Joanna Sassoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Sassoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Sassoon |
| SIGNATURE | SASSOON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research Institute for Cultural Heritage Curtin University of Technology Box U1987, Perth, W.A. 6845, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The White-man calls me Jack’: The many names and claims for Jackey Jackey of the lower Logan River, south-east Queensland, Australia
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…
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893." Australian Historical Studies, 50(3), pp. 400–401
Introduction: Archives, Memory and Place from the Canberra Perspective
This is an introductory piece to a special section based on a 2013 cross-disciplinary conference on the lived experience of Canberra
My country's heart is in the market place: Tom Stannage interviewed by Peter Read
Tom Stannage was one among many historians in the 1970s uncovering histories of Australia which were to challenge national narratives and community memories. In 1971, Tom returned to Western Australia after writing his PhD in Cambridge with the passion to write urban history and an understanding that in order to do so, he needed an emotional engagement with place. What he had yet to realize was the power of community memories in Western Australia…
Becoming anthropological: A cultural biography of EL Mitchell’s photographs of Aboriginal people
Minority reports: Indigenous and community voices in archives. Papers from the 4th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (Ichora4), Perth, Western Australia, August 2008
Beyond chip monks and paper tigers: Towards a new culture of archival format specialists
The Courage of their Convictions: Creating Cultural Landscapes in 1930s Western Australia
Building a cultural landscape involves deep political and social processes. Discussions relating to decisions about preservation reveal cultural values at a particular moment and explain the character of the surviving landscape. This study analyses how one community in Western Australia defined its sense of place and identity. In the 1930s, on a wave of historical consciousness, Western Australians sought to enshrine the desire to preserve a rang…
Archives: Recordkeeping in Society edited by Sue McKemmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed and Frank Upward
riting about memory is a popular topic for historians.Public History Review volume 10 had the title Remembering and Forgetting.Historians now recognise museums as memory institutions, with an analytical focus on the exhibition as a representation of contemporary ideas.In order, however, to penetrate the exhibition, the historical processes of collecting, preserving and documenting need to be understood.This kind of archaeology of exhibitions requ…
Other histories
This is an interesting and important book. In one sense, its' authors deal with familiar lines of enquiry surrounding the cultural contexts of the production and consumption of photography. However, the importance of this book is in the choice of sites where these discussions are played out. Rather than focusing entirely on the Western colonial context and the proscribed nature of the ideological approaches of Edward Said and Michel Foucault, the…
The Politics of Pictures: A Cultural History of the Western Australian Government Print Photograph Collection
Archivally nuanced studies reveal that as whole objects, and for each of their constituent parts, photographic archives are the products of specific cultural and social relations. The archival approach used in this analysis of the Western Australian Government Print Collection relies on understanding the interactive relationships between the changing political and administrative contexts of the production of the photographs with their content and…
The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays Eggs Inside a Paper Bag'. A Cultural Ecology of Fish-eating Birds in Western Australia
This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds. A history of understandings of the specific habitat ecology is traced through the rise of scientific knowledge about fish-eating birds as competitors with fishermen. The impact of this changing awareness on the river ecology is discussed as well as how this scientific knowledge became…
Photography and anthropology
Raw Histories is an important contribution to debates about the origins of photographic meanings, ideas about photographic objects, and the roles of individuals and institutions in shaping knowledge through collecting and exhibition practices. Raw Histories has a complex set of foundations and genealogies from which it develops its stmcture and arguments. It builds on Clifford Geertz's idea of a ‘thick’ description of photographs — that is, using…
E. L. Mitchell and the imaginary Broome
The West Kimberley town of Broome, Western Australia, has been a persistent motif in the imagination and writings of Australians since its declaration as a townsite in 1883. Located over 2000 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia, and thus physically inaccessible to many, the received image of Broome with its pearling history and economy has been shaped predominantly through illustrations and text in newspapers, government publications, ma…
Minority reports: Indigenous and community voices in archives. Papers from the 4th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (Ichora4), Perth, Western Australia, August 2008
The Courage of their Convictions: Creating Cultural Landscapes in 1930s Western Australia
