Peggy Brock
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peggy Brock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peggy |
| FAMILY NAME | Brock |
| SIGNATURE | BROCK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Katharine Massam
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls: European Missionary Agendas in Australia." Australian Historical Studies, 50(2), pp. 267–268
Evangelism, Ethnography and Linguistics
This article considers the intersection of evangelism, ethnography and linguistics in the work of two missionaries living among Aboriginal communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carl Strehlow was one of several German missionaries working in central Australia in the 1890s and into the twentieth century. J. R. B. Love met Strehlow briefly in 1913, but did not become a fully committed missionary himself until the 1920s. T…
Jealous Missionaries on the P acific Northwest Coast of C anada
Most of our knowledge of missions and missionary interactions with the indigenous peoples they evangelised comes from the missionaries' own writings, mainly correspondence and reports to the home society. Rarely do we find an indigenous view of missionaries. In this article I will consider one of these unusual perspectives, the diary of a T simshian from the northwest coast of B ritish C olumbia, A rthur W ellington C lah, who became a C hristian…
Moveable Feasts
This article considers Tsimshian feasting activities from the 1860s to the turn of the century. It is informed by the remarkable diary of a Tsimshian, Arthur Wellington Clah. It takes up the analysis where Robert Grumet left it in his article in Ethnohistory in 1975. Clah's day-by-day account shows how support for feasting and the chiefly system it reinforced waxed and waned over forty years. For a time after a permanent missionary came to their …
Anthropology's Debt to Missionaries
Writing Aboriginal collective biography
It is generally supposed that Aborigines have been fighting a losing battle against invasion for the last 150 years in South Australia. They have succumbed to disease, violence (including wholesale slaughter in massacres), alienation of land, denigration of their culture or way of life, and alcoholism. On the whole they are viewed as passive victims, fringe-dwellers, at the bottom of the socio-economic heap. It is acknowledged that a few Aborigin…
Skirmishes in Aboriginal history
In late 2002 Keith W indschuttle
Two-way food
From earliest colonial encounters Aboriginal people supplemented bush foods with food rations issued by governments, missions and pastoralists. Over time rations became the primary source of food. Taking two central Australian missions as case studies I analyse the challenges facing both the providers of rations who wanted to encourage assimilation while preventing Aboriginal dependency; and the Arrernte and Pitjantjatjara/ Yangunytjatjara who tr…
Nakedness and Clothing in Early Encounters Between Aboriginal People of Central Australia, Missionaries and Anthropologists
The body and how it is covered and decorated is an important signifier within any society. Physical adornments communicate a wide range of information including age, status, gender and relative affluence. Members of a community have no difficulty reading each others appearance, but when members of two different societies come together in close physical proximity, it is not only their languages which are mutually incomprehensible, but their custom…
Eye Contact
Reviewed by: Eye Contact. Photographing Indigenous Australians by Jane Lydon Peggy Brock Eye Contact. Photographing Indigenous Australians. By Jane Lydon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. This is a well written book, intelligently conceived and well argued. It is theoretically sophisticated while remaining accessible. The title of the book is a little misleading as it suggests a wide focus of study, Photographing Indigenous Australians, w…
Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change
This book explores a range of societies in and around the Pacific and southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that encountered religions introduced from elsewhere, or fashioned their own responses to already established religious traditions. These changes observed through the responses of the receiving societies indicate that religious change is a creative dynamic, rather than a passive acceptance of new ideas, beliefs and pract…
Women and the White Man's God
Reviewed by: Women and the White Man’s God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field Peggy Brock Women and the White Man’s God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field. By Myra Rutherdale. Vancouver/Toronto: UBC Press, 2002. Myra Rutherdale uses the writings of women who worked on northern Anglican missions as the raw data for her research. They are obviously a rich source which provides valuable insights into the lives of married and …
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…
Two Indigenous Evangelists
Arthur Wellington Clah was a Tsimshian man on the Pacific north‐west coast of Canada, who encountered the missionary, William Duncan, as a young adult at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Simpson in the 1850s. Moses Tjalkabota was an Arrernte man in central Australia. He was a young boy when he first came into contact with Lutheran missionaries at Hermannsburg mission in the 1880s, and was baptized in 1890. Both these men became Christian evangelis…
Generational religious change among the Arrernte at Hermannsburg, central Australia
This paper traces the introduction of Christian ideas to the Arrernte at Hermannsburg and how Arrernte attitudes towards Christianity changed over a generation from the 1890s to the 1920s. It compares the first generation of Arrernte to encounter Christianity with their children's generation, a number of whom became Christian evangelists. Under the guidance of these evangelists many Arrernte were baptised. We consider why these evangelists succee…
Mission Encounters in the Colonial World
This paper considers various aspects of the interactions of missions and indigenous peoples in regions of Canada and Australia. An analysis of first encounters indicates that the introduction of Christianity was dependent on both evangelist and client population agreeing to a modus operandi for the mission. The structure and operation of the mission were determined by the pre‐existing indigenous society and the financial and personnel resources o…
