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AbstractThis paper is a reading of the life story of Jack Sullivan, an Aboriginal stock worker employed by the Durack family in the east Kimberley. It draws upon ethnographic and other writing to suggest the processes of pastoralist hegemony. Durack rule constituted several male Aboriginal workers as trusted intermediaries with those who were more distant from the colonists. Autonomous and skilful, Jack aligned himself with the ‘inside’ world centred on the homestead, against the danger ‘outside’. The ‘inside’ position seems to have had some roots in waves of Aboriginal cultural renewal (from the south and east). The paper uses ethnographic evidence to interpret the local eminence of one agent of this renewal, Boxer, a Queensland Aborigine who helped rai

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1987.tb02263.x

年代:1987

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AbstractNancy Munn's ‘The Transformation of Subjects into Objects in Walbiri and Pitjantjatjara Myth’ is a landmark in our understanding of the processes by which the Aboriginal world is created and sustained. Her paper is summarised and then related to similar concerns extant among the neighbouring Aranda. Munn's account of relationships between people and country is shown to be part of a wider reality encompassing all stages of the life‐cycle and characterised by a triple dialectic between ‘surface’ and ‘depth‘, between male and female, and between life and death. The study is preliminary to a psychological account of these dialectical processes to be published at

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1987.tb02264.x

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AbstractWriting on the labour trade focuses on the question of whether Melanesian labourers recruited to work in Australia and Fiji were kidnapped slaves, or willing volunteers. This debate about victims versus actors tends however to be constructed from the viewpoint of the male recruit. The small minority of Melanesian women who were recruited are typically seen as motivated to go because of love or sexual relations with men, and are sometimes portrayed as ‘prostitutes‘. Through an examination of some primary sources, secondary interpretative histories and the oral history of one region of Vanuatu, this paper queries this image of women in the labour trade. It suggests moreover, that the labour trade must be seen as having dramatic effects on relations between women and men in Vanuatu's villa

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1987.tb02265.x

年代:1987

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1987.tb02266.x

年代:1987

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1987.tb02267.x

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Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland.By Roy Wagner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv + 238. Price: US$30.Symbols That Stand For Themselves.By Roy Wagner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 150.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1987.tb02268.x

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Islands of History.By M. Sahlins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xix + 180. Price: US$22.50.Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii.By V. Valeri. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xvii + 446.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1987.tb02269.x

年代:1987

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