MISCELLANEOUS
Recent MA-theses
- Jolien Harmsen, 1993, 'You Gave Us the Dreaming. Aboriginal Law and Catholic Law: History and Changing Religious Identity of Eastern Arrernte People Connected With Santa Teresa (formerly the Little Flower Black Mission at Charles Creek and Arltunga) in Central Australia, 1936- 1991', Dept. of History, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Janneke Hulsker, 1993, 'Good on ya! Een onderzoek naar het functioneren van community based organisaties in Sydney', Dept. of Anthropology, University of Nijmegen.
- Riet van der Landen, 1993, 'Aboriginal Women Speak Out. Oral Histories about Past, Present and Future', Dept. of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam.
- Anneke van Wamel, 1993, 'Nederland mijn moeder, Australië mijn bruid. Nederlandse emigranten uit de periode 1945-1955 in Australië: het emigratieproces, de eerste periode van vestiging en de huidige situatie', Dept. of Anthropology, University of Nijmegen.
Visual documentation of Papua New Guinean cultures
Since 1987, Asples Production has made 23 'cultural portraits' of PNG communities, with the involvement of local people, on videotape. The aim of this enterprise is to document the cultural heritage in localities where rapid sociocultural change is taking place, and to make that visual documentation available to the people portrayed. The visual documentation includes 18 significant cultural events, in five provinces of Papua New Guinea. So far, 15 documentaries have been released and eight more are production stage (Colombine, 1993, 5(2), pp. 21-22). For further information contact Marsha Berman, Asples Productions, PO Box 561, Kimbe, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Fax. (675)-935638.
Galleries of Aboriginal Art in The Netherlands
* The Dreamtime Aboriginal Art Gallery, Gabriëlle Hunter, Heemraadsingel 333, 3023 BH Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 12-6 p.m.; evenings and weekends by appointment. Tel. (010)-4772073.
* Galerie Boomerang, Peter Madden, Boomstraat 12, 1015 LC Amsterdam. The Netherlands. Hours: Thursday to Monday 12-6 p.m. Tel. (020)-4203516.
Booksellers specialising in Pacific Studies
* Robert S. Baird, The Book Bin - Pacifica, 228 SW 3rd St., Corvallis, OR 97333, USA. Fax: (503)-7520045.
* Charbo's Antiquariaat, Koninginneweg 79, 1075 CJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Fax: (020)6761726.
* David and Cathy Lilburne, Antipodean - Books, Maps and Prints, PO Box 189, Cold Spring, NY 10516, USA. Fax: (914)- 4243617.
A radio documentary on the Bougainville crisis
'Atu Emberson-Bain and Samantha Magick produced a radio documentary on the impact of the four-year war on Bougainville women. Dr. 'Atu Emberson-Bain, a former lecturer in sociology at the University of the South Pacific, interviewed women of Bougainville. These women tell about the ways in which their lives have been affected by the war and the blockade imposed by Papua New Guinea, the active role women played as 'mothers of the land' in early local resistance to the mining, and their views about the Panguna copper mine and the sustained PNG military offensives. The documentary, Bougainville: Women's Voices from a Pacific War Zone was awarded an Honary Mention at the 1993 Pacific Islands News Association Annual Pacific Media Awards (Europe-Pacific Solidarity Bulletin, October/November 1993). A tape of the radio programme of 30 minutes duration costs A$ 15.00 and is available from: Dr 'Atu Emberson-Bain, c/- Steven Vete, South Pacific Commission, B.P. D5, Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia, Fax: 687- 263818.
Aboriginal Studies Electronic Archive
The Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra 'provides a service to researchers in the field of Aboriginal Studies. By accessing information in electronic form researchers can engage in comparative linguistic work, can locate references that are not available by keyword searching of catalogues, and can "add value" to existing work (by producing various forms of output from existing data files). Researchers may request particular searches or other uses of the archive. The archive offers a free service of secure long term storage of electronic data.'
