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41. Contemporary Sculpture in Australian
 
42. The Classical Temper in Western
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43. Cultural Studies: Volume 10, Issue
 
44. Australian Civilisation
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45. Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals
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46. Communication and Cultural Literacy:
 
47. Aborigines, Race and Racism (Australian
 
48. My Kind of People: Achievement,
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49. Western Horizon: Sydney's Heartland
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50. Blokes: Stories from Australian
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51. Ancestral Connections: Art and
52. The Forgotten Fifties: Aspects
 
53. Life Before Genesis: A Conclusion
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54. Nation, Culture, Text: Australian
 
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55. Dreamings = Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal
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56. EcCentric Visions: Re Constructing
 
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57. Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary
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58. Class, Culture, And The State
 
59. Australian Aborigines (Threatened
60. Networked Language; Culture &

41. Contemporary Sculpture in Australian Gardens
by Ken Scarlett
 Hardcover: 120 Pages (1993-11)
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Asin: 9768097469
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42. The Classical Temper in Western Europe: Papers from the Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
by John Hardy
 Hardcover: 128 Pages (1984-04-12)
list price: US$32.00
Isbn: 019554465X
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43. Cultural Studies: Volume 10, Issue 3: Australian Feminisms
Paperback: 180 Pages (1996-12-12)
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Asin: 0415145694
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Cultural Studiesis an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. ... Read more


44. Australian Civilisation
 Paperback: 272 Pages (1995-08-17)
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Isbn: 0195535049
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Australian civilization is described in this book with subtlety and irony as a "wildly problematic, discursive and sometimes cranky thing. It can be a sensitive thing. It can still be chauvinistic." The book brings together leading intellectuals who discuss the various dynamics of civilization in the Australian context. They debate openly and honestly the strengths and weaknesses of Australian civilization. The contributors each narrate Australian civilization from monographic viewpoints. Together these monographic views narrate the central concerns of this volume. The production of a master narrative is resisted. But it is equally obvious that in the diversity of approaches--the pluralism of the monographic views--there are recurring important themes. This timely book is concerned with the tremendous changes that have overtaken Australia in the second half of this century. It demonstrates that many time-honored beliefs have been broken up, but argues that this intensely creative period has seen Australia transformed from a provincial inward-looking society with blinkered conceptions of history and self-importance to one of the world's oldest and most successful liberal plural democracies. ... Read more


45. Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life
by Brigid Rooney
Paperback: 260 Pages (2009-09-01)
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Asin: 0702236624
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Uniquely examining the link between Australian writers and social change, this study investigates the motives behind literary figures who strive to become activists and social intellectuals. Exploring this intimate connection, this resource asks what such a bond reveals about Australian literature and the power of the written word. With fresh insight, this guide delves into the activism, careers, and writings of Judith Wright, Patrick White, Oodgeroo of the tribe of Noonuccal, Les Murray, Helen Garner, David Malouf and Tim Winton.
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46. Communication and Cultural Literacy: An Introduction (Australian Cultural Studies)
by Tony Schirato, Susan Yell
Paperback: 252 Pages (1996-08)
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Asin: 1864480408
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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An introduction to the basic concepts and skills of textual analysis. From Saussure to Bourdieu, this text presents a range of approaches to the study of communication and culture. It shows how the division between theory and practice can be overcome. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Clear Overview of Contextualised Communication
Schirato and Yell offer a clear and comprehensive overview of communicative practices in the contemporary world.The strength of their text is in bringing together the work of eminent theorists and researchers - among them Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, Ferdinand de Saussure, V.N. Volosinov, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Gunther Kress, Michael Halliday, M.M. Bakhtin - to explain communication practices within and across various cultures (though it still retains a distinctly Australian flavour).

Through frequent application of theoretical principles to everyday situations and cultural artefacts (such as newspaper articles, images, emails, letters, etc.) as examples, the authors are able to explain some complex ideas in highly accessible ways.The concept of 'cultural literacy' is deployed, relating together various theories, in order to explain the ways in which individuals communicate effectively within cultural contexts.It is this concept of 'context' that is at the centre of all communicative practices, and which shape the manner in which speech, writing and image (among other mediums) are used for meaning making.

