Gillian Cowlishaw
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3580962 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gillian Cowlishaw |
| NOMBRES | Gillian |
| APELLIDO | Cowlishaw |
| FIRMA | COWLISHAW G |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 250 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
First Cow , a film directed by Kelly Reichardt, based on the novel The Half-Life by Jonathan Raymond
"First Cow, a film directed by Kelly Reichardt, based on the novel The Half-Life by Jonathan Raymond." History Australia, 17(4), pp. 757–758
Professor Gillian Cowlishaw's opening address at the Inaugural Behrouz Boochani Award event, held at the Australian Anthropological Society conference in Canberra on 4 December 2019
Tunnel Vision
Part One of Tunnel Vision discussed the limited scope of ethnographic attention in Australia in the late 20th century, and the discipline's reluctance to take up post‐colonial ideas that were influential elsewhere. In Part Two I examine the challenges faced by apolitical classicism since the 1970s, and the continuing resistance of historical and political perspectives in Indigenist anthropology, despite some individual attempts to blaze new trail…
Tunnel Vision
This essay is based on my conviction that Australian ethnography's narrow purview and anthropology's theoretical limitations need exploring and explaining. While internationally the discipline developed new sites, new theoretical fields and new political ideas in the post‐colonial era from around 1970, classicism continued to dominate research in Australia. New forms of Aboriginal social life and politics created by changing ‘post‐colonial’ condi…
Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia - By Åse Ottosson
Auditing ethics committees
Who's Upsetting Who? Strangeness, Morality, Nostalgia, Pleasure
What is the relationship between negative sentiments towards different kinds of people and the actual difficulties posed by people with different habits and practices living close by one another? Such difficulties are a space of fear and silence because, in this multicultural postmodernworld, we are supposed to celebrate difference in all its manifestations. It is this orthodoxy I want to examine. Let me first note that difficult differences of s…
Race Matters
While Australian Aboriginal people live in an unprecedented time of formal equality, their conditions in life are still starkly different from those of most other Australians. And recognition of the rights of Australia's indigenous people is not forthcoming. This diverse collection of articles explores the double burden of racial discrimination and the denial of indigenous rights that Australian Aboriginal people continue to carry. 'Race matters'…
Introduction Locating an Australia‐wide Anthropology
Ethnographic research concerning Aboriginal social life in the earlier settled areas of the continent has formed a minor strand within the body of Australian anthropological research. Yet these studies speak directly to the current national discourse concerning distressing conditions in many Aboriginal communities in the north. The kind of anthropology generated in South East Australia has always sought to do more than simply depict particular co…
Growing up in central Australia
Culture and the absurd
This essay proposes that a fundamental arbitrariness and absurdity at the heart of culture becomes visible in times of radical social change. As the Australian nation attempts to celebrate and revive Aboriginal Culture, and institutions call upon culture to remedy Aboriginal ills, Aboriginal traditions are also being held responsible for present distress and social disorder. However, some Aboriginal people are also developing new relationships wi…
Mythologising culture
This second part of Mythologising Culture examines the responses of Aboriginal people in western Sydney to the valorizing of Aboriginality by the Australian nation. As Aboriginal culture has become the object of restitution, regret and reconciliation, Aboriginal people are being called upon to represent and produce Culture in iconic forms such as painting, dancing and other performances and representations. These activities, often depicted as rem…
Arrernte present Arrernte past
Culture and the Absurd
Mythologising culture
In western Sydney, I found an extreme version of what I propose is a national Aboriginal mythopoeia, that is, a powerful system of beliefs and practices in relation to Aboriginal people and culture. A reified Aboriginal culture is promoted at institutional sites and in reconciliation discourses that evokes the presence of something precious and mysterious that must be re‐read into local Aboriginal people, but which assiduously avoids their actual…
The Determinants Of Fertility Among Australian Aborigines
This paper concerns the determinants of fertility of precontact Australian Aborigine women. Emphasis is placed on social organization as well as the physical environment and considerations of adaptation. The key to understanding the fertility of Australian Aborigines is the structural tension evident in male-female relations. Ethnographic data on hunter-gatherers fertility indicate a low fertility rate, e.g. 4.7-5.2 live births/woman for the Kung…
Development, heroism and the indigenous life project
The Everyday Language of White Racism
The Ethics of Apology
■ On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the 'stolen generations': those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions administered by government and Christian churches - a practice that lasted from before the First World War to the early 1970s. This apology was significant, in the words of Rudd, for the 'healing' of t…
Introduction
On Being Awarded an Australian Professorial Fellowship
On ‘getting it wrong‘ 1
This essay asks how the remaking of Australian history in the last quarter of the twentieth century has affected the subjectivities and social relations of people who do not make history but who must don new truths about their own past. Aboriginal people, as well as Anglo‐Australians, had to shift their consciousness as the new topic, ambiguously called ‘Aboriginal history’, burgeoned within Australian historiography. Of most significance to me i…
Cultures of complaint
This article was inspired by ethnographic observation of interaction, arguments and ideologies in Bourke, New South Wales, and the contrast with the nation's public debates. Whereas the prevailing national orthodoxy accords Aborigines the status of injured victims of history, local Whites claim present injury from these same victims. The former diagnosis tends towards a dismissal of rural whitefellas' complaints as 'redneck' racism, but the moral…
Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race.