For further information contact Nick Thieberger, Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive, AIATSIS, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. Tel. +61-6-2461170; Fax: +61- 6-2497310. E-mail: aiatsis@peg.pegasus.oz.au (within Australia); aiatsis@peg.apc.org (outside Australia).
Easter Island
Sergei V. Rjabchikov recently published an article on the writing system of Easter Island in the ethnological journal of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow: 'The Rapanui Inscriptions (To the Problem of Decipherment)', Etnografischeskoe Obozrenie, 1993, no.4, pp. 124-141. The article is in Russian but Rjabchikov has sent us an abstract in English. He presents his own ideas of decipherment of Rapanui inscriptions. Firstly, the author searched for correspondences between fragmentary hierogliphic texts and Rapanui myths, which allowed him to read the name of the gods. Secondly, he employed the methods of distributive linguistics. Thirdly, he attempted to read a text, known as 'Apai', written by W. Thomson. Finally, the author gives his interpretation of 104 text fragments and some glyphs with the explanation of their origin. For further information contact: Sergei V. Rjabchikov, 1/39 Krasnoarmejskaja Street, 350063, Krasnodar, Russia.
Courses at the Centre for Pacific Studies
The Centre for Pacific Studies offers a number of courses for undergraduate students specialising in Pacific Studies. A leaflet can be obtained from the coordinator, Dr.A.P. Borsboom, CPS, Department of Anthropology, University of Nijmegen, Postbus 9108, 6500 HK Nijmegen. Tel.: (080)616257/612361. The current programme includes the following courses: An Introduction into Pacific Studies (Dr.A.P. Borsboom and guest speakers/February 4 - May 13, 1994); Religions in Oceania: The Australian Aborigines (Dr.A.P. Borsboom/March 22 - May 3, 1994); Political Anthropology of Polynesia (Prof. H.J.M. Claessen/February 3 - April 28, 1994); Contemporary Developments in the Pacific (Dr.A. Ploeg and Dr.A.P. Borsboom/September - December 1994); Special Seminar: Transformation and Tradition in the Pacific (Dr.A.P. Borsboom/September - December 1994).
Publications of the Centre for Aboriginal Economy Policy Research
The most recent publications of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian University in Canberra include a research monograph and a number of discussion papers:
J. Taylor, 1993, The Relative Economic Status of Indigenous Australians, 1986-91. CAEPR Research Monograph No.5, Canberra: CAEPR
CAEPR Discussion Papers:
No. 42 - D.E. Smith, 1993, The fiscal equalisation model: options for ATSIC's future funding policy and practice.
No. 41 - A.E. Daly, 1993, The position of older Aboriginal people in the labour market.
No. 44 - A.E. Daly, B. Allen, L. Aufflick, E. Bosworth and M. Caruso, 1993, Determining the labour force status of Aboriginal people using a multinomial logit model.
No. 45 - J.C. Altman and A.E. Hawke, 1993, Indigenous Australians and the Labour market: issues for the union movements in the 1990s.
No. 46 - W. Sanders, 1993, Rethinking the fundamentals of social policy towards indigenous Australians: block grants, mainstreaming and the multiplicity of agencies and programs.
No. 47 - J.C. Altman and D.E. Smith, 1993, Compensating indigenous Australian 'losers': a community- oriented approach from the Aboriginal policy arena.
No. 48 - A.E. Daly and A.E. Hawke, 1993, Work and welfare for indigenous Australians.
No. 49 - K.H.W, Gaminiratne, 1993, Change in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population distribution 1986-91.
For a listing of earlier CAEPR Discussion Papers see CPS Oceania Newsletter, number 11/12, pp. 51-52. Copies of discussion papers can be purchased from: Reply Paid 440, ANUTECH Pty Ltd, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia. Ph. (06)-249- 2479; Fax (06) 257-5088. For further information contact Nicky Lumb, CAEPR, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia. Ph (06) 249-0587; Fax (06) 249-2789. CAEPR kindly donated copies of its publications to the Centre for Pacific Studies in Nijmegen, where they are available for consultation.