Research Catalog

Title

Woven histories, dancing lives : Torres Strait Islander identity, culture and history / edited by Richard Davis.

Publication

Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Davis, Richard (Lecturer)
• Davis, Richard, 1965-
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Description

xvii, 313 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

A collection of essays that communicates the unique histories and cultures of Torres Strait Islanders to a broad audience.

Subject

• Torres Strait Islanders
• Torres Strait Islanders > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-295) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

085575432X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004303821

OCLC

56519214

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library