Abstracts of Papers

GLOBALISATION AND INDIGENOUS CULTURES

Paul Faulstich, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, USA
Indigenous Globalization: A New/Old Way of Doing Environmentalism in an Interconnected World

Julie Gough, School of Art, University of Tasmania
Dark Secrets/Home Truths

Robert Layton, Anthropology, Durham University
Re-imaging identities: indigenous arts as ethnohistorical texts

Stephanie Lawson, International Relations, Australian National University
Culture and the Politics of Identity

Tamara Lucas and Doreen Mellor, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Crossings: Spirit Meets Substance in Australian Indigenous art

Francesca Merlan, Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University
Protection of Cultural Values in an Interconnected World: Continuity Or...?

Anna Shnukal, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit, University of Queensland
Locals, immigrants and outsiders: re-figuring identity in the Torres Strait

Luke Taylor, National Museum of Australia
Representing Indigenous Identities at the National Museum of Australia

Terence Turner, Anthropology, Cornell University
Self-representation, media and the construction of a local-global continuum by the Kayapo of Brazil.

Patricia Vinnicombe, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia
What after the Four Wheel Drive? An appraisal of the origins and continuing production of natural pigments at the Warmarrn Community, Turkey Creek, East Kimberley

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS, CULTURAL TOURISM AND ENTERPRISE

Sylvia Kleinert, Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University

Sylvia Kleinert, Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University
Historicising tourism: differentiating domestic and global

Francis P. McManamon Archeology Divison, United States National Park Service
Touring Archeology: Education Opportunity

Heather Zeppel, University of Newcastle
Entertainers to Entrepreneurs: Iban management of longhouse tourism in Sarawak, Borneo

CREATING IDENTITY IN THE INFORMATION AGE

Craig Aspinall, College of Indigenous Australian Peoples Southern Cross University & John Hobson, Koori Centre, University of Sydney

Lissant Bolton Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, ANU

Radio and the redefinition of culture in Vanuatu

Margaret Carew, Peter Danaja and Robert Handelsmann, Maningrida Arts and Culture, Maningrida
Not drowning but waving: marketing indigenous art through the World Wide Web

Robert Durand, community networking consultant, Alice Springs
Networking with new tools: Using the Super Hyway and distributed data spaces to bring the collections home

Faye Ginsburg, Centre for Media, Culture and History, New York University
Indigenous Media, Worldly Intervention, and the Creation of Transnational Alliances

David Kirkby, Batchelor College, Alice Springs & David Tafler, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA
The use of electronic media in remote Aboriginal communities

Stephen Loring Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution & Daniel Ashini Vice President, Innu Nation
Past and Future pathways: Innu Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century

Lisa Meekison, Oxford University
Playing the Olympics: performance versus the politics of representation in the Sydney Games

David Nathan, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Plugging in Indigenous knowledge, Connections and Innovations. See the full version of the paper.

Larry Zimmerman, Anthropology, University of Iowa, Leonard Bruguier, Director, Institute of American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota, and Karen P. Zimmerman, TWIST Project, University Libraries, University of Iowa, USA
Cyberspace Smoke Signals: New Technologies and Native American Ethnicity - Full version of paper

THE IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL POLICY

Zarine Cooper, Project for Indian Cultural Studies, Bombay
The Challenge of 'Backwardness': Changing Opportunities and Indentities in India

Michael Davis Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre Australian National University, Canberra
The language of absence: Descriptions of Indigenous cultural rights in Western policy - a historical perspective

Christine Fletcher, North Australia Unit of the Australian National University
The Emerging Post-national Civic Culture and its Influence on Policy in Indigenous Affairs

Ellen Lee, Aboriginal Heritage, Federal Archaeology Office, National Historic Sites, Parks Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage
Aboriginal Heritage Issues in Canadian Land Claim Negotiations

Cathryn McConaghy, Aboriginal and Multicultural Studies, University of New England
Indigenous Social Policy in Postcolonial Times

Photo: Margaret Carew and Minnie Manarrtjala in the field.
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