and engage diverse audiences.
They also deploy mediated musics as a vehicle for disseminating
ideologies, educating the masses, shaping national borders, and
promoting political alliances. With original contributions by
leading scholars in anthropology, ethnomusicology, sound studies,
and media and cultural studies, the 12 essays this book investigate
the processes of broadcasting musical culture in the Asia Pacific.
We shift our gaze to the mechanisms of cultural industries in
eastern Asia and the Pacific islands to understand how
oft-invisible producers, musicians, and technologies facilitate,
frame, reproduce, and magnify the reach of local culture.
Mata Austronesia is a collection of illustrated stories told by
Austronesians past and present-an (ethno)graphic novel. Mata, the
word for "eye" in numerous Austronesian languages, represents the
common origin of the many distinctive Austronesian peoples spread
throughout their vast oceanic realm. The tales in this book immerse
us in the beauty of this shared heritage, ancestral memory, and
cultural legacy. Millennia before the first Europeans ventured into
the Pacific, Austronesian explorers sailing aboard their outrigger
and double-hulled voyaging canoes had already found, settled, and
succeeded in thriving on thousands of islands of the Pacific and
Indian Oceans. From Madagascar to Rapa Nui, Austronesia is a
diverse, complex, and extensive ethnolinguistic region stretching
across more than half of the Earth's saltwater expanse. This work
showcases the abundance of unique identities, histories,
ethnicities, cultures, languages, and storytelling traditions among
people of Austronesian descent. Modern-day storytellers weave the
past and present into a tapestry of tales passed down orally
through generations and contextualize the staggering immensity of
the cosmos, imparting meaning to visible and invisible realms.
Formed over thousands of years, the wisdom of Indigenous
Austronesians teaches us vital and contemporarily applicable
lessons on living in harmony with each other and our planet. Mata
Austronesia opens fresh avenues of connection and conversation
between Austronesian peoples who live on their native islands and
in diaspora, who are both unified and long-separated by oceans of
time, space, and Western colonial and cartographic impositions. It
includes stories from Ka Pae 'Aina o Hawai'i, Rapa Nui, Tahiti,
Taha'a, Kanaky (New Caledonia), Guahan (Guam), Aotearoa (New
Zealand), Viti (Fiji), Bali, Sulawesi (Celebes), Bohol (Visayas),
Tutuila (American Samoa), Kiritimati (Christmas Island), Banaba
(Ocean Island), and Madagasikara (Madagascar). With each
hand-painted watercolor brushstroke, Tuki Drake invites friends and
family of all heritages to fall in love with our shared ocean
world.
Bondi Beach is a history of an iconic place. It is a big history of
geological origins, management by Aboriginal people, environmental
despoliation by white Australians, and the formation of beach
cultures. It is also a local history of the name Bondi, the origins
of the Big Rock at Ben Buckler, the motives of early land holders,
the tragedy known as Black Sunday, the hostilities between
lifesavers and surfers, and the hullabaloos around the Pavilion.
Pointing to a myriad of representations, author Douglas Booth shows
that there is little agreement about the meaning of Bondi. Booth
resolves these representations with a fresh narrative that presents
the beach's perspective of a place under siege. Booth's creative
narrative conveys important lessons about our engagement with the
physical world.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
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1992 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the great Pacific naval
battles in the Coral Sea and off Midway Island. Occuring within a
month of each other, these turning Point engagements brought an end
to Japan's military expansion and six months of Allied defeat and
retreat in the Pacific. Fought mostly over the ocean by airmen
flying primarily from aircraft carriers, the battles were marked on
both sides by courage and luck, forewarning and foreboding, skill
and ineptitude. In this first book-length, partially-annotated
bibliography, Smith provides more than 1,300 citations to the
growing literature on these major battles. Materials in seven
languages are cited as well as information provided on many of the
repositories located in the United States or abroad that have
holdings necessary for the continuing reinterpretation of the
battles. Following an overview and introduction, the volume
contains sections devoted to reference works and sites, general
histories, hardware, biography, combatants, and special studies,
and separate section for both battles. Access is augmented by
author and name indexes. This volume will be a required reference
guide for all those concerned with the War in the Pacific and
modern military studies.
Interest in bush foods is booming. From Warrigal greens and
saltbush, to kangaroo and yabbies, more and more growers' markets
and local supermarkets are stocking these foods, and restaurants
are serving them on their menus. This short companion book to the
award-winning The Oldest Foods on Earth shows you how to cook with
Australian ingredients, where to find them and how to grow them.
