Bibliography for Aboriginal Studies

Original bibliography courtesy of Jim Duffield
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Menzies School of Health Research. Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

Aboriginal Arts Board (ed. Robert Edwards). 1977. Oenpelli bark paintings. Sydney (NSW): Ure Smith.

Allen, J. & P. Corris (ed.). 1977. The journal of John Sweatman. St Lucia (Qld): University of Queensland Press.

Anderson, B.W. (1975). Understanding the Old Testament. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Angeloni, E. (1989). Anthropology 90/91. Guilford: Connecticut: Dushkin.

Baker, R. (1990). 'Coming in? The Yanuwa as a case study.' Aboriginal History 14.

Barnes, M. (1991). In the Presence of Mystery - An Introduction to the Story of Human Religiousness. Connecticut: Twenty Third Publications.

Bates, E. & Linder-Pelz, S. (1988). Health Care Issues. 2nd Impression. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Bavinic, H. [Translated by Hendriksen, W.] (1979 - ). The Doctrine of God. Chatham, U.K.: W. & J. Mackay.

Bean, C. (1983). Gallipoli Correspondent: The Front Line Diary of C.E.W. Bean. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin.

Beaver, R. et. al. (ed.). (1988). Eerdmans' Handbook to the World's Religions. Tring: Lion Publishing.

Bennett, S. (1992). Aborigines and Political Power. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Berndt, R. M. & Berndt, C. H. (1989). The Speaking Land: Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia. Ringwood: Penguin.

Bin-Salik, M. (1991). Aboriginal tertiary education in Australia - how well is it serving the needs of Aborigines? Underdale: University of South Australia.

Blainey, G. (1982).Video, Blainey View - 'Footprints' (CHX, VC 1229).

Bolger, A. (1991). Aboriginal women and violence : a report for the Criminology Research Council and the Northern Territory Commissioner of Police. Darwin: Australian National University.

Bowdler, S. Homo Sapiens in Southeast Asia and the Antipodes: Archaeological vs Biological Interpretations. Paper presented to Symposium on the Evolution and Dispersal of Modern Humans in Asia. Tokyo, November 1990.

Brennan, F. (1992). Criminal Justice - a Christian Perspective, Working Papers of - Prison the Last Option - Chairman Sir Ronald Wilson - September 1991. Perth: Churches Social Justice Commissions.

Brennan, F. (1992). How Best to promote civil and political rights in Queensland, EARC Seminar - Brisbane 1992. Sydney: Uniya.

Brennan, F. (1992). Land Rights the Religious Factor. Sydney: Uniya Centre.

Briscoe, G. (1993). Notes for a discussion presented to a group of Aboriginal and Intercultural Studies Students at the Edith Cowan University, February 1993. Handout.

Brock, P. (1989). Women, Rites and Sites: Aboriginal Women's Cultural Knowledge. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Brock, P. (1993). Outback Ghettos, A history of Aboriginal institutionalisation and survival. Sydney: Cambridge University Press.

Broome, R. (1991). Aboriginal Australians: Black Response to White Dominance 1788-1994. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Bullock, A.. Stallybrass, O. and Trombley, S. (eds.) (1990). The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought. Glasgow: Fontana.

Callan, V. (1986). Australian Minority Groups. Sydney: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Cann, R., Stoneking, M. and Wilson, A. (1987). Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution. Nature: Vol 325: January 1987, pp. 31-36.

Carr, E.H. (1976). What is History? Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Challen, [Bishop] M. B. (1989). The Brewery Site Mounts Bay road - Its Status in the eyes of the Aborigines. Unpublished but widely copied and promulgated paper.

Chappell, D. (National Committee on Violence), (1988). Violence in Australia. Albury: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Clark, M.(Abridged by Cathcart, M) (1993). History of Australia. Melbourne: McPherson.

Cohen, P. and Gardiner, C. (Eds) 1982). It Aint Half Racist Mum: Fighting Racism in the Media. U.K.:

Coleman, S. (1975). What Every Jew Should Know. Perth: Pilpel & Co.