Disappointing Indigenous People
Research Article| January 01 2003 Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help Gillian Cowlishaw Gillian Cowlishaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 103-126. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gillian Cowlishaw; Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help. Public Culture …
Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race.
Colour, Culture and the Aboriginalists
Culture and the absurd
This essay proposes that a fundamental arbitrariness and absurdity at the heart of culture becomes visible in times of radical social change. As the Australian nation attempts to celebrate and revive Aboriginal Culture, and institutions call upon culture to remedy Aboriginal ills, Aboriginal traditions are also being held responsible for present distress and social disorder. However, some Aboriginal people are also developing new relationships wi…
Disappointing Indigenous People
Research Article| January 01 2003 Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help Gillian Cowlishaw Gillian Cowlishaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 103-126. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gillian Cowlishaw; Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help. Public Culture …
Helping Anthropologists
Censoring Race in 'Post-colonial' Anthropology
This article is about an intellectual practice - the rejection of the analysis of race as an operative principle in the social world in favour of a focus on hybrid forms and flexible categories. While grounded in a worthy fear of reinforcing racial categories, there is a squeamishness here that reveals a fear of the body, and of what dealing with actual bodies might expose. Despite some intellectual labour to the contrary, this deeply embedded ch…
Feminism and anthropology
Henrietta L. Moore, Feminism and Anthropology (Polity Press), Cambridge, 1988. Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (University of California Press), Berkeley CA, 1988
Studying aborigines
(1992). Studying aborigines: Changing canons in anthropology and history. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 16, Power, Knowledge and Aborigines, pp. 20-31
Black, White or Brindle
The Ethics of Apology
■ On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the 'stolen generations': those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions administered by government and Christian churches - a practice that lasted from before the First World War to the early 1970s. This apology was significant, in the words of Rudd, for the 'healing' of t…
Socialisation and Subordination Among Australian Aborigines
Race at Work
Cet article est tire de ma premiere experience de terrain au nord de l'Australie et interprete cette experience a travers des reflections ulterieures. Je soutiens que l'ethnographie, en Australie au moins, est imbriquee de facon inextricable dans les relations raciales, a la fois parce qu'elle a son origine a la frontiere raciale de la societe australienne et parce que l'ethnographie est construite dans le domaine culturel des Blancs. Le potentie…
On ‘getting it wrong‘ 1
This essay asks how the remaking of Australian history in the last quarter of the twentieth century has affected the subjectivities and social relations of people who do not make history but who must don new truths about their own past. Aboriginal people, as well as Anglo‐Australians, had to shift their consciousness as the new topic, ambiguously called ‘Aboriginal history’, burgeoned within Australian historiography. Of most significance to me i…
Cultures of complaint
This article was inspired by ethnographic observation of interaction, arguments and ideologies in Bourke, New South Wales, and the contrast with the nation's public debates. Whereas the prevailing national orthodoxy accords Aborigines the status of injured victims of history, local Whites claim present injury from these same victims. The former diagnosis tends towards a dismissal of rural whitefellas' complaints as 'redneck' racism, but the moral…
The Determinants Of Fertility Among Australian Aborigines
This paper concerns the determinants of fertility of precontact Australian Aborigine women. Emphasis is placed on social organization as well as the physical environment and considerations of adaptation. The key to understanding the fertility of Australian Aborigines is the structural tension evident in male-female relations. Ethnographic data on hunter-gatherers fertility indicate a low fertility rate, e.g. 4.7-5.2 live births/woman for the Kung…
Development, heroism and the indigenous life project
Auditing ethics committees
Who's Upsetting Who? Strangeness, Morality, Nostalgia, Pleasure
