David S Trigger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 89287 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David S Trigger |
| NOMBRES | David S |
| APELLIDO | Trigger |
| FIRMA | TRIGGER D S |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5981-3909 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 287 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Land claim legacies, native title, and the rigours of Indigenous politics
My studies in the Northern Territory/Queensland border region of Australia's Gulf Country indicate continuing tense negotiations among Waanyi/Garawa people concerning the inclusion/exclusion of particular persons as traditional owners and recipients of benefits from various economic ventures. Despite commonly expressed Indigenous views that stress the importance of sustaining continuity of traditional ‘law’, this points to the importance of addre…
Introduction to ‘Anthropology and change over the land rights era’
This collection of papers arose from a conversation among several of us contributors with long-term experience of working as anthropologists in land and native title claims. We felt that we and others with such involvement had written relatively little about our observations at this intersection of anthropology and law, but that we all had a sense of issues and changes throughout the ‘land rights era’. By that we mean the last 50 years since the …
Anthropology in Australian Indigenous Legal Cases
Reflecting on several decades of my applied research, expert witness roles and a forensic methodology, this article addresses the application of anthropological studies in Australian legal cases concerned with various aspects of Indigenous customary law. In the context of traditional land claims, cultural heritage assessments and native title, both the achievements and challenges for anthropological inquiries are canvassed. Against arguments from…
The White-man calls me Jack’
Genealogies that demonstrate a continuous historical lineage play a critical role for native title evidence as well as contemporary negotiations concerning Indigenous identity. The complexities of this genealogical research are compounded in regions with lengthy histories of disruption from traditional lands and contestation concerning the forebears of Indigenous individuals, families and wider groups. This article presents a case study that intr…
Obituary
Contesting Ideologies of Natural Resource Development in British Columbia, Canada
The ideological struggle between pro-development sentiments and environmentalist challenges to them is a complex mix of consciously articulated beliefs and commonsense assumptions about what land isfor and how it should be managed. The paper presents an ethnographic approach to documenting expressions of this intellectual contest in contemporary British Columbia. I address the question of how pro-development and pro-wilderness views seek to estab…
Distinguished lecture
Can native title, across remote, rural and urban settings, complement and overlap with current and future Australian senses of belonging? This is to explore a form of cultural coexistence that is potentially in tension with a sharp and mutually exclusive categorical distinction between those who embrace Indigenous identity and others. Can such cultural coexistence reinforce legal and economic achievements of land justice for the Indigenous minori…
Aboriginal cultural awareness training for mine employees
Place, Indigeneity, and Identity in Australia's Gulf Country
Land and location are central to the identities of those known colloquially as Blackfellas and Whitefellas in the Gulf region of northern Australia. Entwined spiritual and material features of "country" are significant in the ways indigenous people experience locations, encompassing intimate connections of persons in place for those with the greatest knowledge of classical cultural traditions. In contrast, for long-term residents descended from s…
‘Nothing never change’
Gulf Country Aboriginal people perceive water as an integral part of the broader cultural landscape rather than a conceptually distinct element. Customary connection to and ownership of water therefore intersects with links to contiguous areas known in the anthropological literature as ‘estates’ and in local parlance as ‘countries’. For many Aboriginal people into the present, the ‘law’ which underlies this system of ‘countries’ was laid down in …
Negotiating belonging
This article focuses on human-plant relations, drawing on ethnographic research from northern Australia's Gulf Country to address the concept of indigeneity. Just as the identities of 'Indigenous' and 'non-Indigenous' people in this region are contextual and at times contested according to the vernacular categories of 'Blackfellas', 'Whitefellas', and 'Yellafellas', so too the issue of what 'belongs' in the natural world is negotiated through amb…
Ethics and politics
Aboriginal engagement and agreement-making with a rapidly developing resource industry
The onshore development of coal seam gas (CSG) is expanding rapidly in Australia. The industry's interaction with Aboriginal people has entailed 35 Indigenous Land Use Agreements in the State of Queensland in the period 2010–2013. Though the mining sector and, to some extent, conventional oil and gas development, are the source of much of our knowledge about agreement making in extractive industries, CSG extraction presents distinctive challenges…
Tourism as theatre
This article explores the social and cultural production of indigeneity in a wildlife sanctuary on the Australian Gold Coast. We note that the human and animal characters that form the displays of the sanctuary work towards the assemblage of a largely consistent underlying theme. The latter reproduces commensurability between two main figures associated with Australian settler history, namely the country's pre-colonial indigenous species of anima…