Collingwood, R.G. (1956). The Idea of History. London: Oxford University Press. (Ch. 2)

Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Constitution, 1901, as amended to 4/91.


Commonwealth of Australia, Defence Act 1909.

Commonwealth of Australia, Racial Discrimination Act, 1975, including "The Schedule": International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination.

Crisp, L. (ed.). (1993). The Bulletin, Vol. 115, No 5855. Sydney: Australian Consolidated Press.

Crumlin, R. (ed.) (1991). Aboriginal Art and Spirituality. North Blackburn - Australia: Collins Dove.

de Vaus, D. (1990). Surveys in Social Research. 2nd edition. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Denton, K. (1980). The Breaker. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.

Devito, J.A. (2003). The Interpersonal Communication Book, (10th edition). Pearson Allyn & Bacon;

Donald, J. and Rattansi, A. (Eds.) (1993). 'Race', Culture and Difference. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith.

Douglas, J. (ed.) (1974). New International Bible Dictionary . London: Inter Varsity Press.

Dudgeon, P. & Oxenham, D. (1994). Aboriginal Psychology, a discussion Paper. Occasional Paper (Unpublished). Perth.

Duffield, J. (1992) Aboriginal Health, Mt. Newman-Fringe Dwellers or Outcasts. Unpublished Paper.

Eadie, J. (Rev.) (ed.) (183?). The National Comprehensive Family Bible. London: H. Gibbs.

Edwards, W.H. (1989). An Introduction to Aboriginal Societies. Wentworth Falls: Social Science Press.

Elkin, A.P. (1986). The Australian Aborigines. North Ryde: Angus & Robertson.

Ellis, M. (1987). Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation: The Uprising and the Future. Bungay, Suffolk: Orbis Books.

Elton, G.R. (1967). The Practice of History. Sydney: University Press.

Evans, R., Saunders, K., and Cronin, K. (1988). Race Relations in Colonial Queensland, A history of exclusion, exploitation and extermination. St. Lucia, Queensland: University Press.

Falkowski, J. (1992). Indian Law/Race Law, A Five Hundred Year History. New York: Praeger.

Fitzgerald, Justice (1991). The Report into Corruption - Chapter 7 the Police Culture. Brisbane: Qld. State Government Printer.

Fletcher, C. (1992). Aboriginal Politics, Intergovernmental Relations. Melbourne: University Press.

Flood, J. (1989). Archaeology of the dreamtime : the story of prehistoric Australia and its people. Sydney: Collins.

Foster, L.E. (1988). Diversity and Multicultural Education. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Gale, F. (ed.). (1986). Woman's Role in Aboriginal Society. Canberra: Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies.

Geertz, C. (1976). Religion of Java. Chicago: University Press.

Gillman, I. (ed.). (1988). Many Faiths One Nation. Sydney: William Collins.

Glynn, S. (1970). Urbanisation in Australian History, 1788-1900. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson.

Goldstein, M.C. (1987). "When Brothers Share a Wife": Anthropology 90-91. pp. 94-97.

Graham, D. (1989). Dying Inside. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Graham, D. (ed.). (1994). Being Whitefella. Fremantle: Arts Centre Press.

Grassby, A. & Hill, M. (1988). Six Australian Battlefields - The black resistance to invasion and the white struggle against colonial oppression. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.

Grassby, A. (1984). The Tyranny of Prejudice. Melbourne: A. E. Press.

Green, N. (1983). Desert School. Fremantle: Arts Centre Press.

Green, N. (1995). Broken spears : Aborigines and Europeans in the southwest of Australia. Fremantle: Arts Centre Press.

Grenfell Price, A. (1949). White Settlers & Native Peoples: An Historical Study of Racial Contracts Between English Speaking Whites & Aboriginal Peoples in the United States, Canada and Australia. Melbourne: Georgian House.

Gribbin, J. and Cherfas, J. (1982). The Monkey Puzzle. London: Bodley Head.

