Aboriginal Healthworkers:
Primary Health Care at the Margins
Edited by Bill Genat
2006
978 1 920694 765 $39.95 Pb  Add to cart
Aboriginal Healthworkers is a frank and insightful look at the state of Aboriginal primary healthcare in Australia: what healthworkers do and their views on their work as well as how their activities are perceived by the likes of doctors, nurses and – most importantly of all – their Indigenous clients.
Dr Bill Genat brings a lively and informed perspective to this timely study of urban healthworkers and allows their voices to be heard – many for the first time. Aboriginal Healthworkers looks beyond the historical legacies of cultural exclusion, oppression and racism which pervade Indigenous healthcare issues towards charting new responses and practices by which Aboriginal healthworkers can provide healing, holistic services to Indigenous communities.
 Aborigines and
Activism: Race, Aborigines and the Coming of the Sixties to
Australia
Jennifer Clark
2008
978 0980296 570 $39.95 Pb
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The popular saying goes that if you can remember the 60s
then you weren’t really there, but the 60s is much more
than a hazy mixture of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.
The story of the coming of the 60s to Australia is the story of
Aboriginal activism.
In a provocative reappraisal of the tumultuous 60s,
Aborigines and Activism: Race and the Coming of the
Sixties to Australia re-contextualises the history of
Aboriginal activism within wider international movements.
From the early days of grassroots resistance through to Charles
Perkins’ 1965 Freedom Ride, the 1967 Referendum,
Canberra’s Tent Embassy and beyond, this is the story of
the Great Southern Land’s racial awakening – a time
when Aborigines and their white supporters achieved a paradigm
shift in the search for equality, justice and human dignity that
still has powerful implications for 21st Century Australia.
Conversations with the Mob Megan Lewis
2008
978 1921401 03 9 $49.95 Hb Add to cart
When the Mob allowed a whitefella – photojournalist Megan Lewis – to
come and live with them, the understanding was she was there to take
photographs to share with outsiders.
But as two and a half years passed
and Megan absorbed herself in the Mob’s way, it became apparent that
the project was more than a book or an exhibition… it was a journey of
marpan (healing) for whitefellas and Martu alike. Conversations with the Mob
is a stunning collection of over 100 photographs with oral stories
capturing the beauty, homour, sadness and friendship of a traditional
Aboriginal community grappling with the demands of Western culture.
For Their Own Good:
Aborigines and Government in the SouthwestAnna Haebich
1988
978 1 875560 149 $32.95 Pb Add to cart
For Their Own Good is a powerful and moving history of Aboriginal people in the southwest of Western Australia, recording how their independent lives in the bush, on stations and even their own small farms were progressively eroded by discriminatory laws, bureaucratic interference and overt racism.
‘This monograph may well be the most impressive study published in the field in recent years... - Bain Attwood, Australian Historical Studies
‘Widely acclaimed for its detailed and perceptive account...it is destined to become a classic in its field.’ - The West Australian
Melodies of Mourning:
Music & Emotion in Northern AustraliaFiona Magowan
2001
978 1920694 99 9 $39.95 Pb  Add to cart Melodies of Mourning
is a groundbreaking new title focussing on the songs, dances and
emotional experiences of the Yolngu people of Northeast Arnhem Land. It
invites readers to rethink the place of ecology in music and emotion as
well as how emotions transcend cultural difference. This is a must-read
for all those interested in cultural studies and peoples’ connections
with the environment.
 Mission Girls:
Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1900-1950
Christine Choo
2001
978 1 876268 557 $38.95 Pb Add to cart
2001 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (Shortlisted)
2001 Australian Historical Association's W.K. Hancock Award (Shortlisted)
Mission Girls examines the plight of Aboriginal women who lived on Catholic missions in Beagle Bay and Kalumburu in Western Australia’s Northwest between 1900 and 1950.
Exploring the effects of European colonization on these women together with the politics of race, gender and class inherent in the colonizing process, Christine Choo highlights government and mission attempts to control the sexuality and reproduction of Aboriginal women while also documenting the covert ways in which the Mission girls subverted attempts to control their lives.
‘Its notes and bibliography are meticulous and its arguments thorough and persuasive. More significantly, it makes good reading.’ - The Australian
 A Story To Tell
Laurel Nannup
2006
978 1 920694 706 $24.95 Hb Add to cart Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2007
In A Story to Tell, Laurel Nannup evokes with great warmth and humour memories of her childhood spent as part of a large Aboriginal family. Illustrated throughout with Laurel’s striking woodcuts and etchings, A Story To Tell glows with affectionate tales of family picnics, roaming through the bush, sharing campfire stories and special events such as buying a new dress and First Communion.
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