The politics of indigeneity, identity and representation in literature from north Australia's Gulf Country
The Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novels Plains of Promise, Carpentaria and The Swan Book have prompted scholars and critics towards enthusiastic comparisons with the ground-breaking work of a range of international writers. With her novels all set partly in the remote Gulf Country of north Australia, Wright's work arises from intellectual and political commitment to Indigenous people, and aspires to the idea of a distinctive ‘Aboriginal sove…
Environmentalism, Culture, Ethnography
Such is the ubiquity of environmentalism as a significant community experience throughout the world that most anthropologists will nowadays find themselves attending to the concerns their respondents have for the environments which surround and sustain them. In this article, we take stock of some of the issues addressed, and the achievements realized, by environmental anthropology to date. First, we emphasize that there is already a literature wh…
Responses to David Trigger's Article Anthropology Pure and Profane
Revelatory moments in fieldwork
This essay prefaces a collection on revelatory moments of fieldwork engagement. Drawing upon brief vignettes from our own research experiences, we argue for the methodological significance of memorable events encountered in ethnographic studies. In addressing this relational production of knowledge, we are particularly interested in the role of emotion, discomfort and surprise in 'fieldwork' as understood in anthropology. The case materials illus…
Native Title Research in Australian Anthropology
Anthropology's involvement with Australian Indigenous people seeking to obtain legal rights, particularly in the context of the Native Title Act, has been subject to considerable critique both within and outside of the academy. The collected papers in this volume provide a constructive case for best approaches in this applied anthropological research, given the apparent constraints of the legal environment and the necessity to retain professional…
Anthropology Pure and Profane
Is there a view that academic anthropology operates or belongs in a 'sacred' space that is distinguishable from applied research occupying a less pure, intellectually inferior and more morally profane domain? Certainly, in my experience of some thirty plus years of work in Australian Aboriginal studies, such a distinction has at times been both promoted and contested vigorously. I outline my reading of the recent debate focusing particularly on w…
Christianity, cultural change and the negotiation of rights in land and sea
Various aspects of Christian belief and practice have been documented as significant across Aboriginal Australia. In recent years, many communities have been involved in seeking to achieve traditional rights in land and sea as recognised in Australian law. Asserting and proving these rights entails demonstrating continuity of traditional law and custom since the establishment of British sovereignty. While legal discourse indicates that this does …
Ecological Restoration in Australia
In the relatively young postsettler society of Australia, restoring nature to a pre-European ideal prompts a range of responses. We consider first the case of farmers in the southwest who reinterpret restorationist ideals as commensurate with continued productive land use. A local native species, the iconic malleefowl, is construed as a flagship for revaluing nature in a way that remains consistent with farmers' interests and sense of identity. F…
Restored Nature, Familiar Culture
How are preferences for “native” and “introduced” species of plants and animals given expression in Australian cities? Given the nation's predominantly European cultural heritage, how do urban Australians articulate multiple desires for living environments encountered in everyday life? In examining the cases of inner city parks, backyards, and more general views about flora and fauna appropriate for the city, the paper considers a range of deeply…
Negotiating Indigeneity
Defining “indigeneity” has recently been approached with renewed vigor. While the field can involve quite passionate commitment to advocacy among scholars, theoretical clarity is needed in understanding just who might be thought of as indigenous, and the reasons why this is so. Does “indigeneity” make sense only if it is understood in relation to the “non-indigenous,” and if so, how useful is the latter category across societies and nations with …
Sustaining fictions
Determinants of placebo effects and placebo response can be considered from multiple intrinsic and extrinsic perspectives. Intrinsic factors may influence the patient and the clinician/researcher. Patient expectations and previous experiences are considered two of the major intrinsic determinants of placebo response. Other patient determinants include the neural systems under treatment/study, situational factors and reactions to the environment, …
Indigeneity, ferality, and what ‘belongs’ in the Australian bush
This article investigates responses among Aboriginal people in Australia to animals and plants introduced through the process of British colonization. While there is some rejection of exotic species as emblematic of European dispossession, the article explores cases where certain fauna and flora have been embraced intellectually within Aboriginal cultural traditions. The broader discussion canvasses links in Australia between ideas of ‘nativeness…
Revelatory moments in fieldwork
