Raymond C Kerkhove
Biographic Data
| ID | 215336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond C Kerkhove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerkhove |
| SIGNATURE | KERKHOVE R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6128-6917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Alice Duncan-Kemp's 'Warrior Lodges' and Kooroongoora
Addressing recent critiques concerning the accuracy of Alice Duncan-Kemp's accounts of the Channel Country, this essay evaluates her extraordinary statements concerning the structure of the Kooroongoora millenarian movement and what she called 'warrior lodges'. The essay considers the implications of these descriptions for our current understandings of how First Nations groups organised militant resistance against inroads of settlement. After def…
Araucaria bidwillii genomics suggest Indigenous Peoples broadened translocation practices in response to settler colonialism
Retracing past anthropogenic dispersal of culturally important taxa offers insights to the biogeographic history of species, as well as the history of the people who interacted with them. Bunya Pine ( Araucaria bidwillii Hook.) is a culturally and spiritually significant conifer tree for several Indigenous groups in eastern Australia. Sharing the edible nuts and attending Bunya gatherings is an important way for these groups to maintain their cul…
Evidence of external contact between the Pacific Basin and the east coast of Australia during the Holocene
The prospect that First Nations Australians were in contact with cultures beyond Australia prior to European arrival has fascinated theorists for over a century. Early views tended to see Aboriginal culture as too primitive to have independently developed ‘higher level’ cultural traits. Once this view was abandoned, further enquiry into external contact largely ceased. However, it has been gradually recognised that transformations occurred within…
The Re-Invention of the Goori Cultural Landscape
Cet article analyse la carte, tracée par les auteurs et les auteures, de la géographie aborigène de St Lucia et de Long Pocket, deux banlieues riveraines de Brisbane, en amont du quartier central des affaires, où sont situés deux campus de l’Université du Queensland. La carte sert de prisme à l’observation plus générale de la société aborigène des Goori au début du 19e siècle. Elle a été produite par deux chercheurs aborigènes et un anthropologue…
Smoke signalling resistance
This essay reconstructs defensive/offensive mechanisms of Aboriginal communication networks and presents historical examples of their application as a means of resistance during Australia’s frontier wars. The principal focus is on smoke-signalling systems, especially in Queensland
Nervous nation
The frontier of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Australia was a place in which colonists routinely lived in fear of retaliation by the Aboriginal peoples whose traditional lands they had forcibly dispossessed. It has been suggested this concern manifested itself in domestic architecture, in both active and passive defensive strategies designed to afford protection against various forms of potential attack. Yet there remains a lack of substantive…
Hidden in plain sight
Ethnohistoric accounts indicate that the people of Australia's Channel Country engaged in activities rarely recorded elsewhere on the continent, including food storage, aquaculture and possible cultivation, yet there has been little archaeological fieldwork to verify these accounts. Here, the authors report on a collaborative research project initiated by the Mithaka people addressing this lack of archaeological investigation. The results show th…
Australian settler bush huts and Indigenous bark-strippers
This article considers the history of the Australian bush hut and its common building material: bark sheeting. It compares this with traditional Aboriginal bark sheeting and cladding, and considers the role of Aboriginal ‘bark strippers’ and Aboriginal builders in establishing salient features of the bush hut. The main focus is the Queensland region up to the 1870s
Indigenous Australian laws of war
Studies in Australian history have lamentably neglected the military traditions of First Australians prior to European contact. This is due largely to a combination of academic and social bigotry, and loss of Indigenous knowledge after settlement. Thankfully, the situation is beginning to change, in no small part due to the growing literature surrounding the Frontier Wars of Australia. All aspects of Indigenous customs and norms are now beginning…
Charting two centuries of transformation in a coastal social-ecological system
Oyster reef ecosystems used to form significant components of many temperate and subtropical inshore coastal systems but have suffered declines globally, with a concurrent loss of services. The early timing of many of these changes makes it difficult to determine restoration targets which consider interdecadal timeframes, community values and shifted baselines. On the Australian continent, however, the transition from Indigenous (Aboriginal) to W…
Aboriginal camps as urban foundations? Evidence from southern Queensland
Musgrave Park could hardly
The timing and use of offshore islands in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Province, Queensland
Aboriginal 'resistance war' tactics - 'The Black War' of southern Queensland
Frontier violence is now an accepted chapter of Australian history. Indigenous resistance is central to this story, yet little examined as a military phenomenon (Connor 2004). Indigenous military tactics and objectives are more often assumed than analysed.Building on Laurie's and Cilento's contentions (1959) that an alliance of Aboriginal groups staged a 'Black War' across southern Queensland between the 1840s and 1860s, the author seeks evidence…
