Myrna Tonkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 152312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myrna Tonkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myrna |
| FAMILY NAME | Tonkinson |
| SIGNATURE | TONKINSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Growing Up in Central Australia
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities – roughly 1,200 across…
Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia
Contents: Series Editors' Preface: The transformative processes of life and death, Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Introduction: indigenous ways of death in Australia, Victoria Burbank, Katie Glaskin, Yasmine Musharbash and Myrna Tonkinson 'Sorry business is Yapa way': Warlpiri mortuary rituals as embodied practice, Yasmine Musharbash Solidarity in shared loss: death-related observances among the Martu of the Western desert, Myrna Tonkinso…
Sisterhood or Aboriginal servitude? Black women and White women on the Australian frontier
In "'And the lubras are ladies now'", Diane Barwick states that one consequence of the decision, taken in 1860 by the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines, to force settlement of Aborigines on mission and government stations, was that Aboriginal women developed close and equal relationships with White women.1 Barwick described relationships on the mission stations, contrasting the situation with that found in other parts of Victoria t…
Obituary for Ronald Murray Bemdt (1916–1990)
after a protracted battle with cancer. Together with Catherine Bemdt, his wife and fellow anthropologist, he did more anthropological research in a greater number of Aboriginal communities over a longer time span than any other Australianist, as well as pioneering research in the eastern Highlands of New Guinea (1951-53). This partnership has been one of the most abiding and scholastically productive in anthropology, and the Berndts' prodigious o…
The Sweetness of the Fig
Sisterhood or Aboriginal servitude? Black women and White women on the Australian frontier
In "'And the lubras are ladies now'", Diane Barwick states that one consequence of the decision, taken in 1860 by the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines, to force settlement of Aborigines on mission and government stations, was that Aboriginal women developed close and equal relationships with White women.1 Barwick described relationships on the mission stations, contrasting the situation with that found in other parts of Victoria t…
Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia
Contents: Series Editors' Preface: The transformative processes of life and death, Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Introduction: indigenous ways of death in Australia, Victoria Burbank, Katie Glaskin, Yasmine Musharbash and Myrna Tonkinson 'Sorry business is Yapa way': Warlpiri mortuary rituals as embodied practice, Yasmine Musharbash Solidarity in shared loss: death-related observances among the Martu of the Western desert, Myrna Tonkinso…
The Sweetness of the Fig
Sisterhood or Aboriginal servitude? Black women and White women on the Australian frontier
In "'And the lubras are ladies now'", Diane Barwick states that one consequence of the decision, taken in 1860 by the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines, to force settlement of Aborigines on mission and government stations, was that Aboriginal women developed close and equal relationships with White women.1 Barwick described relationships on the mission stations, contrasting the situation with that found in other parts of Victoria t…
Obituary for Ronald Murray Bemdt (1916–1990)
after a protracted battle with cancer. Together with Catherine Bemdt, his wife and fellow anthropologist, he did more anthropological research in a greater number of Aboriginal communities over a longer time span than any other Australianist, as well as pioneering research in the eastern Highlands of New Guinea (1951-53). This partnership has been one of the most abiding and scholastically productive in anthropology, and the Berndts' prodigious o…
Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia
Contents: Series Editors' Preface: The transformative processes of life and death, Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Introduction: indigenous ways of death in Australia, Victoria Burbank, Katie Glaskin, Yasmine Musharbash and Myrna Tonkinson 'Sorry business is Yapa way': Warlpiri mortuary rituals as embodied practice, Yasmine Musharbash Solidarity in shared loss: death-related observances among the Martu of the Western desert, Myrna Tonkinso…
Growing Up in Central Australia
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities – roughly 1,200 across…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (2 works) · Project commissioning (2 works)