This essay prefaces a collection on revelatory moments of fieldwork engagement. Drawing upon brief vignettes from our own research experiences, we argue for the methodological significance of memorable events encountered in ethnographic studies. In addressing this relational production of knowledge, we are particularly interested in the role of emotion, discomfort and surprise in 'fieldwork' as understood in anthropology. The case materials illus…
Ecological restoration, cultural preferences and the negotiation of ‘nativeness’ in Australia
Blackfellas and Whitefellas
In presenting data on social relations between Aborigines and Whites at a north Australian Aboriginal settlement, this paper develops the concepts of domain and social closure as important in the study of power and race-relations. Previous Australian studies in this area have not treated adequately, the substantive nature and theoretical significance of spatial and social separation between Aborigines and Whites. I argue that Aborigines retain so…
Negotiating Indigeneity
Defining “indigeneity” has recently been approached with renewed vigor. While the field can involve quite passionate commitment to advocacy among scholars, theoretical clarity is needed in understanding just who might be thought of as indigenous, and the reasons why this is so. Does “indigeneity” make sense only if it is understood in relation to the “non-indigenous,” and if so, how useful is the latter category across societies and nations with …
Negotiating belonging
This article focuses on human-plant relations, drawing on ethnographic research from northern Australia's Gulf Country to address the concept of indigeneity. Just as the identities of 'Indigenous' and 'non-Indigenous' people in this region are contextual and at times contested according to the vernacular categories of 'Blackfellas', 'Whitefellas', and 'Yellafellas', so too the issue of what 'belongs' in the natural world is negotiated through amb…
Anthropology Pure and Profane
Is there a view that academic anthropology operates or belongs in a 'sacred' space that is distinguishable from applied research occupying a less pure, intellectually inferior and more morally profane domain? Certainly, in my experience of some thirty plus years of work in Australian Aboriginal studies, such a distinction has at times been both promoted and contested vigorously. I outline my reading of the recent debate focusing particularly on w…
Place, Indigeneity, and Identity in Australia's Gulf Country
Land and location are central to the identities of those known colloquially as Blackfellas and Whitefellas in the Gulf region of northern Australia. Entwined spiritual and material features of "country" are significant in the ways indigenous people experience locations, encompassing intimate connections of persons in place for those with the greatest knowledge of classical cultural traditions. In contrast, for long-term residents descended from s…
Mining, Landscape and the Culture of Development Ideology in Australia
Racial ideologies in Australia's Gulf Country
Ecological Restoration in Australia
In the relatively young postsettler society of Australia, restoring nature to a pre-European ideal prompts a range of responses. We consider first the case of farmers in the southwest who reinterpret restorationist ideals as commensurate with continued productive land use. A local native species, the iconic malleefowl, is construed as a flagship for revaluing nature in a way that remains consistent with farmers' interests and sense of identity. F…
Restored Nature, Familiar Culture
How are preferences for “native” and “introduced” species of plants and animals given expression in Australian cities? Given the nation's predominantly European cultural heritage, how do urban Australians articulate multiple desires for living environments encountered in everyday life? In examining the cases of inner city parks, backyards, and more general views about flora and fauna appropriate for the city, the paper considers a range of deeply…
Aboriginal engagement and agreement-making with a rapidly developing resource industry
The onshore development of coal seam gas (CSG) is expanding rapidly in Australia. The industry's interaction with Aboriginal people has entailed 35 Indigenous Land Use Agreements in the State of Queensland in the period 2010–2013. Though the mining sector and, to some extent, conventional oil and gas development, are the source of much of our knowledge about agreement making in extractive industries, CSG extraction presents distinctive challenges…
Everyone's Agreed, the West is All You Need
A survey of newspaper coverage and talkback radio programmes in 1984, 1988 and 1990 regarding Aboriginal issues is conducted to explore the ideology and pattern of representation of Aboriginality by the media. Results highlight that media content on Aborigines in the sampled periods tend to mostly portray them in a negative light and as a threat to law and order
Contesting Ideologies of Natural Resource Development in British Columbia, Canada
The ideological struggle between pro-development sentiments and environmentalist challenges to them is a complex mix of consciously articulated beliefs and commonsense assumptions about what land isfor and how it should be managed. The paper presents an ethnographic approach to documenting expressions of this intellectual contest in contemporary British Columbia. I address the question of how pro-development and pro-wilderness views seek to estab…
Aboriginal cultural awareness training for mine employees
Native Title Research in Australian Anthropology
Anthropology's involvement with Australian Indigenous people seeking to obtain legal rights, particularly in the context of the Native Title Act, has been subject to considerable critique both within and outside of the academy. The collected papers in this volume provide a constructive case for best approaches in this applied anthropological research, given the apparent constraints of the legal environment and the necessity to retain professional…
