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Free Download Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia By Mark Harvey, Nicholas Reid
1997 | 306 Pages | ISBN: 9027230404 | PDF | 26 MB
This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal classification systems, there appear to be a significant percentage of nominals with an arbitrary classification. There is a considerable body of literature aimed at elucidating the semantic bases of clasification in such systems, thereby reducing the degree of apparent arbitrariness. Contributors to this volume continue this line of enquiry, but also propose that arbitrariness in itself has a role from a wider socio-cultural perspective. Previous analyses of the discourse role of classification systems posit that they play a significant role in referential tracking. For the languages surveyed in this volume, contributors propose that reference instantiation is an equally significant function, and indeed that reference instantiation and tracking cannot be properly divided from one another. This volume provides detailed information on classification in a number of northern Australian languages, whose systems are otherwise poorly known.

Free Download Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia by Patricia Burke Wood, David A. Rossiter
English | June 20, 2023 | ISBN: 077486625X | 312 pages | PDF | 2.79 Mb
A clear-eyed study that dissects the unstable ideologies of settler-Indigenous land and title arrangements in British Columbia.

Free Download Alyssa L. Trometter, "Aboriginal Black Power and the Rise of the Australian Black Panther Party, 1967-1972 "
English | ISBN: 3030881350 | 2021 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Examining transnational ties between the USA and Australia, this book explores the rise of the Aboriginal Black Power Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s. Aboriginal adaptation of the American Black Power movement paved the way for future forms of radical Aboriginal resistance, including the eventual emergence of the Australian Black Panther Party. Through analysis of archival material, including untouched government records, previously unexamined newspapers and interviews conducted with both Australian and American activists, this book investigates the complex and varied process of developing the Black Power movement in a uniquely Australian context. Providing a social and political account of Australian activism across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, the author illustrates the fragmentation of Aboriginal Black Power, marked by its different leaders, protests and propaganda.

Free Download Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia by Patricia Burke Wood, David Rossiter
English | December 13th, 2023 | ISBN: 077486625X | 312 pages | True EPUB | 0.59 MB
The so-called land question dominates political discourse in British Columbia. Unstable Properties reverses the usual approach – investigating Aboriginal claims to Crown land – to reframe the issue as a history of Crown attempts to solidify claims to Indigenous territory.

Free Download Yale D. Belanger, "Blockades or Breakthroughs?: Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0773543902, 0773543910 | EPUB | pages: 488 | 1.5 mb
Blockades have become a common response to Canada’s failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations. Blockades or Breakthroughs? debates the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people. The adoption of direct action tactics like blockades and occupations is predicated on the idea that something drastic is needed for Aboriginal groups to break an unfavourable status quo, overcome structural barriers, and achieve their goals. But are blockades actually "breakthroughs"? What are the objectives of Aboriginal people and communities who adopt this approach? How can the success of these methods be measured? This collection offers an in-depth survey of occupations, blockades, and their legacies, from 1968 to the present. Individual case studies situate specific blockades and conflicts in historical context, examine each group?s reasons for occupation, and analyze the media labels and frames applied to both Aboriginal and state responses. Direct action tactics remain a powerful political tool for First Nations in Canada. The authors of Blockades or Breakthroughs? Argue that blockades and occupations are instrumental, symbolic, and complex events that demand equally multifaceted responses. Contributors include Yale D. Belanger, Tom Flanagan, Sarah King, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, David Rossiter, John Sandlos, Nick Shrubsole, and Timothy Winegard.

Free Download Bindi Bennett, "Aboriginal Fields of Practice"
English | ISBN: 1352012332 | 2021 | 325 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This textbook features a groundbreaking collection of chapters co-written by Aboriginal authors. Informed by current field expertise, it provides an innovative teaching resource that recognizes and appreciates Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing, and demonstrates a commitment to decolonizing and reconciliation within social work and Allied Health. Aboriginal Fields of Practice explores many areas that have not been discussed before in contemporary Australia, including discussion of practice in criminal justice and an understanding of rural and remote practice. This valuable text will provide an excellent grounding for students and practitioners working with Aboriginal peoples.

Free Download A Record in Bone
by Langley, Michelle C.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0855751282 | 273 pages | True PDF EPUB | 32.63 MB