In offering a broad overview of theories related to communication and culture, Schirato and Yell provide clear indications for further reading (there are brief, highlighted descriptions of central figures and their work).In acknowledging the limitations of their own work as an examination of communicative practices, therefore only generalisable in a limited sense, the authors nevertheless create a complex and relevant theory of 'cultural literacy' to explain ways in which individuals communicate effectively across various `cultural fields'.

At times, ideas could have been explained in a little more detail and drawn together more tightly into explicit observations (especially after the analysis of example texts), though this would have increased the complexity of the text overall.As adequate compensation, each chapter offers a brief concluding summary, which work well to draw the theories being developed into a cohesive whole.This could have been enhanced further with a more comprehensive concluding chapter, drawing together the ideas of the entire text.

Nevertheless, Schirato and Yell have provided an excellent introduction to communication and cultural theory.Accessible and well supported with evidence, the work of various researchers and theorists is drawn together to create clear and relevant theoretical observations for the modern world.An excellent introduction for anyone interested in cultural studies, communication, literacy studies or just the way that the modern 'information world' is changing the way human beings relate to each other.
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47. Aborigines, Race and Racism (Australian connexions)
by Humphrey McQueen
 Paperback: 63 Pages (1974)

Isbn: 0140807748
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48. My Kind of People: Achievement, Identity and Aboriginality (Uqp Black Australian Writers)
by Wayne Coolwell
 Paperback: 154 Pages (1994-05)
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Isbn: 0702225436
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49. Western Horizon: Sydney's Heartland and the Future of Australian Politics (Scribe Short Books)
by David Burchell
Paperback: 128 Pages (2003-09-01)
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Asin: 0908011938
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This analysis of Western Sydney's myriad faces explores its roles as suburban wonderland, ethnic trouble spot, home of gated communities. Western Sydney has become notorious for its supposedly uncharitable attitudes toward migrants and asylum-seekers, yet it's still the number-one destination for new arrivals. Evidence about the region's aspirations and social attitudes, and its place in the political nation, is surveyed. The area's recent reputation for racism and intolerance is explored as well. ... Read more


50. Blokes: Stories from Australian Lives
by AB Facey, TAG Hungerford, Sally Morgan, Bill Marks, Elizabeth Backhouse, Jack McPhee, Rod Ansell, Rachel Percy, Fred Airey
Paperback: 190 Pages (1998-07)
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Asin: 1863682341
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51. Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge
by Howard Morphy
Paperback: 348 Pages (1992-03-01)
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Asin: 0226538664
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Ancestral Connections unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu—an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land—and applying both anthropological and art historical methods, Howard Morphy explores systematically the graphic representation of traditional knowledge in Yolngu art. He also charts the role that art has played in Aboriginal society both present and past.

The rich symbolism of Yolngu art links the Yolngu directly with the "Dreaming," the time of world-creation that continues as the spiritual dimension of the present. Morphy shows how a complex dialectic of "inside" and "outside" interpretations of painting structures the system of knowledge in Yolngu society, and how European interest in this art has caused certain changes in the conditions of its production. The "inside" significance of the art, however, has not changed; it retains its dual ability to represent and to constitute relationships between things.

Ancestral Connections is a major contribution to the anthropology of art. A subtle commentary on the colonial encounter in northern Australia, the book demonstrates how the Yolngu have used their art—against all odds—as an instrument of cultural survival and as a component of the economic and political transformation of their society.

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5-0 out of 5 stars essential guide to Aboriginal religion and symbolism
Dr. Howard Morphy's articles and books are consistently well researched and readable; Ancestral Connections is no exception. This book provides a fascinating and rewarding insight into thought system poorly understood by the average layperson.Although this book presupposes a bit of background knowledge of the social systems and cultures of Arnhem Land, a careful reading of this work will unveil a beautiful and intricate symbolic and artistic system, intimately binding the clans of the Yolngu people to their land and the great ancestral beings who created them. Numbering around 5,000 people organized into 40 clans, the Yolngu are one of the largest and most politically influential Aboriginal groups in Australia, and their social system and totemic organization is representative of many of the cultures of the Top End.Their are few detailed and anthropologically sound studies of Aboriginal thought accessible to the non-specialist; Ancestral Connections is highly recommended as it truly humanizes this poorly understood and complex society, so often subject to inaccurate characterization by the popular media and New Age movement.If you want to understand Aboriginal religion and its place in society, read this book... ... Read more