Approaches to monitoring and managing Indigenous Australian coastal cultural heritage places
Australia's coastal zone contains a diverse range of cultural heritage places. They are, however, negatively impacted by a multitude of natural and cultural factors. Currently there are few robust site monitoring programmes that focus on identifying the causes and directions of change in the coastal zone and the impacts that these changes have on heritage places. With case studies from Queensland, we outline and evaluate a number of potential app…
Signs of Grace
Indigenous fish traps and weirs of Queensland
A Queensland state-wide review of coastal and inland fish traps and weirs is undertaken. More than 179 sites are described. For coastal Queensland, it is demonstrated that traps with multiple pens are common in the Torres Strait and at a limited number of locations in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Most traps and weirs south of Torres Strait and the Gulf are isolated structures, with traps in most cases having a single pen. Walls of traps are …
Another Face of Empire
Towards a Multi-Faith History of the Sunshine Coast
TBC
Unstructured Networking in a Charisma-based New Religious Movement
The relatively unstructured beginnings of many charisma-based new religions, and their rapid transformation into structured institutions is a process that has attracted many studies since original forays into this field by Max Weber. Although several scholars - notably Luther Gerlach and Virginia Hine – have identified more diffuse modes of religious organization amongst new religions (usually ‘networks’ of one sort or another), there has been li…
Indigenous fish traps and weirs of Queensland
A Queensland state-wide review of coastal and inland fish traps and weirs is undertaken. More than 179 sites are described. For coastal Queensland, it is demonstrated that traps with multiple pens are common in the Torres Strait and at a limited number of locations in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Most traps and weirs south of Torres Strait and the Gulf are isolated structures, with traps in most cases having a single pen. Walls of traps are …
Hidden in plain sight
Ethnohistoric accounts indicate that the people of Australia's Channel Country engaged in activities rarely recorded elsewhere on the continent, including food storage, aquaculture and possible cultivation, yet there has been little archaeological fieldwork to verify these accounts. Here, the authors report on a collaborative research project initiated by the Mithaka people addressing this lack of archaeological investigation. The results show th…
Nervous nation
The frontier of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Australia was a place in which colonists routinely lived in fear of retaliation by the Aboriginal peoples whose traditional lands they had forcibly dispossessed. It has been suggested this concern manifested itself in domestic architecture, in both active and passive defensive strategies designed to afford protection against various forms of potential attack. Yet there remains a lack of substantive…
Charting two centuries of transformation in a coastal social-ecological system
Oyster reef ecosystems used to form significant components of many temperate and subtropical inshore coastal systems but have suffered declines globally, with a concurrent loss of services. The early timing of many of these changes makes it difficult to determine restoration targets which consider interdecadal timeframes, community values and shifted baselines. On the Australian continent, however, the transition from Indigenous (Aboriginal) to W…
Aboriginal camps as urban foundations? Evidence from southern Queensland
Musgrave Park could hardly
Indigenous Australian laws of war
Studies in Australian history have lamentably neglected the military traditions of First Australians prior to European contact. This is due largely to a combination of academic and social bigotry, and loss of Indigenous knowledge after settlement. Thankfully, the situation is beginning to change, in no small part due to the growing literature surrounding the Frontier Wars of Australia. All aspects of Indigenous customs and norms are now beginning…
Towards a Multi-Faith History of the Sunshine Coast
TBC
Unstructured Networking in a Charisma-based New Religious Movement
The relatively unstructured beginnings of many charisma-based new religions, and their rapid transformation into structured institutions is a process that has attracted many studies since original forays into this field by Max Weber. Although several scholars - notably Luther Gerlach and Virginia Hine – have identified more diffuse modes of religious organization amongst new religions (usually ‘networks’ of one sort or another), there has been li…
Another Face of Empire
Signs of Grace
Indigenous fish traps and weirs of Queensland
A Queensland state-wide review of coastal and inland fish traps and weirs is undertaken. More than 179 sites are described. For coastal Queensland, it is demonstrated that traps with multiple pens are common in the Torres Strait and at a limited number of locations in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Most traps and weirs south of Torres Strait and the Gulf are isolated structures, with traps in most cases having a single pen. Walls of traps are …
Approaches to monitoring and managing Indigenous Australian coastal cultural heritage places
Australia's coastal zone contains a diverse range of cultural heritage places. They are, however, negatively impacted by a multitude of natural and cultural factors. Currently there are few robust site monitoring programmes that focus on identifying the causes and directions of change in the coastal zone and the impacts that these changes have on heritage places. With case studies from Queensland, we outline and evaluate a number of potential app…
