Helen Gardner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3597181 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Helen Gardner |
| NOMBRES | Helen |
| APELLIDO | Gardner |
| FIRMA | GARDNER H |
| AFILIACIONES | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3717-0535 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 11 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1610 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Seventh State and the Barnes Dance
The most momentous change to the political make-up of the Australian state was undoubtedly the independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975. But decolonisation was not a foregone conclusion until late in the 1960s. Through the mid-1960s politicians on both sides of the Torres Strait considered the option that the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (TPNG) might become the seventh state of Australia. The option had global and domestic implications and e…
Wan Solwara
The Moat of Oblivion
From the decolonisation of Papua New Guinea in 1975, Australian historiography has focused on the continent and Tasmania, excluding the former territories/y north of the Torres Strait and denying their constitutional place in the nation's past. The forgetting of Papua New Guinea in Australia is the result of the continental consciousness of Australians, enhanced by the new nationalism of the last fifty years. Other sources of forgetting include t…
Gathering for God
Kinship acknowledged and denied
In the second half of the 19th century, anthropology rode the coat-tails of modernity, adopting new printing technologies, following new travel networks, and gaining increasing access to Indigenous people as colonialism spread and new policies were developed to contain and control people in settler-colonial states. The early innovator in kinship studies Lewis Henry Morgan and his two greatest proteges, Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt, working resp…
Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani
Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani: The Story of Rabaul." The Journal of Pacific History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Conversations on the Frontier
While anthropological archives tend to be named after the collector of the material, they are often the product of conversations and long-term engagements with informants. Focusing on the concept of the dialogic, this article contends that these materials ought to be equally conceived as co-productions, often made via complex, asymmetrical researcher/researched engagements. We specifically home in on the dialogic traces left in the archive of the…
Exhibitions
Melanesia
This is an important book that deserves a wide readership. It combines the excellent production values of an art book ‒ there are 306 exquisitely reproduced images ‒ with incisive analysis and very collaborative research practices
Before the Field
The introduction to this special issue argues for a reappraisal of colonial anthropology in the broader historiography of British anthropology. It challenges the continuation of the centre–periphery model that has positioned colonial ethnographers and their Indigenous authorities as awkward, peripheral figures in the history of the discipline, and posits that, while the evolutionist tomes of the 19th century are now of purely historical value, th…
Decolonisation and the Pacific
Since the foundation of The Journal of Pacific History in 1966, the study of decolonisation in the Pacific has never been far from the historical limelight, but the critical approaches, perspective
The Genealogy of the Genealogical Method
This article explores the origins of the genealogical method of kinship collection and the remembering and forgetting of Indigenous and settler contributors to early anthropology. While W. H. R. Rivers’ development of the genealogical method from the expedition to the Torres Strait in 1898 has iconic status as a foundation moment in the history of anthropology, there is irrefutable evidence that a genealogical method for kinship collection was em…
Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howittâ s Kamilaroi and Kurnai
Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern A
Praying for Independence
The establishment of the Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides in 1948 as an independent church was viewed by some participants as a step towards the independence of the nation, which occurred some 32 years later. This paper argues that the church was slow to promote an anticolonial perspective through the 1950s, though, as Indigenous clergy took on more senior roles in the church, there was a corresponding increase in political consciousness. …
Decolonisation in Melanesia
Decolonisation in Melanesia'. It explores the case studies of Papua New
The Descent of Morgan in Australia
Morgan had two extraordinary disciples in Lorimer Fison and Alfred Howitt in Australia. They were inspired by Morgan's kinship schedule and were profoundly engaged in the method and theory of the collection of kinship data and its interpretation. Fison began using the schedule in Fiji in 1869. Soon after his first contact with Howitt, in 1873, they changed the method of collection of kinship terminologies. This paper traces the shift from tabulat…
Books
There is no more imposing figure in the history of Australian anthropology than W.E.H. ('Bill') Stanner (1905-1981). While some of his contemporaries produced more ethnography, none matched his skill and eloquence in describing the life-worlds of Aboriginal people. While others of his age were just as closely involved in arguing for the defensibility of Aboriginal society, none did so with such convincing passion. With these two legacies in mind,…
From Site to Text
Missions were not simply sites of modernity, they were also the source of key data for the modernist theories of human progress. The idea that so called “primitive peoples” provided a window to the origins of human institutions seemed axiomatic to nineteenth-century theorists of human society who sought evidence for these ideas from settlers, administrators and particularly missionaries. The 1870s and 1880s were the high point of missionary engag…
‘By the facts we add to our store’
The formal study of kinship was introduced to the South Pacific Islands and the Australian colonies by Methodist missionary Lorimer Fison who distributed schedules and collected kinship data from around the region in collaboration with the founder of Anthropology in America, Lewis Henry Morgan. This article is a sequel to H. Gardner, 2008 ‘The origins of kinship in Oceania’, Oceania , 78:2, 137–150. It traces Lorimer Fison's return to the Austral…
The ‘Faculty of Faith’
