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Aboriginal History Monographs
Aboriginal History monographs present studies on particular themes or regions, or a series of articles on single subjects of contemporary interest.
Please note: The following list of titles is sorted by publication date, with the most recent first.
The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling »
Mura track narratives from the ‘Corner Country’
The ‘Corner Country’, where Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales now converge, was in Aboriginal tradition crisscrossed by the tracks of the mura, ancestral beings, who named the country as they travelled, linking place to language.
Indigenous Biography and Autobiography »
In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies.
Transgressions »
Critical Australian Indigenous histories
This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers.
Culture in Translation »
The anthropological legacy of R. H. Mathews
R. H. Mathews (1841–1918) was an Australian-born surveyor and self-taught anthropologist. From 1893 until his death in 1918, he made it his mission to record all ‘new and interesting facts’ about Aboriginal Australia.
'The Axe Had Never Sounded' »
Place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania
‘This book meets well the triple promise of the title – the inter-connections of place, people and heritage. John Mulvaney brings to this work a deep knowledge of the history, ethnography and archaeology of Tasmania.
What Good Condition? »
Reflections on an Australian Aboriginal Treaty 1986–2006
What Good Condition? collects edited papers, initially delivered at the Treaty Advancing Reconciliation conference, on the proposal for a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, a proposal which has been discuss