Organised by ingredient, each chapter includes a brief history, a
practical guide, and recipes for you to make in your very own
kitchen. This updated edition includes brand new recipes from First
Nations chefs and an updated resources section with nurseries and
suppliers. It promises to broaden Australians' culinary horizons in
every way.
Children in the Marshall Islands do many things that adults do not.
They walk around half naked. They carry and eat food in public
without offering it to others. They talk about things they see
rather than hiding uncomfortable truths. They explicitly refuse to
give. Why do they do these things? Many think these behaviors are a
natural result of children's innate immaturity. But Elise Berman
argues that children are actually taught to do things that adults
avoid: to be rude, inappropriate, and immature. Before children
learn to be adults, they learn to be different from them. Berman's
main theoretical claim therefore is also a novel one: age emerges
through interaction and is a social production. In Talking Like
Children, Berman analyzes a variety of interactions in the Marshall
Islands, all broadly based around exchange: adoption negotiations,
efforts to ask for or avoid giving away food, contentious debates
about supposed child abuse. In these dramas both large and small,
age differences emerge through the decisions people make, the
emotions they feel, and the power they gain. Berman's research
includes a range of methods - participant observation, video and
audio recordings, interviews, children's drawings - that yield a
significant corpus of data including over 80 hours of recorded
naturalistic social interaction. Presented as a series of
captivating stories, Talking Like Children is an intimate analysis
of speech and interaction that shows what age means. Like gender
and race, age differences are both culturally produced and socially
important. The differences between Marshallese children and adults
give both groups the ability to manipulate social life in distinct
but often complementary ways. These differences produce culture
itself. Talking Like Children establishes age as a foundational
social variable and a central concern of anthropological and
linguistic research.
Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new
answer to that question, uncovering a "settler revolution" that
took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the
explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin,
the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Between 1780 and 1930 the number of English-speakers rocketed from
12 million in 1780 to 200 million, and their wealth and power grew
to match. Their secret was not racial, or cultural, or
institutional superiority but a resonant intersection of historical
changes, including the sudden rise of mass transfer across oceans
and mountains, a revolutionary upward shift in attitudes to
emigration, the emergence of a settler "boom mentality," and a late
flowering of non-industrial technologies--wind, water, wood, and
work animals--especially on settler frontiers. This revolution
combined with the Industrial Revolution to transform settlement
into something explosive--capable of creating great cities like
Chicago and Melbourne and large socio-economies in a single
generation.
When the great settler booms busted, as they always did, a second
pattern set in. Links between the Anglo-wests and their
metropolises, London and New York, actually tightened as rising
tides of staple products flowed one way and ideas the other. This
"re-colonization" re-integrated Greater America and Greater
Britain, bulking them out to become the superpowers of their day.
The "Settler Revolution" was not exclusive to the Anglophone
countries--Argentina, Siberia, and Manchuria also experienced it.
But it was the Anglophone settlers who managed to integrate
frontier and metropolis most successfully, and it was this that
gave them the impetus and the material power to provide the world's
leading super-powers for the last 200 years.
This book will reshape understandings of American, British, and
British dominion histories in the long 19th century. It is a story
that has such crucial implications for the histories of settler
societies, the homelands that spawned them, and the indigenous
peoples who resisted them, that their full histories cannot be
written without it.
This book is the first history of commercial television in regional
Australia, where diverse communities are spread across vast
distances and multiple time zones. The first station, GLV Latrobe
Valley, began broadcasting in December 1961. By the late 1970s,
there were 35 independent commercial stations throughout regional
Australia, from Cairns in the far north-east to Bunbury in the far
south-west. Based on fine-grained archival research and extensive
interviews, the book examines the key political, regulatory,
economic, technological, industrial, and social developments which
have shaped the industry over the past 60 years. Regional
television is often dismissed as a mere extension of - or footnote
to - the development of Australia's three metropolitan commercial
television networks. Michael Thurlow's study reveals an industry
which, at its peak, was at the economic and social heart of
regional communities, employing thousands of people and providing
vital programming for viewers in provincial cities and small towns
across Australia.
'The most significant issue that Dockrill addresses is that of how
Japan views the war in retrospect, a question which not only tells
us a lot about how events were seen in Japan in 1941 but is also, a
matter still of importance in contemporary East Asian politics.'