52. The Forgotten Fifties: Aspects of Australian Society and Culture in the 1950s (Australian Historical Studies)
Paperback: 223 Pages (1997-12-31)

Isbn: 052284815X
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This collection assembles some of Australia's leading historians to present new perspectives on the 1950s. Focusing on social and cultural themes, they reveal a decade full of contradictions which belie the common, simplistic accounts of the time. Ranging from the education of the young Barry Humphries to the idea of an Australian 'identity' in the lead-up to the 1956 Olympics, these essays also include the personal recollections of three leading historians, providing a lively and critical insight into the Australia of the period. ... Read more


53. Life Before Genesis: A Conclusion : An Understanding of the Significance of Australian Aboriginal Culture (Toronto Studies in Religion)
by David H. Turner
 Hardcover: 181 Pages (1985-10)
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Isbn: 0820402443
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54. Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies (Communication and Society)
Paperback: 272 Pages (1993-11-15)
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Asin: 0415088860
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Nation, Culture, Text is the first collection of work in cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership. Participating in the `de-centering' of cultural studies--considering what perspectives non-Europeans or Americans have to offer--the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition of critical theory, and about the cultural specificity of theory itself.

Contributors:Tony Bennett, Stuart Cunningham, Ross Gibson, Pam Gilbert, Helen Grace, Ian Hunter, Elizabeth Jacka, Eric Michaels, Meaghan Morris, Virginia Nightingale, Tom O'Regan, Noel Sanders, John and Marian Tulloch. ... Read more


55. Dreamings = Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert (Art & Design)
by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker
 Hardcover: 151 Pages (1994-08)
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Asin: 3791314270
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56. EcCentric Visions: Re Constructing Australia
by Gaile McGregor
Paperback: 348 Pages (1994-01-01)
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Asin: 088920229X
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What this book represents is, quite literally, a “slice” of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, from soap operas to political behaviour, Gaile McGregor has constructed a model that, in its challenge to uniformitarianism, is a test case in ethnographic theory. Using methods ranging from the hermeneutic through the structuralist to the psychoanalytic, McGregor deploys the self-evidence of communal life and language to establish not only that all cultural phenomena are “patterned,” but that this patterning is unique to and consistent across the entire system.

Further, it not only influences but constrains the way the Australian conceptualizes, codifies and expresses his/her existential position. Hence the Australian predilection for icons of intermediacy: the verandah in architecture, the bush in literature, the beach in folk culture, the middle ground in landscape painting, the pub in everyday life. This identification with buffer zones between inside and outside not only mimics the Australian's real bracketing between desert and ocean, but embodies his/her sense of disablement vis-à-vis both culture and nature, art and techne, super-ego and id, all of which are coded as feminine.

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57. Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance (Dramaturgies: Texts, Cultures and Performances)
by Helena Grehan
 Paperback: 179 Pages (2001-07)
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Asin: 0820446718
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58. Class, Culture, And The State In Australian Education: Reform Or Crisis? (Comparative Studies Series, Bd. 7.)
by Anthony R. Welch
Paperback: 298 Pages (1997-12)
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Asin: 3631312431
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Australian education has been substantially re-shapedover the past decade or more, as part of a wider re-shaping of theAustralian state. Equity agendas have been increasingly muted, whileeconomic priorities have increasingly dominated educationalreforms. The book analyses key policy areas (Aboriginal education,multicultural education, gender, social class, schooling and work, andback-to-basics-curriculum movements) in light of these changes, andexamines whether these changes are best seen as reforms, or are theresult of a crisis in the Australian state. ... Read more


59. Australian Aborigines (Threatened Cultures)
by Richard Nile
 Hardcover: 48 Pages (1992-07-31)

Isbn: 0750203714
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A title from the THREATENED CULTURES series illustrated with colour photographs, looking at the history and culture of the original inhabitants of Australia and the challenges they face today in forcing the rest of Australia's population to acknowledge their rights. ... Read more


60. Networked Language; Culture & History in Australian Poetry
by Philip Mead
Paperback: 540 Pages (2008-01)
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Isbn: 1740971973
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