Shelley Greer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelley Greer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelley |
| FAMILY NAME | Greer |
| SIGNATURE | GREER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Working Alongside
Connections, Transactions and Rock Art within and beyond the Wet Tropics of North Queensland
This paper explores past connections of Aboriginal people within what is now known as the Wet Tropics, a coastal strip of tropical rainforest in northeast Australia. As a result of historical and ethnographic descriptions the rainforest is often defined as a ‘cultural zone’. The proclamation of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, based on environmental parameters, has exaggerated the idea of the rainforest as a cultural boundary. We propose that…
Aboriginal Artefacts, Collectors and the Wet Tropics
This introduction raises issues concerning transactions involving Aboriginal artefacts of the North Queensland Wet Tropics. We highlight relationships between artefacts, persons and place, as well as the importance of understanding the nature of exchange and concepts of ownership in the creation and collection of artefacts
Mainland magic
Last days on Pabaju
Designs on the Future
Iconic painted shields and baskets made by Aboriginal people of the North Queensland rainforest region have been collected and placed in museums all over the world. We describe the historical ethnographic context of the production and use of these things and explore transformations in their value through time. These things are of value to museums and were of value to the collectors who originally procured them. They were also of value to the Abor…
The Janus View
This paper describes archaeological work, begun in the 1980s, that resulted in the development of a community-based approach. The approach is underpinned by the relationships that developed between the researcher and the Cape York Indigenous community of Injinoo. It explores the researcher's motivations in the development of the approach and the way that it emerged, over a period of years, from an on-going exchange of ideas and understanding. The…
Artefacts and collectors in the tropics of North Queensland
This paper outlines some of the ways early artefact collecting contributed to the definition of the Australian region now known and marketed as the ‘World Heritage Wet Tropics’. While others have collected in this region, we focus on the collecting activities of Hermann Klaatsch and the work of Norman Tindale to explore some factors that contributed to their claims that certain artefacts represent a region and its history. We argue that these und…
Heritage and empowerment
This paper reports on the transformation from an archaeological research project to one that focused on Indigenous cultural heritage. The ultimate outcome was the development of a community‐based approach for northern Cape York (Australia) that emerged from a partnership between researcher and the indigenous community. The paper particularly focuses on notions of landscape, sites and artefacts and the ways in which archaeological and indigenous p…
Management Speak
In this article we examine the concept of ‘indigenous knowledge’ as it is currently used in resource management discourse. In the process of engaging with government agents and researchers in the bureaucracy of resource management, indigenous knowledge is a powerful concept in the legitimization of local indigenous practice as well as the recognition of resource and socio-environmental management aspirations. Our use of the phrase ‘management spe…
Tech Voices
Community-based archaeology in Australia
Outside the Antipodes, Australian archaeology is best known as an archaeology of the distant Palaeolithic past. However, where communities have been closely involved in developing and undertaking archaeological research programs, the focus of archaeological research has been radically different, often dealing with the archaeology of the recent, remembered past and crossing disciplinary boundaries between Aboriginal and historical archaeology. Dis…
Community-based archaeology in Australia
Outside the Antipodes, Australian archaeology is best known as an archaeology of the distant Palaeolithic past. However, where communities have been closely involved in developing and undertaking archaeological research programs, the focus of archaeological research has been radically different, often dealing with the archaeology of the recent, remembered past and crossing disciplinary boundaries between Aboriginal and historical archaeology. Dis…
Heritage and empowerment
This paper reports on the transformation from an archaeological research project to one that focused on Indigenous cultural heritage. The ultimate outcome was the development of a community‐based approach for northern Cape York (Australia) that emerged from a partnership between researcher and the indigenous community. The paper particularly focuses on notions of landscape, sites and artefacts and the ways in which archaeological and indigenous p…
The Janus View
This paper describes archaeological work, begun in the 1980s, that resulted in the development of a community-based approach. The approach is underpinned by the relationships that developed between the researcher and the Cape York Indigenous community of Injinoo. It explores the researcher's motivations in the development of the approach and the way that it emerged, over a period of years, from an on-going exchange of ideas and understanding. The…
Designs on the Future
Iconic painted shields and baskets made by Aboriginal people of the North Queensland rainforest region have been collected and placed in museums all over the world. We describe the historical ethnographic context of the production and use of these things and explore transformations in their value through time. These things are of value to museums and were of value to the collectors who originally procured them. They were also of value to the Abor…
Community-based archaeology in Australia
Outside the Antipodes, Australian archaeology is best known as an archaeology of the distant Palaeolithic past. However, where communities have been closely involved in developing and undertaking archaeological research programs, the focus of archaeological research has been radically different, often dealing with the archaeology of the recent, remembered past and crossing disciplinary boundaries between Aboriginal and historical archaeology. Dis…
Management Speak
In this article we examine the concept of ‘indigenous knowledge’ as it is currently used in resource management discourse. In the process of engaging with government agents and researchers in the bureaucracy of resource management, indigenous knowledge is a powerful concept in the legitimization of local indigenous practice as well as the recognition of resource and socio-environmental management aspirations. Our use of the phrase ‘management spe…
Tech Voices
Artefacts and collectors in the tropics of North Queensland
This paper outlines some of the ways early artefact collecting contributed to the definition of the Australian region now known and marketed as the ‘World Heritage Wet Tropics’. While others have collected in this region, we focus on the collecting activities of Hermann Klaatsch and the work of Norman Tindale to explore some factors that contributed to their claims that certain artefacts represent a region and its history. We argue that these und…
Heritage and empowerment
This paper reports on the transformation from an archaeological research project to one that focused on Indigenous cultural heritage. The ultimate outcome was the development of a community‐based approach for northern Cape York (Australia) that emerged from a partnership between researcher and the indigenous community. The paper particularly focuses on notions of landscape, sites and artefacts and the ways in which archaeological and indigenous p…
Designs on the Future
Iconic painted shields and baskets made by Aboriginal people of the North Queensland rainforest region have been collected and placed in museums all over the world. We describe the historical ethnographic context of the production and use of these things and explore transformations in their value through time. These things are of value to museums and were of value to the collectors who originally procured them. They were also of value to the Abor…
The Janus View
This paper describes archaeological work, begun in the 1980s, that resulted in the development of a community-based approach. The approach is underpinned by the relationships that developed between the researcher and the Cape York Indigenous community of Injinoo. It explores the researcher's motivations in the development of the approach and the way that it emerged, over a period of years, from an on-going exchange of ideas and understanding. The…
Mainland magic
Last days on Pabaju
Connections, Transactions and Rock Art within and beyond the Wet Tropics of North Queensland
This paper explores past connections of Aboriginal people within what is now known as the Wet Tropics, a coastal strip of tropical rainforest in northeast Australia. As a result of historical and ethnographic descriptions the rainforest is often defined as a ‘cultural zone’. The proclamation of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, based on environmental parameters, has exaggerated the idea of the rainforest as a cultural boundary. We propose that…
Aboriginal Artefacts, Collectors and the Wet Tropics
This introduction raises issues concerning transactions involving Aboriginal artefacts of the North Queensland Wet Tropics. We highlight relationships between artefacts, persons and place, as well as the importance of understanding the nature of exchange and concepts of ownership in the creation and collection of artefacts
Working Alongside
Archaeology (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (8 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works)