Building a cultural landscape involves deep political and social processes. Discussions relating to decisions about preservation reveal cultural values at a particular moment and explain the character of the surviving landscape. This study analyses how one community in Western Australia defined its sense of place and identity. In the 1930s, on a wave of historical consciousness, Western Australians sought to enshrine the desire to preserve a rang…
The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays Eggs Inside a Paper Bag'. A Cultural Ecology of Fish-eating Birds in Western Australia
This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds. A history of understandings of the specific habitat ecology is traced through the rise of scientific knowledge about fish-eating birds as competitors with fishermen. The impact of this changing awareness on the river ecology is discussed as well as how this scientific knowledge became…
E. L. Mitchell and the imaginary Broome
The West Kimberley town of Broome, Western Australia, has been a persistent motif in the imagination and writings of Australians since its declaration as a townsite in 1883. Located over 2000 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia, and thus physically inaccessible to many, the received image of Broome with its pearling history and economy has been shaped predominantly through illustrations and text in newspapers, government publications, ma…
Photography and anthropology
Raw Histories is an important contribution to debates about the origins of photographic meanings, ideas about photographic objects, and the roles of individuals and institutions in shaping knowledge through collecting and exhibition practices. Raw Histories has a complex set of foundations and genealogies from which it develops its stmcture and arguments. It builds on Clifford Geertz's idea of a ‘thick’ description of photographs — that is, using…
The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays Eggs Inside a Paper Bag'. A Cultural Ecology of Fish-eating Birds in Western Australia
This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds. A history of understandings of the specific habitat ecology is traced through the rise of scientific knowledge about fish-eating birds as competitors with fishermen. The impact of this changing awareness on the river ecology is discussed as well as how this scientific knowledge became…
Other histories
This is an interesting and important book. In one sense, its' authors deal with familiar lines of enquiry surrounding the cultural contexts of the production and consumption of photography. However, the importance of this book is in the choice of sites where these discussions are played out. Rather than focusing entirely on the Western colonial context and the proscribed nature of the ideological approaches of Edward Said and Michel Foucault, the…
The Politics of Pictures: A Cultural History of the Western Australian Government Print Photograph Collection
Archivally nuanced studies reveal that as whole objects, and for each of their constituent parts, photographic archives are the products of specific cultural and social relations. The archival approach used in this analysis of the Western Australian Government Print Collection relies on understanding the interactive relationships between the changing political and administrative contexts of the production of the photographs with their content and…
The Courage of their Convictions: Creating Cultural Landscapes in 1930s Western Australia
Building a cultural landscape involves deep political and social processes. Discussions relating to decisions about preservation reveal cultural values at a particular moment and explain the character of the surviving landscape. This study analyses how one community in Western Australia defined its sense of place and identity. In the 1930s, on a wave of historical consciousness, Western Australians sought to enshrine the desire to preserve a rang…
Archives: Recordkeeping in Society edited by Sue McKemmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed and Frank Upward
riting about memory is a popular topic for historians.Public History Review volume 10 had the title Remembering and Forgetting.Historians now recognise museums as memory institutions, with an analytical focus on the exhibition as a representation of contemporary ideas.In order, however, to penetrate the exhibition, the historical processes of collecting, preserving and documenting need to be understood.This kind of archaeology of exhibitions requ…
Beyond chip monks and paper tigers: Towards a new culture of archival format specialists
Minority reports: Indigenous and community voices in archives. Papers from the 4th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (Ichora4), Perth, Western Australia, August 2008
Becoming anthropological: A cultural biography of EL Mitchell’s photographs of Aboriginal people
My country's heart is in the market place: Tom Stannage interviewed by Peter Read
Tom Stannage was one among many historians in the 1970s uncovering histories of Australia which were to challenge national narratives and community memories. In 1971, Tom returned to Western Australia after writing his PhD in Cambridge with the passion to write urban history and an understanding that in order to do so, he needed an emotional engagement with place. What he had yet to realize was the power of community memories in Western Australia…
Introduction: Archives, Memory and Place from the Canberra Perspective
This is an introductory piece to a special section based on a 2013 cross-disciplinary conference on the lived experience of Canberra
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893." Australian Historical Studies, 50(3), pp. 400–401
The White-man calls me Jack’: The many names and claims for Jackey Jackey of the lower Logan River, south-east Queensland, Australia
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…
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