In his influential Account of the English Colony in New South Wales (1804:354), the deputy judge-advocate David Collins (1756-1810) dismissed claims by an 'eminent divine, that no country has yet been discovered where some trace of religion was not to be found' and pronounced the Aborigines of Port Jackson free of any trace of a religious state or knowledge: 'It is certain, that they do not worship either sun, moon, or star; neither have they res…
The Origin of Kinship in Oceania
This article investigates the importance of Oceania in the early study of kinship. It examines the tensions between evidence and analysis from the Pacific Islands in the development of Lewis Henry Morgan's theory of evolving kinship forms. While other sources from the Pacific islands are investigated it is focused particularly on the correspondence between Morgan and Lorimer Fison, Methodist missionary and key figure in the spread of kinship sche…
Books
This book makes me wonder why Australian \nhistorians have so readily agreed to \na history that starts at 1788. Perhaps the \nFirst Fleet's entertaining publishing enterprises \nhave been too seductive. Whereas \nhistorians may doubt that it is possible \nto write history without archival word \nmiddens, archaeologists doubt that one \ncan write without material discoveries. \nSources and methodological expertise \nhave created a major chasm bet…
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
New Heaven and New Earth’
The idea that 19th-century Europeans and Islanders faced each other across virtually impassable linguistic and cultural boundaries has been a model for Pacific ethnohistory and can, perhaps, be traced in part to the Sapir–Whorf theory of linguistic incommensurability. Based on a case study concerning the translation of the Aneityum [Anejom] bible in Southern Vanuatu in the mid-19th century, the article considers whether the engagement between Isl…
Selected prose
John Donne
John Donne
Perceptions of Family
This article builds on research into child-related perceptions of family when foster care has occurred (Gardner, 2004). It compares each adult participant’s retrospective childhood family representation with the representation they constructed of their adult family. It presents a quasi-longitudinal perspective on ways in which perceptions of family developed as the participants matured. The 39 adults who had been fostered as children, provided a …
Conversations on the Frontier
While anthropological archives tend to be named after the collector of the material, they are often the product of conversations and long-term engagements with informants. Focusing on the concept of the dialogic, this article contends that these materials ought to be equally conceived as co-productions, often made via complex, asymmetrical researcher/researched engagements. We specifically home in on the dialogic traces left in the archive of the…
Praying for Independence
The establishment of the Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides in 1948 as an independent church was viewed by some participants as a step towards the independence of the nation, which occurred some 32 years later. This paper argues that the church was slow to promote an anticolonial perspective through the 1950s, though, as Indigenous clergy took on more senior roles in the church, there was a corresponding increase in political consciousness. …
Decolonisation in Melanesia
Decolonisation in Melanesia'. It explores the case studies of Papua New
The Descent of Morgan in Australia
Morgan had two extraordinary disciples in Lorimer Fison and Alfred Howitt in Australia. They were inspired by Morgan's kinship schedule and were profoundly engaged in the method and theory of the collection of kinship data and its interpretation. Fison began using the schedule in Fiji in 1869. Soon after his first contact with Howitt, in 1873, they changed the method of collection of kinship terminologies. This paper traces the shift from tabulat…
New Heaven and New Earth’
The idea that 19th-century Europeans and Islanders faced each other across virtually impassable linguistic and cultural boundaries has been a model for Pacific ethnohistory and can, perhaps, be traced in part to the Sapir–Whorf theory of linguistic incommensurability. Based on a case study concerning the translation of the Aneityum [Anejom] bible in Southern Vanuatu in the mid-19th century, the article considers whether the engagement between Isl…
Perceptions of Family
This article is the first of two drawn from the same study and describes two sets of data on perceptions of family: (a) those held by 43 children who were in long-term family foster care at the time of the study, and (b) retrospective recollections of perceptions of childhood family held by 39 adults who had been in foster care as children. Children completed a representation of current and ideal family using the Kvebaek Family Sculpture Techniqu…
The Seventh State and the Barnes Dance
The most momentous change to the political make-up of the Australian state was undoubtedly the independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975. But decolonisation was not a foregone conclusion until late in the 1960s. Through the mid-1960s politicians on both sides of the Torres Strait considered the option that the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (TPNG) might become the seventh state of Australia. The option had global and domestic implications and e…
The Moat of Oblivion
From the decolonisation of Papua New Guinea in 1975, Australian historiography has focused on the continent and Tasmania, excluding the former territories/y north of the Torres Strait and denying their constitutional place in the nation's past. The forgetting of Papua New Guinea in Australia is the result of the continental consciousness of Australians, enhanced by the new nationalism of the last fifty years. Other sources of forgetting include t…
From Site to Text
Missions were not simply sites of modernity, they were also the source of key data for the modernist theories of human progress. The idea that so called “primitive peoples” provided a window to the origins of human institutions seemed axiomatic to nineteenth-century theorists of human society who sought evidence for these ideas from settlers, administrators and particularly missionaries. The 1870s and 1880s were the high point of missionary engag…
Photography and Christian Mission
In 1875, Methodist George Brown arrived in the Bismarck Archipelago to establish the New Britain Mission. Based in the Duke of York Islands, Brown's territory covered New Ireland and the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain. The mission was one of the first to be photographed from its inception. The Australian Museum holds 96 plates from the first five years of the mission. Brown's photographs are a visual record of conditions and peoples of the time…
Pseudo-Martyr
Witchcraft by a Picture
Biathanatos
"Biathanatos" published on by null.
