PastMasters' Papers
Herein papers & notes published by the PastMasters and ' work in-progress' papers where in-put is sought from contributors. In particular, this section records, analyses and attributes those valuable insights which illuminate the past yet would not otherwise enter the record. An example is Billy Boustead's observation that fossilised mud lobsters are not the dead animals but the cast off shells being residue of molting their exoskeletons - Ecdysis.
IAN McINTOSH
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Article on Australia's Kilwa Coins Conundrum p113 of Early Maritime Cultures in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. Papers from a conference held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (African Studies Program) 23-24 October 2015, with additional contributions.
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Life and Death on the Wessel Islands: The Case of Australia’s Mysterious African Coin Cache - Australian Folklore 27, 2012 9
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‘The iron furnace of Birrinydji’, McIntosh, I. S 2004 in A. Rumsey and J. Weiner (eds), Mining and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea, Wantage, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing, pp. 12–30.
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‘Islam and Australia’s Aborigines? A perspective from north-east Arnhem Land’, McIntosh, I S 1996, Journal of Religious History 20(1):53-77.
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Peace Journeys: A New Direction in Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Research Ian S. McIntosh · Nour Fara Haddad · Dane Munro
Nov 2019 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Nov 2019 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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The Whale and the Cross - Conversations with David Burrumarra MBE - Book Published by NT Historical Society 1994
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Between Two Worlds - Essays in Honour of the Visionary Aboriginal Elder, David Burrumarra
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Between Two Worlds - Book Summary
This tribute volume brings together over thirty essays in honour of the influential traditional Aboriginal (Yolngu) leader David Burrumarra M.B.E. (1917-1994). These essays provide unparalleled insight into the life and works of this visionary thinker at what was a critical turning point in Australian history – the mid- to late twentieth century. Venturing deeply into the heart of the Aboriginal ‘Dreaming’, this book connects Burrumarra’s ‘totemic’ philosophy and his controversial political life. The essays encompass not only the development of remote indigenous Australian communities, but also the search for Aboriginal land and sea rights, and the quest for justice and reconciliation. Of particular interest is how the Yolngu cultural heritage, so influential in determining the trajectory of intercultural relations, built upon a legacy of over 200 years of contact with ‘Macassan’ fishermen from Indonesia. These traders introduced both Islam and the skills of iron-making to Yolngu long before the arrival of English explorer Captain Cook in Australia in 1770.
In Burrumarra’s recounting of his life, three themes predominated. The first was his desire to achieve a reconciliation of Yolngu and Christian religious beliefs. The second was the attempt to find recognition for Yolngu rights within the wider Australian community. The third theme was his wish for Yolngu to achieve a level of wealth comparable to that of other Australians by taking advantage of the great potential of the land and sea, through fishing, mining and tourism ventures. All three of these ambitions, in their own ways, were controversial, and it was Burrumarra’s intention that their deeper significance be understood and appreciated by a wide audience.
Each chapter of this book therefore brings together illustrative excerpts from Burrumarra’s biography The Whale and the Cross, the volume Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Dreaming, and various articles written for both academic and popular audiences.
The initial focus is on Burrumarra’s philosophy on the need for a treaty between Aborigines and non-Aborigines in Australia. His theory of ‘membership and remembership’ (or adoption of non-Aborigines into the Yolngu realm) as a mechanism for pursuing Yolngu rights on the national stage is discussed. This is followed by a series of biographical essays, and also his thoughts on the ‘totemic embrace’, that special bond that exists between Yolngu and various totemic species for which they have ritual and spiritual authority. Later chapters describe Burrumarra’s role in the extraordinary Adjustment Movement in Arnhem Land of 1957, and also the question of whether treaties were signed between Yolngu and outsiders, in particular the Macassans, in pre-colonial days. The manner in which the Yolngu engaged with the very first outsiders on the coast, including Islamic peoples, and also those with the skills to transform the ‘red rock’ (haematite) of the coast into tools of iron, is highlighted.
This tribute volume brings together over thirty essays in honour of the influential traditional Aboriginal (Yolngu) leader David Burrumarra M.B.E. (1917-1994). These essays provide unparalleled insight into the life and works of this visionary thinker at what was a critical turning point in Australian history – the mid- to late twentieth century. Venturing deeply into the heart of the Aboriginal ‘Dreaming’, this book connects Burrumarra’s ‘totemic’ philosophy and his controversial political life. The essays encompass not only the development of remote indigenous Australian communities, but also the search for Aboriginal land and sea rights, and the quest for justice and reconciliation. Of particular interest is how the Yolngu cultural heritage, so influential in determining the trajectory of intercultural relations, built upon a legacy of over 200 years of contact with ‘Macassan’ fishermen from Indonesia. These traders introduced both Islam and the skills of iron-making to Yolngu long before the arrival of English explorer Captain Cook in Australia in 1770.
In Burrumarra’s recounting of his life, three themes predominated. The first was his desire to achieve a reconciliation of Yolngu and Christian religious beliefs. The second was the attempt to find recognition for Yolngu rights within the wider Australian community. The third theme was his wish for Yolngu to achieve a level of wealth comparable to that of other Australians by taking advantage of the great potential of the land and sea, through fishing, mining and tourism ventures. All three of these ambitions, in their own ways, were controversial, and it was Burrumarra’s intention that their deeper significance be understood and appreciated by a wide audience.
Each chapter of this book therefore brings together illustrative excerpts from Burrumarra’s biography The Whale and the Cross, the volume Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Dreaming, and various articles written for both academic and popular audiences.
The initial focus is on Burrumarra’s philosophy on the need for a treaty between Aborigines and non-Aborigines in Australia. His theory of ‘membership and remembership’ (or adoption of non-Aborigines into the Yolngu realm) as a mechanism for pursuing Yolngu rights on the national stage is discussed. This is followed by a series of biographical essays, and also his thoughts on the ‘totemic embrace’, that special bond that exists between Yolngu and various totemic species for which they have ritual and spiritual authority. Later chapters describe Burrumarra’s role in the extraordinary Adjustment Movement in Arnhem Land of 1957, and also the question of whether treaties were signed between Yolngu and outsiders, in particular the Macassans, in pre-colonial days. The manner in which the Yolngu engaged with the very first outsiders on the coast, including Islamic peoples, and also those with the skills to transform the ‘red rock’ (haematite) of the coast into tools of iron, is highlighted.
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MICHAEL HERMES
Why aren't Emus on Groote Eylandt any more? {NT Naturalist (2018) 28}
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