Equality and hierarchy in aboriginal political life at Doomadgee, Northwest Queensland
This paper is concerned with Aboriginal political life at Doomadgee, a remote Settlement located in far north-west Queensland. The data indicate the centrality of three major theoretical issues: material inequality and class situation; the operation of authority; and status relations. In terms of the literature drawn on in analysis of these issues, the discussion below is concerned with aspects of the sociology of domination and stratification (o…
Tourism as theatre
This article explores the social and cultural production of indigeneity in a wildlife sanctuary on the Australian Gold Coast. We note that the human and animal characters that form the displays of the sanctuary work towards the assemblage of a largely consistent underlying theme. The latter reproduces commensurability between two main figures associated with Australian settler history, namely the country's pre-colonial indigenous species of anima…
Language, Culture and Science
This article discusses the work of George Seddon as a significant Australian intellectual whose writing on postcolonial settler-descendant relations with land and nature is a major contribution to academic and public life. Seddon's originality lies partly in his bridging knowledge and expertise in both the humanities and sciences. However, while there is a reliance upon factual data drawn from geology, botany and zoology, Seddon's analyses of lan…
Calling the Station Home
Calling the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealand's High Country. Michele D. Dominy. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. 299 pp
Obituary
The politics of indigeneity, identity and representation in literature from north Australia's Gulf Country
The Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novels Plains of Promise, Carpentaria and The Swan Book have prompted scholars and critics towards enthusiastic comparisons with the ground-breaking work of a range of international writers. With her novels all set partly in the remote Gulf Country of north Australia, Wright's work arises from intellectual and political commitment to Indigenous people, and aspires to the idea of a distinctive ‘Aboriginal sove…
A Recent Phase of Aboriginal Occupation in Lawn Hill Gorge
The use of ethnography in Australian archaeology has become an accepted device for the formulation of arguments to assist archaeological interpretation. The 'ethnographic background' forms a chapter for almost every archaeological thesis and many of the articles produced in the Australian archaeological 'trade journals' relate archaeology to ethnography in some way. One interesting and paradoxical aspect of Australian archaeology is the overwhelm…
Areal growth in the human fetal parietal bone
The areal growth of the human fetal parietal bone is described using 51 dissected right parietal bones of Japanese fetuses ranging from the fifth month to term. Their shadows were taken on printing paper and analyzed by a sonic digitizer. The absolute growth of the projected area of the fetal parietal bones progresses at a fairly constant rate during the latter half of the fetal period, despite some deceleration in the 9–10th month. By allometric…
Languages, Linguistic Groups and Status Relations at Doomadgee, an Aboriginal Settlement in North‐west Queensland, Australia
Equality and hierarchy in aboriginal political life at Doomadgee, Northwest Queensland
This paper is concerned with Aboriginal political life at Doomadgee, a remote Settlement located in far north-west Queensland. The data indicate the centrality of three major theoretical issues: material inequality and class situation; the operation of authority; and status relations. In terms of the literature drawn on in analysis of these issues, the discussion below is concerned with aspects of the sociology of domination and stratification (o…
A Recent Phase of Aboriginal Occupation in Lawn Hill Gorge
The use of ethnography in Australian archaeology has become an accepted device for the formulation of arguments to assist archaeological interpretation. The 'ethnographic background' forms a chapter for almost every archaeological thesis and many of the articles produced in the Australian archaeological 'trade journals' relate archaeology to ethnography in some way. One interesting and paradoxical aspect of Australian archaeology is the overwhelm…
Racial ideologies in Australia's Gulf Country
Whitefella Comin
Whitefella Comin
Whitefella Comin
Everyone's Agreed, the West is All You Need
A survey of newspaper coverage and talkback radio programmes in 1984, 1988 and 1990 regarding Aboriginal issues is conducted to explore the ideology and pattern of representation of Aboriginality by the media. Results highlight that media content on Aborigines in the sampled periods tend to mostly portray them in a negative light and as a threat to law and order
Mining, Landscape and the Culture of Development Ideology in Australia
Citizenship and Indigenous Responses to Mining in the Gulf Country
Certain literature on notions of citizenship in societies such as Australia posits a sense of collective commitment to the nation as crucial to being a citizen. A good example is Robert Birrell's argument that: Citizenship involves a social contract in which members of a society accept mutual rights and obligations towards each other. This contract is unlikely to flourish if members do not feel a sense of affinity towards one another. In this sen…
Nature, Work and ‘the Environment’
Contesting discourses about natural resource development present a rich arena for ethnographic investigation. This paper focuses on interviews with environmental activists and forest industry defenders to document a struggle over the meaning of land, work and nature in the southwest of Western Australia. While Green activists condemn what they regard as crimes against nature, this moral challenge to rural communities from urban‐based environmenta…
