G Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 7674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2656-4766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Death in life or life in death? Dementia’s ontological challenge
Is it possible to end one's life well with dementia? The perception of dementia as death brought into life flows from ideas about humanness embedded in medicine's Cartesian paradigm. Dementia as incurable brain disease exacerbates negativity. But the real impact of dementia is that it changes social relations: to live well with dementia requires a relational not Cartesian understanding of life. A relational ontology prioritizes social health: to …
Human Rights in Context
(2013). Human Rights in Context: Culture, Power and Personhood. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 19, Special Issue: Human Rights in Context: Culture, Power and Personhood, pp. 1-9
Who is the ‘human’ in ‘human rights’
(2013). Who is the ‘human’ in ‘human rights’? Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 19, Special Issue: Human Rights in Context: Culture, Power and Personhood, pp. 107-131
Autonomous Selves in a Bureaucratised World
Different histories and ecologies separate the Mardu of the Western Desert from the Wiradjuri of rural New South Wales, yet both evidence a desire for a social autonomy grounded in the value both place on personal autonomy. This claim flies in the face of assumptions that distinctive intra-Aboriginal values and practices collapse in the undermining of the cosmological framework of the Dreaming. The Wiradjuri, although they stayed in country, coul…
Does ‘culture’ have ‘history’? Thinking about continuity and change in central New South Wales
The Secularisation of Riverine Law in South-East Australia
The decline of religious beliefs and practices in the south-east of Australia is often read as a ‘loss’ of cultural meaning and practice. In this paper, I look at the significance of secularisation for laws associated with land ownership, arguing that it is in the practice of law that one sees distinct continuities, rather than in the religious vehicles in which they were once packaged. This implies that we need to understand the operation of law…
How Canadians Communicate III
D a vid Tara s other factors and conditions to determine how we use and give meaning to popular culture.The book raises critical issues about our uses of myths and stereotypes, how we define beauty, how we deal with our darkest visions, the role of violence in society, how culture is used both to enforce and to push the boundaries of convention and social control and how we express our many identities.The hope is that Contexts of Popular Culture …
Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling
Climate Reversal The climate and environment of the Arctic have changed drastically over the short course of modern observation. Kaufman et al. (p. 1236 ) synthesized 2000 years of proxy data from lakes above 60° N latitude with complementary ice core and tree ring records, to create a paleoclimate reconstruction for the Arctic with a 10-year resolution. A gradual cooling trend at the start of the record had reversed by the beginning of the 20th …
‘Tomorrow comes when tomorrow comes’
The authors have worked in Australian Aboriginal communities within the Wiradjuri area of central‐western New South Wales. Examining what appear to be distinctive Aboriginal approaches to time, we argue that these stem not from a different notion of time as such but, rather, from the relationship between the social and the self which places a distinctive value on the use and management of time. One way to access the dynamic between time and self …
"Painting the "Soft Knife
Harry Wedge is an artist from Cowra in central New South Wales. A Wiradjuri man, his people's history as colonial subjects has seen them confined to small residential reserves on the outskirts of country towns. Employed for over a century within the pastoral industry, Wiradjuri people have also suffered the brunt of its recent economic collapse. Harry started painting a decade ago in a highly distinctive "naïve" style. His paintings examine colon…
Photos in Wiradjuri Biscuit Tins
Tins, cardboard boxes and albums hold one of the most prized and jealously guarded of all Wiradjuri Aboriginal ‘material’ possessions, the family photos. They are used to tell and recall stories, introduce people to kin, as items of exchange and as important statements of identity and belonging in the spatial and temporal politics of kinship. In this ethnographic study of Indigenous photo collections in south‐east Australia, I argue that photos h…
Ethnography, Advocacy and Feminism
Ethnography may lie at the heart of anthropological methodology but its claims are contested. Feminist anthropologists in particular have debated the challenges a critical academic discipline poses for a consciously politicised positioning of the ethnographer, examining the constraints this might impose on the ethnographic project. Such dilemmas are compounded in the context of advocacy work. This critique of a feminist ethnography (Diane Bell's …
Reporting Client Violence
Much has been written about client violence against social workers; however, little attention has been given to reporting behavior of social workers who have been the target of such violence. The study discussed in this article documents the prevalence of client violence among a sample of social workers from a broad range of social work settings. It examines respondents' reasons for not reporting or for reporting client violence to management. A …
Judge or Jury; Involving People in Decision-Making
Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees, glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic environmental variability over the last 400 years. From 1840 to the mid-20th century, the Arctic warmed to the highest temperatures in four centuries. This warming ended the Little Ice Age in the Arctic and has caused retreats of glaciers, melting of permafrost and sea ice, and alteration of terrestrial and lake ecosys…
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
Part 1 Introduction: culture and diversity in Japan, Gaynor Macdonald and John C. Maher. Part 2 Historical and cultural frameworks: nationalism and cultural pluralism in modern Japan - Soetsu Yanagi and the Mingei Movement, M. William Steele the sociology of ethnocentrism in Japan, Hideichiro Nakano the Ainu - construction of an image, Richard Siddle the right stuff - towards environmental liguistics, John C. Maher and Charles Li. Part 3 Other vo…
