UWA Press - Australasian Studies

Applied Anthropology in Australasia

Edited by Sandy Toussaint and Jim Taylor
2002
978 1 876268 28X $38.45 Pb Add to cart

Contributors such as Jim Birckhead, Robert Fisher, Graham Fordham, Jim Fox, John Gordon, Jocelyn Grace, Ian Keen, Philip Moore, David Ritchie, John Stanton, Jim Taylor, and Yunita Winarto examine the importance of cultural analysis, representation, ethics, advocacy, reflexivity, the limitations and advantages of short-term and long-term research as well as the relationship between 'pure' and 'applied' anthropology in this wide-ranging text aimed at academics, consultants and students.

Leaving Year Zero

Richard Lunn
2004
978 1 920694 102 $38.95 Pb Add to cart

‘When I came to Australia as a refugee I worked hard, very hard, especially at science and maths, because I wanted to become a nuclear physicist and build an atom bomb to kill the Khmer Rouge.’

These are the words of Soour Gov, summing up the anger and grim determination of his early adolescence in Australia after escaping the Killing Fields of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot and his infamous Khmer Rouge.

Containing compelling accounts of bravery and survival against all odds by six Cambodian refugees escaping the murder and devastation of their homeland, Leaving Year Zero is a moving testament to their remarkable resilience and strength of character as each former refugee builds a new life here in Australia.

‘The book is an incredibly powerful read...an important and excellent book.’ - Australian Bookseller & Publisher

Mixed Relations

Regina Ganter
2006
978 1 920694 412 $54.95 Pb Add to cart

Based on over one hundred interviews with Indigenous people as well as those of Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Malay and Afghan descent, Mixed Relations challenges the dominant ‘White Australian’ paradigm of early colonization by arguing that the history of the nation’s settlement actually begins in Australia’s Far North, with the well-documented Makassan trade.

Regina Ganter proposes that–both numerically and in terms of their impact on Aboriginal policy–Asia continues to play a dominant role in Australia’s north and is thus implicated in the story of the ‘Stolen Generation’.

Part family history, part sweeping historical narrative, Mixed Relations is an entirely new way of looking at Australia’s past.