| Description |
xvii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1: Introductions. Writing about Islanders: recent research and future directions / Jeremy Beckett -- Torres Strait: the region and its people / David Lawrence and Helen Reeves Lawrence -- Culture connections / Ephraim Bani -- Evidence of cultural custodianship / Ephraim Bani. Part 2: Identity, Performance and Kastom. The spirit of the image (journeys) / Richard Davis -- 'The great traffic in tunes': agents of religious and musical change in eastern Torres Strait / Helen Reeves Lawrence -- 'Living in the light' and Island dance: morality and temporality in Warraber Christianities / Julie Lahn -- 'Embryonic science': the 1888 Torres Strait photographic collection of A.C. Haddon / Jude Philp -- Language diversity, pan-Islander identity and 'national' identity in Torres Strait / Anna Shnukal -- Cairns and Cambridge: an Australian anthropologist's view of the Cambridge Expedition's centenary / Maureen Fuary -- Cooking, walking, and talking cosmology: an Islander woman's perspective of religion / McRose Elu -- What is a totem? / Ephraim Bani. Part 3: Space, Region and Politics. Commonsense, colonialism and government / Martin Nakata -- Turning secession into self-governance in the Torres Strait / Sandra J. Kehoe-Forutan -- Shared space: Papuan perspectives of the Torres Strait / David Lawrence -- Bridge or barrier: the Torres Strait borderland / W. S. Arthur -- Schooling and the negotiation of culture on Saibai / Jenny Martin Davis -- Initiation / Ephraim Bani. Part 4: Time and Resources. Archaeology of the Murray Islands, eastern Torres Strait: implications for a regional prehistory / Melissa Carter et. al. -- 'Our feet are on the land, but our hands are in the sea': knowing and caring for marine territory at Erub, Torres Strait / Colin H. Scott -- Hunter skills: the dugong, the hunter and the talking sea grass / Ephraim Bani |
| Summary |
A collection of essays that communicates the unique histories and cultures of Torres Strait Islanders to a broad audience |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 273-295 |
| Notes |
2004 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
| Subject |
Torres Strait Islanders.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- History.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs.
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| Author |
Davis, Richard, 1965-
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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
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| ISBN |
085575432X : |
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