Antony Best, London School of Economics This multi-authored work,
edited by Saki Dockrill, is an original, unique, and controversial
interpretation of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Dr
Dockrill, the author of Britain's Policy for West German
Rearmament, has skilfully converted the proceedings of an
international conference held in London into a stimulating and
readable account of the Pacific War. This is a valuable
contribution to our knowledge of the subject.
The double canoe constituted the backbone of Polynesian culture,
since it enabled the Polynesians to enter and conquer the Pacific.
In Tonga, a center of Polynesian navigation, two types were known:
the tongiaki and the kalia. Contrary to most contributions, the
author argues that the Tongans were not only the Western Pacific
masters of navigation, but also of canoe designing. Typical of
Polynesian canoes was the sewing technique which can be traced back
to ancient India but was also practiced in Pharanoic Egypt and
southern Europe. The legend of the magnetic mountain is to be
viewed in this context. Oceanic navigation, which declined during
the 19th century, had developed its own means of orientation at
sea, including astronomy and meteorology.
Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia located in the
Indian Ocean. It is home to three main ethnic groups, the smallest
of which are European Australians. Christmas Island is also where
those who arrive "illegally" to seek asylum in Australia are
accommodated. Christmas Island has played a key role in Australian
security, located as it is at the northern extremity of Australian
territory; much closer to Indonesia than to the nation to which it
belongs, and from whose territory it has recently been excised for
migration purposes. As a migration exclusion zone, Christmas is
both within and without of the nation, and has gone from a place
known among nature lovers for its unique red crabs and bird life to
the highly politicised subject of national concern and heated
debate. But what is it like to be at home on Christmas Island? How
do locals make and come to be at home in a place both within and
without of the nation? This anthropological exploration--the very
first one ever undertaken of this strategically important
island--focuses closely on the sensual engagements people have with
place, shows how Christmas Islanders make recourse to the animals,
birds and topographic features of the island to create uniquely
islandic ways of being at home--and ways of creating "others" who
will never belong--under volatile political circumstances. This
original ethnography reveals a complex island society, whose
presence at the very edge of the nation reveals important
information about a place and a group of people new to ethnographic
study. In and through these people and their relationships with
their unique island place, this ethnographic exploration reveals a
nation caught in the grip of intensive national angst about its
borders, its sense of safety, its struggles with multiculturalism,
and its identity in a world of unprecedented migratory movement. As
the first book in the discipline of anthropology to study Christmas
Island in ethnographic terms, Christmas Island is a critical work
for all collections in anthropology and Australian Studies.
"Christmas Island is described by Simone Dennis as 'the last
outpost of the nation', that is, a multicultural microcosm of
contemporary Australia, worried by a search for a national identity
in touch with the past but not limited by it...In Simone Dennis,
Christmas Island has its consummate ethnographer and analyst." -
Professor Nigel Rapport, University of St. Andrews
First Published in 1973. Forming part of a collection on general
African studies, this text presents records of the Gold Coast
Settlements from 1750 to 1874, by the Colonial Secretary of Sierra
Leone, Major Crooks. It covers the period from the formation of the
last African Company of Merchants in 1750 until the conclusion of
the third Ashantee War in 1874.
On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs
landed ashore at Gallipoli. At the exact same moment, leading
figures of Armenian life in the Ottoman Empire were being arrested
in vast numbers. That dark day marks the simultaneous birth of a
national story - and the beginning of a genocide. When We Dead
Awaken - the first narrative history of the Armenian Genocide in
decades - draws these two landmark historical events together.
James Robins explores the accounts of Anzac Prisoners of War who
witnessed the genocide, the experiences of soldiers who risked
their lives to defend refugees, and Australia and New Zealand's
participation in the enormous post-war Armenian relief movement. By
exploring the vital political implications of this unexplored
history, When We Dead Awaken questions the national folklore of
Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey - and the mythology of Anzac Day
itself.
This book examines how convicts played a key role in the
development of capitalism in Australia and how their active
resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It
highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and
political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia's foundational
story. It is a book that will appeal to an international audience,
as well as the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who can
trace descent from convicts. It will enable the latter to make
sense of the experience of their ancestors, equipping them with the
necessary tools to understand convict and court records. It will
also provide a valuable undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
tool and reference for those studying unfree labour and worker
history, social history, colonization and global migration in a
digital age.
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