The Holocene closing of the ?ice-free? corridor
Summary Report First International Conference on Healthy Lifestyles Leningrad, 12–14 December 1990
Report First International Conference on Healthy Lifestyles Leningrad, 12–14 December 1990 Get access G. MACDONALD G. MACDONALD This report was prepared in collaboration with WHO Regional Office for Europe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Promotion International, Volume 6, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 233–236, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/6.3.233 Published: 01 September 1991
The museum as information utility
Traditionally, museums have focused their attentions on the past. Their preoccupation with the material remains of the past has made them object-orientated. This is reflected in the list of key functions of museums: to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, interpret; all are activities performed on museums’ artifacts or specimens. This introverted focus has engendered the belief that artifactual collections are the raison d’etre of museums, rather t…
African Highway
African Highway Get access African Highway. Sir Malcolm Watson. London: John Murray. 1953. pp. xxix, 294. Illustrations, maps, Index £3 3s. G. MACDONALD G. MACDONALD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 208, July 1953, Pages 251–252, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094158 Published: 01 July 1953
Malaria Control for Rural Populations
This article forms the concluding part of a lecture by the Director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, on the 24th July. Dr.Macdonald opened with a discussion on the present state of malaria research, details of which may be found in the Bibliography. His discussion mainly turned on the point whether children who are particularly susceptible should be allowed, by repeated infection to develop immunity in adult life. He himself was opposed…
The Roman Occupation of Britain
Reporting Client Violence
Much has been written about client violence against social workers; however, little attention has been given to reporting behavior of social workers who have been the target of such violence. The study discussed in this article documents the prevalence of client violence among a sample of social workers from a broad range of social work settings. It examines respondents' reasons for not reporting or for reporting client violence to management. A …
The Secularisation of Riverine Law in South-East Australia
The decline of religious beliefs and practices in the south-east of Australia is often read as a ‘loss’ of cultural meaning and practice. In this paper, I look at the significance of secularisation for laws associated with land ownership, arguing that it is in the practice of law that one sees distinct continuities, rather than in the religious vehicles in which they were once packaged. This implies that we need to understand the operation of law…
Death in life or life in death? Dementia’s ontological challenge
Is it possible to end one's life well with dementia? The perception of dementia as death brought into life flows from ideas about humanness embedded in medicine's Cartesian paradigm. Dementia as incurable brain disease exacerbates negativity. But the real impact of dementia is that it changes social relations: to live well with dementia requires a relational not Cartesian understanding of life. A relational ontology prioritizes social health: to …
Autonomous Selves in a Bureaucratised World
Different histories and ecologies separate the Mardu of the Western Desert from the Wiradjuri of rural New South Wales, yet both evidence a desire for a social autonomy grounded in the value both place on personal autonomy. This claim flies in the face of assumptions that distinctive intra-Aboriginal values and practices collapse in the undermining of the cosmological framework of the Dreaming. The Wiradjuri, although they stayed in country, coul…
Does ‘culture’ have ‘history’? Thinking about continuity and change in central New South Wales
How Canadians Communicate III
D a vid Tara s other factors and conditions to determine how we use and give meaning to popular culture.The book raises critical issues about our uses of myths and stereotypes, how we define beauty, how we deal with our darkest visions, the role of violence in society, how culture is used both to enforce and to push the boundaries of convention and social control and how we express our many identities.The hope is that Contexts of Popular Culture …
Who is the ‘human’ in ‘human rights’
(2013). Who is the ‘human’ in ‘human rights’? Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 19, Special Issue: Human Rights in Context: Culture, Power and Personhood, pp. 107-131
The Roman Occupation of Britain
Malaria Control for Rural Populations
This article forms the concluding part of a lecture by the Director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, on the 24th July. Dr.Macdonald opened with a discussion on the present state of malaria research, details of which may be found in the Bibliography. His discussion mainly turned on the point whether children who are particularly susceptible should be allowed, by repeated infection to develop immunity in adult life. He himself was opposed…
African Highway
African Highway Get access African Highway. Sir Malcolm Watson. London: John Murray. 1953. pp. xxix, 294. Illustrations, maps, Index £3 3s. G. MACDONALD G. MACDONALD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 208, July 1953, Pages 251–252, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094158 Published: 01 July 1953
Summary Report First International Conference on Healthy Lifestyles Leningrad, 12–14 December 1990
Report First International Conference on Healthy Lifestyles Leningrad, 12–14 December 1990 Get access G. MACDONALD G. MACDONALD This report was prepared in collaboration with WHO Regional Office for Europe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Promotion International, Volume 6, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 233–236, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/6.3.233 Published: 01 September 1991
The museum as information utility
Traditionally, museums have focused their attentions on the past. Their preoccupation with the material remains of the past has made them object-orientated. This is reflected in the list of key functions of museums: to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, interpret; all are activities performed on museums’ artifacts or specimens. This introverted focus has engendered the belief that artifactual collections are the raison d’etre of museums, rather t…