The timing and use of offshore islands in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Province, Queensland
Aboriginal 'resistance war' tactics - 'The Black War' of southern Queensland
Frontier violence is now an accepted chapter of Australian history. Indigenous resistance is central to this story, yet little examined as a military phenomenon (Connor 2004). Indigenous military tactics and objectives are more often assumed than analysed.Building on Laurie's and Cilento's contentions (1959) that an alliance of Aboriginal groups staged a 'Black War' across southern Queensland between the 1840s and 1860s, the author seeks evidence…
Aboriginal camps as urban foundations? Evidence from southern Queensland
Musgrave Park could hardly
Australian settler bush huts and Indigenous bark-strippers
This article considers the history of the Australian bush hut and its common building material: bark sheeting. It compares this with traditional Aboriginal bark sheeting and cladding, and considers the role of Aboriginal ‘bark strippers’ and Aboriginal builders in establishing salient features of the bush hut. The main focus is the Queensland region up to the 1870s
Indigenous Australian laws of war
Studies in Australian history have lamentably neglected the military traditions of First Australians prior to European contact. This is due largely to a combination of academic and social bigotry, and loss of Indigenous knowledge after settlement. Thankfully, the situation is beginning to change, in no small part due to the growing literature surrounding the Frontier Wars of Australia. All aspects of Indigenous customs and norms are now beginning…
Charting two centuries of transformation in a coastal social-ecological system
Oyster reef ecosystems used to form significant components of many temperate and subtropical inshore coastal systems but have suffered declines globally, with a concurrent loss of services. The early timing of many of these changes makes it difficult to determine restoration targets which consider interdecadal timeframes, community values and shifted baselines. On the Australian continent, however, the transition from Indigenous (Aboriginal) to W…
Smoke signalling resistance
This essay reconstructs defensive/offensive mechanisms of Aboriginal communication networks and presents historical examples of their application as a means of resistance during Australia’s frontier wars. The principal focus is on smoke-signalling systems, especially in Queensland
Nervous nation
The frontier of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Australia was a place in which colonists routinely lived in fear of retaliation by the Aboriginal peoples whose traditional lands they had forcibly dispossessed. It has been suggested this concern manifested itself in domestic architecture, in both active and passive defensive strategies designed to afford protection against various forms of potential attack. Yet there remains a lack of substantive…
Hidden in plain sight
Ethnohistoric accounts indicate that the people of Australia's Channel Country engaged in activities rarely recorded elsewhere on the continent, including food storage, aquaculture and possible cultivation, yet there has been little archaeological fieldwork to verify these accounts. Here, the authors report on a collaborative research project initiated by the Mithaka people addressing this lack of archaeological investigation. The results show th…
Evidence of external contact between the Pacific Basin and the east coast of Australia during the Holocene
The prospect that First Nations Australians were in contact with cultures beyond Australia prior to European arrival has fascinated theorists for over a century. Early views tended to see Aboriginal culture as too primitive to have independently developed ‘higher level’ cultural traits. Once this view was abandoned, further enquiry into external contact largely ceased. However, it has been gradually recognised that transformations occurred within…
The Re-Invention of the Goori Cultural Landscape
Cet article analyse la carte, tracée par les auteurs et les auteures, de la géographie aborigène de St Lucia et de Long Pocket, deux banlieues riveraines de Brisbane, en amont du quartier central des affaires, où sont situés deux campus de l’Université du Queensland. La carte sert de prisme à l’observation plus générale de la société aborigène des Goori au début du 19e siècle. Elle a été produite par deux chercheurs aborigènes et un anthropologue…
Araucaria bidwillii genomics suggest Indigenous Peoples broadened translocation practices in response to settler colonialism
Retracing past anthropogenic dispersal of culturally important taxa offers insights to the biogeographic history of species, as well as the history of the people who interacted with them. Bunya Pine ( Araucaria bidwillii Hook.) is a culturally and spiritually significant conifer tree for several Indigenous groups in eastern Australia. Sharing the edible nuts and attending Bunya gatherings is an important way for these groups to maintain their cul…
Alice Duncan-Kemp's 'Warrior Lodges' and Kooroongoora
Addressing recent critiques concerning the accuracy of Alice Duncan-Kemp's accounts of the Channel Country, this essay evaluates her extraordinary statements concerning the structure of the Kooroongoora millenarian movement and what she called 'warrior lodges'. The essay considers the implications of these descriptions for our current understandings of how First Nations groups organised militant resistance against inroads of settlement. After def…
History (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 works)