The Way of the Materialist
Latin Poems
John Donne
The Academic Study of English literature 1
John Donne
Selected Prose
The landscapes of Eliot's Poetry1
Latin Poems
"Latin Poems" published on by null.
John Donne
Divine Poems
In Defence of Imagination
Some Reflections on the House of Busyrane
Journal Article SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE HOUSE OF BUSYRANE Get access HELEN GARDNER HELEN GARDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume XXXIV, Issue 136, November 1983, Pages 403–413, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/XXXIV.136.403 Published: 01 November 1983
Perceptions of Family
This article builds on research into child-related perceptions of family when foster care has occurred (Gardner, 2004). It compares each adult participant’s retrospective childhood family representation with the representation they constructed of their adult family. It presents a quasi-longitudinal perspective on ways in which perceptions of family developed as the participants matured. The 39 adults who had been fostered as children, provided a …
Perceptions of Family
This article is the first of two drawn from the same study and describes two sets of data on perceptions of family: (a) those held by 43 children who were in long-term family foster care at the time of the study, and (b) retrospective recollections of perceptions of childhood family held by 39 adults who had been in foster care as children. Children completed a representation of current and ideal family using the Kvebaek Family Sculpture Techniqu…
Books
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangle Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 464. $49.95 cloth. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Pp. 274. US$50 paper. The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 206. $37.95 paper. The Italians in Australia. By Gianfranco Cresciani. Cam…
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
New Heaven and New Earth’
The idea that 19th-century Europeans and Islanders faced each other across virtually impassable linguistic and cultural boundaries has been a model for Pacific ethnohistory and can, perhaps, be traced in part to the Sapir–Whorf theory of linguistic incommensurability. Based on a case study concerning the translation of the Aneityum [Anejom] bible in Southern Vanuatu in the mid-19th century, the article considers whether the engagement between Isl…
Photography and Christian Mission
In 1875, Methodist George Brown arrived in the Bismarck Archipelago to establish the New Britain Mission. Based in the Duke of York Islands, Brown's territory covered New Ireland and the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain. The mission was one of the first to be photographed from its inception. The Australian Museum holds 96 plates from the first five years of the mission. Brown's photographs are a visual record of conditions and peoples of the time…
Books
This book makes me wonder why Australian \nhistorians have so readily agreed to \na history that starts at 1788. Perhaps the \nFirst Fleet's entertaining publishing enterprises \nhave been too seductive. Whereas \nhistorians may doubt that it is possible \nto write history without archival word \nmiddens, archaeologists doubt that one \ncan write without material discoveries. \nSources and methodological expertise \nhave created a major chasm bet…
The ‘Faculty of Faith’
In his influential Account of the English Colony in New South Wales (1804:354), the deputy judge-advocate David Collins (1756-1810) dismissed claims by an 'eminent divine, that no country has yet been discovered where some trace of religion was not to be found' and pronounced the Aborigines of Port Jackson free of any trace of a religious state or knowledge: 'It is certain, that they do not worship either sun, moon, or star; neither have they res…
The Origin of Kinship in Oceania
This article investigates the importance of Oceania in the early study of kinship. It examines the tensions between evidence and analysis from the Pacific Islands in the development of Lewis Henry Morgan's theory of evolving kinship forms. While other sources from the Pacific islands are investigated it is focused particularly on the correspondence between Morgan and Lorimer Fison, Methodist missionary and key figure in the spread of kinship sche…
‘By the facts we add to our store’
The formal study of kinship was introduced to the South Pacific Islands and the Australian colonies by Methodist missionary Lorimer Fison who distributed schedules and collected kinship data from around the region in collaboration with the founder of Anthropology in America, Lewis Henry Morgan. This article is a sequel to H. Gardner, 2008 ‘The origins of kinship in Oceania’, Oceania , 78:2, 137–150. It traces Lorimer Fison's return to the Austral…
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