Language, Culture and Science
This article discusses the work of George Seddon as a significant Australian intellectual whose writing on postcolonial settler-descendant relations with land and nature is a major contribution to academic and public life. Seddon's originality lies partly in his bridging knowledge and expertise in both the humanities and sciences. However, while there is a reliance upon factual data drawn from geology, botany and zoology, Seddon's analyses of lan…
Calling the Station Home
Calling the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealand's High Country. Michele D. Dominy. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. 299 pp
Forests as Spiritually Significant Places
The spiritual significance of forests is explored, based on interviews with people involved in disputes that led to the signing of the Western Australian Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) in 1999. Included are reflections from individuals involved in forestry, tourism, farming, and in the environmental conservation movement. Although the conflict between these groups has been emphasised in previous accounts of the RFA process, this analysis focuses…
Ecological restoration, cultural preferences and the negotiation of ‘nativeness’ in Australia
Indigeneity, ferality, and what ‘belongs’ in the Australian bush
This article investigates responses among Aboriginal people in Australia to animals and plants introduced through the process of British colonization. While there is some rejection of exotic species as emblematic of European dispossession, the article explores cases where certain fauna and flora have been embraced intellectually within Aboriginal cultural traditions. The broader discussion canvasses links in Australia between ideas of ‘nativeness…
Sustaining fictions
Determinants of placebo effects and placebo response can be considered from multiple intrinsic and extrinsic perspectives. Intrinsic factors may influence the patient and the clinician/researcher. Patient expectations and previous experiences are considered two of the major intrinsic determinants of placebo response. Other patient determinants include the neural systems under treatment/study, situational factors and reactions to the environment, …
Blackfellas and Whitefellas
In presenting data on social relations between Aborigines and Whites at a north Australian Aboriginal settlement, this paper develops the concepts of domain and social closure as important in the study of power and race-relations. Previous Australian studies in this area have not treated adequately, the substantive nature and theoretical significance of spatial and social separation between Aborigines and Whites. I argue that Aborigines retain so…
Christianity, cultural change and the negotiation of rights in land and sea
Various aspects of Christian belief and practice have been documented as significant across Aboriginal Australia. In recent years, many communities have been involved in seeking to achieve traditional rights in land and sea as recognised in Australian law. Asserting and proving these rights entails demonstrating continuity of traditional law and custom since the establishment of British sovereignty. While legal discourse indicates that this does …
Ecological Restoration in Australia
In the relatively young postsettler society of Australia, restoring nature to a pre-European ideal prompts a range of responses. We consider first the case of farmers in the southwest who reinterpret restorationist ideals as commensurate with continued productive land use. A local native species, the iconic malleefowl, is construed as a flagship for revaluing nature in a way that remains consistent with farmers' interests and sense of identity. F…
Restored Nature, Familiar Culture
How are preferences for “native” and “introduced” species of plants and animals given expression in Australian cities? Given the nation's predominantly European cultural heritage, how do urban Australians articulate multiple desires for living environments encountered in everyday life? In examining the cases of inner city parks, backyards, and more general views about flora and fauna appropriate for the city, the paper considers a range of deeply…
Negotiating Indigeneity
Defining “indigeneity” has recently been approached with renewed vigor. While the field can involve quite passionate commitment to advocacy among scholars, theoretical clarity is needed in understanding just who might be thought of as indigenous, and the reasons why this is so. Does “indigeneity” make sense only if it is understood in relation to the “non-indigenous,” and if so, how useful is the latter category across societies and nations with …
Native Title Research in Australian Anthropology
Anthropology's involvement with Australian Indigenous people seeking to obtain legal rights, particularly in the context of the Native Title Act, has been subject to considerable critique both within and outside of the academy. The collected papers in this volume provide a constructive case for best approaches in this applied anthropological research, given the apparent constraints of the legal environment and the necessity to retain professional…
Anthropology Pure and Profane
Is there a view that academic anthropology operates or belongs in a 'sacred' space that is distinguishable from applied research occupying a less pure, intellectually inferior and more morally profane domain? Certainly, in my experience of some thirty plus years of work in Australian Aboriginal studies, such a distinction has at times been both promoted and contested vigorously. I outline my reading of the recent debate focusing particularly on w…
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