Publications
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In Defence of Country: Life Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Servicemen and Women
(2016)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been protecting country since time immemorial. One way they have continued these traditions in recent times is through service in the Australian military, both overseas and ...
The New Pacific Diplomacy
(2016)
Since 2009 there has been a fundamental shift in the way that the Pacific Island states engage with regional and world politics. The region has experienced, what Kiribati President Anote Tong has aptly called, a ‘paradigm ...
A Mission Divided
(2016)
This book provides insight into the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji. The mission was a site of work ...
Journeys into the Rainforest (Terra Australis 43)
(2016)
This monograph presents the results of archaeological research that takes a longitudinal approach to interpreting and understanding Aboriginal–European contact. It focuses on a small but unique area of tropical rainforest ...
China & ANU
(2016)
The Pacific War and its aftermath radically transformed Australian perceptions of what was then called the ‘Near North’. Many recognised that in the postwar world Australia’s strategic interests and economic fortunes called ...
Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam: Remaking Social Relations in a Post-socialist Nation
(2016)
Vietnam’s shift to a market-based society has brought about profound realignments in its people’s relations with each other. As the nation continues its retreat from the legacies of war and socialism, significant social ...
The First Fleet Piano: Volume One and Two
(2015)
During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable ...
Master poets, ritual masters: The art of oral composition among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia
(2016)
This is a study in oral poetic composition. It examines how oral poets compose their recitations. Specifically, it is a study of the recitations of 17 separate master poets from the Island of Rote recorded over a period ...
Engaging Indigenous Economy. Debating diverse approaches
(2016)
The engagement of Indigenous Australians in economic activity is a matter of long-standing public concern and debate. Jon Altman has been intellectually engaged with Indigenous economic activity for almost 40 years, most ...
Learning from agri-environment schemes in Australia. Investing in biodiversity and other ecosystem services on farms
(2016)
Learning from agri-environment schemes in Australia is a book about the birds and the beef — more specifically it is about the billions of dollars that governments pay farmers around the world each year to protect and ...