Samuel Furphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 531032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Furphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Furphy |
| SIGNATURE | FURPHY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3162-3457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
He Does Not Speak of Civilizing the Australians Now’
Matthew Moorhouse was Protector of Aborigines in the colony of South Australia from 1839 to 1856. He has been the subject of research by many scholars interested in the history of race relations and protective governance in early colonial Australia and is typically considered to have been one of the more sympathetic and dedicated officers to have served in the role of protector. A lesser-known aspect of his career is his collection of Aboriginal …
The Years of Terror
Remembering assimilation
This article considers the significance of Queen Elizabeth II's 1954 visit to Shepparton, Victoria, to the history and memory of Aboriginal political activism in the era of assimilation.Using oral testimony, newspaper reports, and other archival sources, I describe the visit and ponder its prominent role in Yorta Yorta storytelling, which I suggest amounts to a type of 'memory activism'.The article also discusses Victoria's dysfunctional Aborigin…
Breaking the Silence
Breaking the Silence: Aboriginal Defenders and the Settler State, 1905–1939." Australian Historical Studies, 51(4), pp. 501–502
Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, they consider the place of different historical a…
The Politics of National Recognition
The announcement in January 2015 that Prince Philip had been chosen to receive an Australian knighthood (an honour which itself had been controversially revived the previous year) sparked a fury of debate about honours, and about the continuance of a British connection in Australia's national life. Such debates were not new, echoing earlier arguments about honours as a national or imperial symbol. Through two related case studies — the Australian…
‘The most trustworthy writers on our Blacks’
Edward M. Curr was a controversial figure in Australian anthropology during its formative period. In his major work, The Australian Race (1886), he used the techniques of comparative philology to develop a theory of Aboriginal racial origins. The most enduring legacy of Curr's publication is its linguistic data, but at the time of its publication it was just as notable for its predominantly negative assessments of fellow ethnologists. While promi…
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins
In the history and folklore of Australia's Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the 'Seven Dwarfs' has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet applied to a powerful group of senior public servants, the term has come to represent the professionalisation of Australian government administration during the Second World War and post-war reconstruction era, and into the following two decades of expansion. This was a period when, for …
Australian Settler Colonialism and the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station
Australian Settler Colonialism and the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station: Redrawing Boundaries.." Australian Historical Studies, 46(1), pp. 133–134
Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History
Edward M. Curr (1820–89) was a pastoralist, horse trader, stock inspector, Aboriginal administrator, author and ethnologist. A prominent figure in the history of the Colony of Victoria, he rose to a senior position in the public service and authored several influential books and essays. He is best remembered for his nostalgic memoir, Recollections of Squatting in Victoria
Our Civilisation Has Rolled Over Thee’
This article explores the role of history in the Yorta Yorta native title case, with a particular focus on the nineteenth-century squatter Edward M Curr’s role in the outcome. It begins by describing the crucial importance of historical inquiry to native title proceedings. An account of Curr’s life follows, including details that have been lacking in the biographical record to date. The role of Curr’s testimony in the Yorta Yorta case is then exp…
Aboriginal house names and settler Australian identity
Peer-reviewed
Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, they consider the place of different historical a…
Our Civilisation Has Rolled Over Thee’
This article explores the role of history in the Yorta Yorta native title case, with a particular focus on the nineteenth-century squatter Edward M Curr’s role in the outcome. It begins by describing the crucial importance of historical inquiry to native title proceedings. An account of Curr’s life follows, including details that have been lacking in the biographical record to date. The role of Curr’s testimony in the Yorta Yorta case is then exp…
Aboriginal house names and settler Australian identity
Peer-reviewed
Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History
Edward M. Curr (1820–89) was a pastoralist, horse trader, stock inspector, Aboriginal administrator, author and ethnologist. A prominent figure in the history of the Colony of Victoria, he rose to a senior position in the public service and authored several influential books and essays. He is best remembered for his nostalgic memoir, Recollections of Squatting in Victoria
Aboriginal house names and settler Australian identity
Peer-reviewed
Our Civilisation Has Rolled Over Thee’
This article explores the role of history in the Yorta Yorta native title case, with a particular focus on the nineteenth-century squatter Edward M Curr’s role in the outcome. It begins by describing the crucial importance of historical inquiry to native title proceedings. An account of Curr’s life follows, including details that have been lacking in the biographical record to date. The role of Curr’s testimony in the Yorta Yorta case is then exp…
Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History
Edward M. Curr (1820–89) was a pastoralist, horse trader, stock inspector, Aboriginal administrator, author and ethnologist. A prominent figure in the history of the Colony of Victoria, he rose to a senior position in the public service and authored several influential books and essays. He is best remembered for his nostalgic memoir, Recollections of Squatting in Victoria
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins
In the history and folklore of Australia's Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the 'Seven Dwarfs' has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet applied to a powerful group of senior public servants, the term has come to represent the professionalisation of Australian government administration during the Second World War and post-war reconstruction era, and into the following two decades of expansion. This was a period when, for …
Australian Settler Colonialism and the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station
Australian Settler Colonialism and the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station: Redrawing Boundaries.." Australian Historical Studies, 46(1), pp. 133–134
‘The most trustworthy writers on our Blacks’
Edward M. Curr was a controversial figure in Australian anthropology during its formative period. In his major work, The Australian Race (1886), he used the techniques of comparative philology to develop a theory of Aboriginal racial origins. The most enduring legacy of Curr's publication is its linguistic data, but at the time of its publication it was just as notable for its predominantly negative assessments of fellow ethnologists. While promi…
The Politics of National Recognition
The announcement in January 2015 that Prince Philip had been chosen to receive an Australian knighthood (an honour which itself had been controversially revived the previous year) sparked a fury of debate about honours, and about the continuance of a British connection in Australia's national life. Such debates were not new, echoing earlier arguments about honours as a national or imperial symbol. Through two related case studies — the Australian…
Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, they consider the place of different historical a…
Breaking the Silence
Breaking the Silence: Aboriginal Defenders and the Settler State, 1905–1939." Australian Historical Studies, 51(4), pp. 501–502
The Years of Terror
Remembering assimilation
This article considers the significance of Queen Elizabeth II's 1954 visit to Shepparton, Victoria, to the history and memory of Aboriginal political activism in the era of assimilation.Using oral testimony, newspaper reports, and other archival sources, I describe the visit and ponder its prominent role in Yorta Yorta storytelling, which I suggest amounts to a type of 'memory activism'.The article also discusses Victoria's dysfunctional Aborigin…
He Does Not Speak of Civilizing the Australians Now’
Matthew Moorhouse was Protector of Aborigines in the colony of South Australia from 1839 to 1856. He has been the subject of research by many scholars interested in the history of race relations and protective governance in early colonial Australia and is typically considered to have been one of the more sympathetic and dedicated officers to have served in the role of protector. A lesser-known aspect of his career is his collection of Aboriginal …
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