Building Bridges
The Tsimshian of the Northwest Coast were a successful trading people who benefited materially from the maritime fur trade and the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort Simpson, British Columbia, In the early nineteenth century, authority among the outward looking, but status conscious, Tsimshian was established through warfare, trade, and customary practice. By the latter part of the century, communal politics was increasingly i…
Protecting colonial interests
(1997). Protecting colonial interests: Aborigines and criminal justice. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 21, Fatal shores, pp. 120-129
Pastoral Stations and Reserves in South and Central Australia, 1850s-1950s
The colonisation of South and Central Australia had a huge impact on the pre existing Aboriginal economy, with an inevitable movement from full Aboriginal involvement in their own economy to increasing participation in the non Aboriginal economy. These changes, which occurred in different parts of the region over more than a century, moved through three broad phases. First was the imposition of colonial control over Aboriginal lands and labour. S…
Outback Ghettos
Two-way food
From earliest colonial encounters Aboriginal people supplemented bush foods with food rations issued by governments, missions and pastoralists. Over time rations became the primary source of food. Taking two central Australian missions as case studies I analyse the challenges facing both the providers of rations who wanted to encourage assimilation while preventing Aboriginal dependency; and the Arrernte and Pitjantjatjara/ Yangunytjatjara who tr…
Two Indigenous Evangelists
Arthur Wellington Clah was a Tsimshian man on the Pacific north‐west coast of Canada, who encountered the missionary, William Duncan, as a young adult at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Simpson in the 1850s. Moses Tjalkabota was an Arrernte man in central Australia. He was a young boy when he first came into contact with Lutheran missionaries at Hermannsburg mission in the 1880s, and was baptized in 1890. Both these men became Christian evangelis…
Building Bridges
The Tsimshian of the Northwest Coast were a successful trading people who benefited materially from the maritime fur trade and the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort Simpson, British Columbia, In the early nineteenth century, authority among the outward looking, but status conscious, Tsimshian was established through warfare, trade, and customary practice. By the latter part of the century, communal politics was increasingly i…
Nakedness and Clothing in Early Encounters Between Aboriginal People of Central Australia, Missionaries and Anthropologists
The body and how it is covered and decorated is an important signifier within any society. Physical adornments communicate a wide range of information including age, status, gender and relative affluence. Members of a community have no difficulty reading each others appearance, but when members of two different societies come together in close physical proximity, it is not only their languages which are mutually incomprehensible, but their custom…
Mission Encounters in the Colonial World
This paper considers various aspects of the interactions of missions and indigenous peoples in regions of Canada and Australia. An analysis of first encounters indicates that the introduction of Christianity was dependent on both evangelist and client population agreeing to a modus operandi for the mission. The structure and operation of the mission were determined by the pre‐existing indigenous society and the financial and personnel resources o…
Protecting colonial interests
(1997). Protecting colonial interests: Aborigines and criminal justice. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 21, Fatal shores, pp. 120-129
Pastoral Stations and Reserves in South and Central Australia, 1850s-1950s
The colonisation of South and Central Australia had a huge impact on the pre existing Aboriginal economy, with an inevitable movement from full Aboriginal involvement in their own economy to increasing participation in the non Aboriginal economy. These changes, which occurred in different parts of the region over more than a century, moved through three broad phases. First was the imposition of colonial control over Aboriginal lands and labour. S…
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls: European Missionary Agendas in Australia." Australian Historical Studies, 50(2), pp. 267–268
Anthropology's Debt to Missionaries
Writing Aboriginal collective biography
It is generally supposed that Aborigines have been fighting a losing battle against invasion for the last 150 years in South Australia. They have succumbed to disease, violence (including wholesale slaughter in massacres), alienation of land, denigration of their culture or way of life, and alcoholism. On the whole they are viewed as passive victims, fringe-dwellers, at the bottom of the socio-economic heap. It is acknowledged that a few Aborigin…
Skirmishes in Aboriginal history
In late 2002 Keith W indschuttle
Outback Ghettos
Pastoral Stations and Reserves in South and Central Australia, 1850s-1950s
The colonisation of South and Central Australia had a huge impact on the pre existing Aboriginal economy, with an inevitable movement from full Aboriginal involvement in their own economy to increasing participation in the non Aboriginal economy. These changes, which occurred in different parts of the region over more than a century, moved through three broad phases. First was the imposition of colonial control over Aboriginal lands and labour. S…
Protecting colonial interests
(1997). Protecting colonial interests: Aborigines and criminal justice. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 21, Fatal shores, pp. 120-129
Mission Encounters in the Colonial World
This paper considers various aspects of the interactions of missions and indigenous peoples in regions of Canada and Australia. An analysis of first encounters indicates that the introduction of Christianity was dependent on both evangelist and client population agreeing to a modus operandi for the mission. The structure and operation of the mission were determined by the pre‐existing indigenous society and the financial and personnel resources o…
Building Bridges