What is the relationship between negative sentiments towards different kinds of people and the actual difficulties posed by people with different habits and practices living close by one another? Such difficulties are a space of fear and silence because, in this multicultural postmodernworld, we are supposed to celebrate difference in all its manifestations. It is this orthodoxy I want to examine. Let me first note that difficult differences of s…
Did The Earth Move For You? The anti-Mabl Debate
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Aboriginal Adolescence
Infanticide in Aboriginal Australia
Socialisation and Subordination Among Australian Aborigines
Colour, Culture and the Aboriginalists
Black, White or Brindle
Black, White or Brindle
Part 1 The pastoral invasion: from rags to riches and riches to rags. Part 2 Introduction to the present: the structure of Brindleton the dominant culture beneath the surface racism
Social/Cultural Anthropology
On Vicky Kirby versus Marilyn Strathern vers(us)
Feminism and anthropology
Henrietta L. Moore, Feminism and Anthropology (Polity Press), Cambridge, 1988. Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (University of California Press), Berkeley CA, 1988
Helping Anthropologists
Aboriginal Adolescence
Studying aborigines
(1992). Studying aborigines: Changing canons in anthropology and history. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 16, Power, Knowledge and Aborigines, pp. 20-31
Roger Milliss. Waterloo Creek
Introduction
This paper seeks to show why there is a need to theorise race relations as a feature of white Australia's culture and as the context of Aboriginal lives. The violent drama of racial politics as glimpsed on the public media and as experienced by black communities all over the country, demands analytic attention. Anthropologists were once the experts on race, before the field lost its legitimacy. If we turn our attention to exposing the forms of co…
Introduction
Did The Earth Move For You? The anti‐Mabl Debate 1
This paper engages with the arguments which circulated in the public domain in opposition to the recognition of native title, and sets out the ‘truths’ they constructed concerning the nature and position of Aborigines within the Australian nation. These ‘truths’ rely on a nescience in the public domain of Aboriginal cultural forms and of the actuality of contemporary race relations. It is argued that the assumptions about cultural and racial doma…
Did The Earth Move For You? The anti-Mabl Debate
Introduction
Eric Michaels
Eric Michaels. Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons. Theory Out of Bounds, 3. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xiix. 240 pp
Race at Work
Cet article est tire de ma premiere experience de terrain au nord de l'Australie et interprete cette experience a travers des reflections ulterieures. Je soutiens que l'ethnographie, en Australie au moins, est imbriquee de facon inextricable dans les relations raciales, a la fois parce qu'elle a son origine a la frontiere raciale de la societe australienne et parce que l'ethnographie est construite dans le domaine culturel des Blancs. Le potentie…
Erasing Culture and Race
This paper is an ethnographic exploration of the process heralded by the progressive policies of Aboriginal self‐determination. The discourse of self‐determination was based on anti‐racist ideals and a break with the past. However, state officials did not divest themselves of their cultural baggage, and proceeded by trial and error to implement a program of creating autonomous Aboriginal communities for people of whom they had no knowledge. In at…
Censoring Race in 'Post-colonial' Anthropology
This article is about an intellectual practice - the rejection of the analysis of race as an operative principle in the social world in favour of a focus on hybrid forms and flexible categories. While grounded in a worthy fear of reinforcing racial categories, there is a squeamishness here that reveals a fear of the body, and of what dealing with actual bodies might expose. Despite some intellectual labour to the contrary, this deeply embedded ch…
Rednecks, Eggheads, and Blackfellas
Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas
This book brings the reader to the lives of people on a cattle station in Australia''s Northern Territory. The author makes arguments about race relations, showing how the policy of self-determination for Aboriginal people has had results.'
Disappointing Indigenous People
Research Article| January 01 2003 Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help Gillian Cowlishaw Gillian Cowlishaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 103-126. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gillian Cowlishaw; Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help. Public Culture …
Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race.
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