Gribble, J. (1987). Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land or Blacks and Whites in North West Australia. Australia - Perth: Republished by U.W.A. and W.A.C.A.E. Press.

Gudykunst, B. and Kim, Y. (1984). Communicating With Strangers: An Approach to Intercultural Communication. New York: McGraw Hill.

Haebich, A. (1992). Gender relations in Australia: domination and negotiation. Marrickville, NSW: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Hall, S. (1991). Justice Denied - The Policing of Aboriginal People in W.A.. Paper presented to - Aboriginal Youth Issues Conference, Cowan University, Perth, W.A., August 1991

Handlin, O. (1979). Truth in History. Harvard: Belknap Press.

Hansard, (1886). W.A. Parliamentary Debates. Government Printer.

Hardy, F. (1978). The Unlucky Australians. Aylesbury: Hunt Barnard.

Harris, J. (1990). One blood: 200 years of aboriginal encounter with Christianity -- a story of hope. Sutherland - Australia: Albatross Books.

Harris, S. (1990). Two way Aboriginal Schooling - Education and Cultural Survival. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

Hart, Sir B. (1981). History of the Second World War. Trowbridge: Cassell & Company.

Hawke, S. & Gallagher, M. (1989). Noonkanbah: whose land, whose law. Fremantle: Arts Centre Press.

Haynes, B. T. et al (1974). W.A. Aborigines 1622-1972. Fremantle, History Association of Western Australia.

Hinnells. J. (ed.). (1987). The Penguin Dictionary of Religions. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Hogan, M. (1987). The Sectarian Strand - Religion in Australian History. Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin.

Hogg, I. and Batchelor, J. (1976). The Machine Gun. London: Purnell.

Hollows, F. and Corris, P. (1991). Fred Hollows - An Autobiography. Victoria: John Kerr.

Hughes, R. (1987). The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding. London: Pan Books.

Hulm, N. (1985). Where The Snow Grass Grows. Victoria: Border Morning Mail.

Husband, C. (1992). 'Race' and Nation - The British Experience. Perth: Paradigm Books - Curtin University of Technology.

Inson, G. and Ward, R. (1971). The glorious years of Australia fair from the birth of the Bulletin to Versailles. Brisbane: Jacaranda Press.

Irwin, L. ed. (1990, June). Aboriginal Substance Abuse Workshop. Perth: North East Metropolitan Health Region.

Illich, I. (1973). Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Illich, I. (1973). Deschooling Society: Social Questions. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Illich, I. (1976). Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: the Expropriation of Health. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues. (1987), Indigenous peoples: a global quest for justice, Zed Books, London.

Jackomos, A. & Fowell, D. (1993). Forgotten Heroes: Aborigines at War from the Somme to Vietnam. Melbourne:Victoria Press.

Jacob, T. (1991). In The Beginning: A Perspective On Traditional Aboriginal Societies. West Australia: Ministry of Education.

Jolly, C. and Plog, F. (1987). Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. New York: Knopf.

Kalokerinos, A. (1974). Every second child. Melbourne: Nelson.

Karmel, P. (ed. Chair). (1990). Australia's Health 1990. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health Australian Government Publishing Service.

Keen, I. (ed.) (1991). Being Black - Aboriginal Cultures In Settled Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

Keesing, R. (1988). Cultural Anthropology: A contemporary perspective. New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston.

Kerss, G. (1988). Communication and Culture. Kensington: New South Wales University Press.

Kinnamon, M. (ed.). (1991). Signs of the Spirit, official report of the seventh assembly of the World Council of Churches. Geneva: World Council of Churches.

Kockiumbas, J. (1992). The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 2, 1770-1860. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Kottak, C. P. (1987). Anthropology, The Exploration of Human Diversity. New York: Random House.

Krupinski, J. and Stoller, A. (1974). The Family in Australia: social, demographic and psychological aspects. Sydney: Pergamon Press.

Langford, R. (1988). Don't Take your Love to Town. Victoria: Penguin.

Lawson, R. (1973). Brisbane in the 1890s: A Study of an Australian Urban Society. Brisbane: University Press.