The Holocene closing of the ?ice-free? corridor
Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees, glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic environmental variability over the last 400 years. From 1840 to the mid-20th century, the Arctic warmed to the highest temperatures in four centuries. This warming ended the Little Ice Age in the Arctic and has caused retreats of glaciers, melting of permafrost and sea ice, and alteration of terrestrial and lake ecosys…
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
Part 1 Introduction: culture and diversity in Japan, Gaynor Macdonald and John C. Maher. Part 2 Historical and cultural frameworks: nationalism and cultural pluralism in modern Japan - Soetsu Yanagi and the Mingei Movement, M. William Steele the sociology of ethnocentrism in Japan, Hideichiro Nakano the Ainu - construction of an image, Richard Siddle the right stuff - towards environmental liguistics, John C. Maher and Charles Li. Part 3 Other vo…
Judge or Jury; Involving People in Decision-Making
Reporting Client Violence
Much has been written about client violence against social workers; however, little attention has been given to reporting behavior of social workers who have been the target of such violence. The study discussed in this article documents the prevalence of client violence among a sample of social workers from a broad range of social work settings. It examines respondents' reasons for not reporting or for reporting client violence to management. A …
Ethnography, Advocacy and Feminism
Ethnography may lie at the heart of anthropological methodology but its claims are contested. Feminist anthropologists in particular have debated the challenges a critical academic discipline poses for a consciously politicised positioning of the ethnographer, examining the constraints this might impose on the ethnographic project. Such dilemmas are compounded in the context of advocacy work. This critique of a feminist ethnography (Diane Bell's …
Photos in Wiradjuri Biscuit Tins
Tins, cardboard boxes and albums hold one of the most prized and jealously guarded of all Wiradjuri Aboriginal ‘material’ possessions, the family photos. They are used to tell and recall stories, introduce people to kin, as items of exchange and as important statements of identity and belonging in the spatial and temporal politics of kinship. In this ethnographic study of Indigenous photo collections in south‐east Australia, I argue that photos h…
"Painting the "Soft Knife
Harry Wedge is an artist from Cowra in central New South Wales. A Wiradjuri man, his people's history as colonial subjects has seen them confined to small residential reserves on the outskirts of country towns. Employed for over a century within the pastoral industry, Wiradjuri people have also suffered the brunt of its recent economic collapse. Harry started painting a decade ago in a highly distinctive "naïve" style. His paintings examine colon…
‘Tomorrow comes when tomorrow comes’
The authors have worked in Australian Aboriginal communities within the Wiradjuri area of central‐western New South Wales. Examining what appear to be distinctive Aboriginal approaches to time, we argue that these stem not from a different notion of time as such but, rather, from the relationship between the social and the self which places a distinctive value on the use and management of time. One way to access the dynamic between time and self …
Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling
Climate Reversal The climate and environment of the Arctic have changed drastically over the short course of modern observation. Kaufman et al. (p. 1236 ) synthesized 2000 years of proxy data from lakes above 60° N latitude with complementary ice core and tree ring records, to create a paleoclimate reconstruction for the Arctic with a 10-year resolution. A gradual cooling trend at the start of the record had reversed by the beginning of the 20th …
How Canadians Communicate III
D a vid Tara s other factors and conditions to determine how we use and give meaning to popular culture.The book raises critical issues about our uses of myths and stereotypes, how we define beauty, how we deal with our darkest visions, the role of violence in society, how culture is used both to enforce and to push the boundaries of convention and social control and how we express our many identities.The hope is that Contexts of Popular Culture …
Does ‘culture’ have ‘history’? Thinking about continuity and change in central New South Wales
The Secularisation of Riverine Law in South-East Australia
The decline of religious beliefs and practices in the south-east of Australia is often read as a ‘loss’ of cultural meaning and practice. In this paper, I look at the significance of secularisation for laws associated with land ownership, arguing that it is in the practice of law that one sees distinct continuities, rather than in the religious vehicles in which they were once packaged. This implies that we need to understand the operation of law…
Human Rights in Context
(2013). Human Rights in Context: Culture, Power and Personhood. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 19, Special Issue: Human Rights in Context: Culture, Power and Personhood, pp. 1-9
Who is the ‘human’ in ‘human rights’
(2013). Who is the ‘human’ in ‘human rights’? Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 19, Special Issue: Human Rights in Context: Culture, Power and Personhood, pp. 107-131
Autonomous Selves in a Bureaucratised World
Different histories and ecologies separate the Mardu of the Western Desert from the Wiradjuri of rural New South Wales, yet both evidence a desire for a social autonomy grounded in the value both place on personal autonomy. This claim flies in the face of assumptions that distinctive intra-Aboriginal values and practices collapse in the undermining of the cosmological framework of the Dreaming. The Wiradjuri, although they stayed in country, coul…
Death in life or life in death? Dementia’s ontological challenge
Is it possible to end one's life well with dementia? The perception of dementia as death brought into life flows from ideas about humanness embedded in medicine's Cartesian paradigm. Dementia as incurable brain disease exacerbates negativity. But the real impact of dementia is that it changes social relations: to live well with dementia requires a relational not Cartesian understanding of life. A relational ontology prioritizes social health: to …
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