The Tsimshian of the Northwest Coast were a successful trading people who benefited materially from the maritime fur trade and the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort Simpson, British Columbia, In the early nineteenth century, authority among the outward looking, but status conscious, Tsimshian was established through warfare, trade, and customary practice. By the latter part of the century, communal politics was increasingly i…
Generational religious change among the Arrernte at Hermannsburg, central Australia
This paper traces the introduction of Christian ideas to the Arrernte at Hermannsburg and how Arrernte attitudes towards Christianity changed over a generation from the 1890s to the 1920s. It compares the first generation of Arrernte to encounter Christianity with their children's generation, a number of whom became Christian evangelists. Under the guidance of these evangelists many Arrernte were baptised. We consider why these evangelists succee…
Two Indigenous Evangelists
Arthur Wellington Clah was a Tsimshian man on the Pacific north‐west coast of Canada, who encountered the missionary, William Duncan, as a young adult at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Simpson in the 1850s. Moses Tjalkabota was an Arrernte man in central Australia. He was a young boy when he first came into contact with Lutheran missionaries at Hermannsburg mission in the 1880s, and was baptized in 1890. Both these men became Christian evangelis…
Women and the White Man's God
Reviewed by: Women and the White Man’s God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field Peggy Brock Women and the White Man’s God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field. By Myra Rutherdale. Vancouver/Toronto: UBC Press, 2002. Myra Rutherdale uses the writings of women who worked on northern Anglican missions as the raw data for her research. They are obviously a rich source which provides valuable insights into the lives of married and …
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…
Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change
This book explores a range of societies in and around the Pacific and southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that encountered religions introduced from elsewhere, or fashioned their own responses to already established religious traditions. These changes observed through the responses of the receiving societies indicate that religious change is a creative dynamic, rather than a passive acceptance of new ideas, beliefs and pract…
Eye Contact
Reviewed by: Eye Contact. Photographing Indigenous Australians by Jane Lydon Peggy Brock Eye Contact. Photographing Indigenous Australians. By Jane Lydon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. This is a well written book, intelligently conceived and well argued. It is theoretically sophisticated while remaining accessible. The title of the book is a little misleading as it suggests a wide focus of study, Photographing Indigenous Australians, w…
Nakedness and Clothing in Early Encounters Between Aboriginal People of Central Australia, Missionaries and Anthropologists
The body and how it is covered and decorated is an important signifier within any society. Physical adornments communicate a wide range of information including age, status, gender and relative affluence. Members of a community have no difficulty reading each others appearance, but when members of two different societies come together in close physical proximity, it is not only their languages which are mutually incomprehensible, but their custom…
Two-way food
From earliest colonial encounters Aboriginal people supplemented bush foods with food rations issued by governments, missions and pastoralists. Over time rations became the primary source of food. Taking two central Australian missions as case studies I analyse the challenges facing both the providers of rations who wanted to encourage assimilation while preventing Aboriginal dependency; and the Arrernte and Pitjantjatjara/ Yangunytjatjara who tr…
Anthropology's Debt to Missionaries
Writing Aboriginal collective biography
It is generally supposed that Aborigines have been fighting a losing battle against invasion for the last 150 years in South Australia. They have succumbed to disease, violence (including wholesale slaughter in massacres), alienation of land, denigration of their culture or way of life, and alcoholism. On the whole they are viewed as passive victims, fringe-dwellers, at the bottom of the socio-economic heap. It is acknowledged that a few Aborigin…
Skirmishes in Aboriginal history
In late 2002 Keith W indschuttle
Moveable Feasts
This article considers Tsimshian feasting activities from the 1860s to the turn of the century. It is informed by the remarkable diary of a Tsimshian, Arthur Wellington Clah. It takes up the analysis where Robert Grumet left it in his article in Ethnohistory in 1975. Clah's day-by-day account shows how support for feasting and the chiefly system it reinforced waxed and waned over forty years. For a time after a permanent missionary came to their …
Jealous Missionaries on the P acific Northwest Coast of C anada
Most of our knowledge of missions and missionary interactions with the indigenous peoples they evangelised comes from the missionaries' own writings, mainly correspondence and reports to the home society. Rarely do we find an indigenous view of missionaries. In this article I will consider one of these unusual perspectives, the diary of a T simshian from the northwest coast of B ritish C olumbia, A rthur W ellington C lah, who became a C hristian…
Evangelism, Ethnography and Linguistics
This article considers the intersection of evangelism, ethnography and linguistics in the work of two missionaries living among Aboriginal communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carl Strehlow was one of several German missionaries working in central Australia in the 1890s and into the twentieth century. J. R. B. Love met Strehlow briefly in 1913, but did not become a fully committed missionary himself until the 1920s. T…
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls: European Missionary Agendas in Australia." Australian Historical Studies, 50(2), pp. 267–268
Katharine Massam
Sociology (15 works) · History (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Australian History and Society (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works)