Libby, R. (1989). Hawke's Law: The Politics of Mining and Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia. Perth: U.W.A. Press.

Lippman, L. (1981/8). Generations of Resistance: The Aboriginal Struggle for Justice. Sydney: Longmann Cheshire.

Lofgren, M. (1980). Patterns of Life. Perth: W.A. Museum.

Long, J. (1989). 'Leaving the desert: actors and sufferers in the Aboriginal exodus from the Western desert' in Aboriginal History 13.

Long, T. (1979). 'The development of government Aboriginal policy: the effect of administrative changes, 1829-1977' in R. M. and C. H. Berndt, Aborigines of the West: Their Past and Their Present. 2d Rev Ed.. Nedlands: UWA Press.

Loos, N. (1982). Invasion and Resistance. Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland frontier. Canberra: ANU Press.

Mabo. The High Court Decision "Eddie Mabo and ORS" dated 3 June 1992, Writer's personal photocopy from the Federal Court.

Mann, C. (ed.). (1983). Best Stories of Henry Lawson. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.

Markus, A. (1994). Australian Race Relations (Australian Experience). Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Marwick, A. (1970). Primary Sources, for the Open University. Bletchley: The Open University Press.

Marwick, A. (1971). What History is and Why is it so Important, for the Open University. Bletchley: The Open University Press.

McCorquodale, J. (1986). The Legal Classification of Race in Australia. In Aboriginal history, 1986, Vol. 10.

McIntyre, G. (1982). The Secret Discovery of Australia: Portuguese ventures 200 years before Captain Cook. Sydney: Pan.

McLeod, D. (1981). How the West was Lost. Port Hedland: Don Mcleod.

McMahon, A. (1989). The Lockridge Community Group - The Development of a Voluntary Organisation. Wilson, W.A.: A. McMahon.

Miles, R. (1989). Racism. London: Routlidge.

Morphy, H. (1991). "The Art of Northern Australia" in Traditional Aboriginal Society, a Reader. Hong Kong: Macmillan. (First published in Aboriginal Studies, Sydney: Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1981.

Morphy, H. (1991). Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge. Chicago: University Press.

Morris, B. (1987). Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Nannup, A., Marsh, L. & Kinnane, S. (1992). When the Pelican Laughed. Fremantle: Arts Centre Press.

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Newcomb, S. T. (1992). 'A Matter of Religious Freedom' in Pagans in the Promised Land. Oregon: Marcola.

No Author. HALT: an Evaluation Report of the Healthy Aboriginal Lifestyle Team Campaign Against Petrol Sniffing in Central Australia for The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Menzies School of Health Research.

O'Malley, S.J. (1980). Living Word: Scripture and Myth. New York: Paulist Press.

Oneil, J. (1986). The politics of health in the Fourth World; a Northern Canadian example. Human Organisation 45 (2).

Paterson, A. (1983). Singer of the Bush. A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson Complete Works 1885-1900. Sydney: Lansdowne.

Paterson, A. (1983). Song of the Pen. A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson Complete Works 1901-1941. Sydney: Lansdowne.

Pearce, G. (1972). The Story of the Maori People. Auckland: Collins.

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Reece, R. & Stannage, T. (1984). European-Aboriginal Relations in Western Australian History. Perth: University of W.A. Press.

Reid, J. (ed.) (1989). Body, Land and Spirit: Health and Healing in Aboriginal Society. St Lucia: Queensland University Press.

Reid, J. and Trompf, P. (1991). The Health of Aboriginal Australia. Canberra: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Reynolds, H. (1988). The Other Side of the Frontier: an interpretation of the Aboriginal response to the invasion and settlement of Australia. Ringwood: Penguin.

Reynolds, H. (1990). With the White People. The crucial role of Aborigines in the exploration and development of Australia. Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin.

Reynolds, H. (1992). The Law of The Land. Ringwood: Penguin Books.

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Rowse, T. (1994). After Mabo - Interpreting indigenous traditions. Melbourne: University Press.

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