Malaguna Road

Author : Sarah Johnston Chinnery
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642106878
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malaguna Road written by Sarah Johnston Chinnery and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1998 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Australian anthropologist E.W.P. Chinnery took his young Irish bride, Sarah, to Port Moresby in 1921, she did not imagine that the island of New Guinea-one of the most extraordinary regions on earth-would become her home for the next 16 years. Already a keen photographer, Sarah began recording her experiences in a daily diary.

Author : Anne Maxwell
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839990805
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Women’s Historical Photography written by Anne Maxwell and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views examines the photographs produced by six talented women photographers against the historical backdrop of settler violence towards Indigenous Australians, the First Women’s Movement, the Great War of 1914–1918, Australia’s imperial occupation of New Guinea, the final years of Chinese Nationalist Party rule in China and debates about photography’s status as an art form. Women’s works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been down-played or even ignored in existing accounts of Australia’s cultural history, and this study is aimed at rectifying this situation. At the same time, the book demonstrates why amateur works are just as important as commercial works to our understanding of the past. ● Methodologically, the book draws on scholarship from history, art history, anthropology, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies to create an interdisciplinary critical framework that will be of interest to a broad range of academic and archival researchers. It is also a framework that is critically sensible of its own groundings in the postcolonial and feminist present thereby reflecting what is meaningful at any given historical moment. ● Finally, this book responds to the pronounced lack of visibility of Australian realist, documentary and commercial women’s works. The few histories of Australian women’s photography that exist pay more attention to modernist and contemporary works, and when they do mention earlier women photographer’s works, they seldom go into much detail. They also ignore the works of the earliest Indigenous women photographers, women who traveled and made photographs abroad. By presenting a carefully contextualized and detailed study of works by six Australian women photographers who worked in the late colonial era and whose works in all sorts of small and surprising ways chronicled the impacts of some of the periods more disturbing as well as enlightened events, we will not only add to knowledge of Australian women’s photography, we will also broaden and enrich the frames of women’s photography and Australian history more generally.

Author : R. Wally Johnson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760466042
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to Volcano Town written by R. Wally Johnson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wally Johnson and Neville Threlfall re-examine the explosive volcanic eruptions that in 1937–43 killed more than 500 people in the Rabaul area of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. They reassess this disaster in light of the prodigious amount of new scientific and disaster-management work that has been undertaken there since about 1971, when strong tectonic earthquakes shook the area. Comparisons are made in particular with volcanic eruptions in 1994–2014, when half of Rabaul town was destroyed and then abandoned. A striking feature of historical eruptive periods at Rabaul is the near‑simultaneous activity at Vulcan and Tavurvur volcanoes, on either side of Rabaul Harbour. Such rare ‘twin’ eruptions are interpreted to be the result of a common magma reservoir beneath the harbour. This interpretation has implications for ongoing hazard and risk assessments and for volcano monitoring in the area.

Author : R. Wally Johnson
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1922144231
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire Mountains of the Islands written by R. Wally Johnson and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Papua and New Guinea written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520415515
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Author : Richard F. Salisbury
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520378822
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vunamami written by Richard F. Salisbury and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vunamami attempts to isolate the dynamic that produces economic development by analyzing the interplay of forces over a ninety-year period in a village in the Tolai area of New Guinea. Theories that stress the importance of external forces in producing economic development, or contrast “traditional conservatism” with “innovative modernization,” view history through the eyes of outsiders and misconstrue the nature of traditional society. This "outside view" sees change as a result of external pressures; the “local view” regards outsiders only as triggers for processes of internal development, political initiatives, and the adaptation of technical innovations to local conditions, spurred by political entrepreneurs and technological innovators in the community . Richard F. Salisbury argues that without internal changes, technical innovations are uneconomical and destined to fail. Vunamami is optimistic about the potentialities of internal social change for producing economic development without foreign aid. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Author : Owen Genty
Publisher : Owen Genty
ISBN 13 : 9780473102296
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Planter written by Owen Genty and published by Owen Genty. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of adventure. A true account of life and work with cannibalism, helping to educate native tribes who are still living off the spear and bow and arrow, primitive and illiterate.

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824827489
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Places, Pacific Histories written by Brij V. Lal and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places matter. We are shaped by them, and in turn we shape them physically and imaginatively. They connect us to time and locality, perhaps even to life and death itself. This is a book about places and how our engagement with them--complex, changing, and varied--forms and transforms our understanding of them, of ourselves, of the human condition itself. Pacific Places, Pacific Histories brings together leading Pacific Islands studies scholars and invites them to talk about the places they have inhabited and to contemplate the meaning of that experience. The result is a veritable collage of reflections, distinct and different from each other but moving in their collective impact. Our engagement with places becomes daily more complicated with the transnational movement of peoples, ideas, technologies, and cultures. Global capitalism relentlessly alters established ethnographic assumptions about the meaning and importance of where we are and have been. The essays presented here are about letting go, learning and un-learning, transgressing physical, emotional, and intellectual boundaries. They are about personal quests, narrated in distinctive voices, raising particular concerns. Together they contribute significantly to our understanding of how small islands in a vast ocean enable us to see ourselves and the world around us.

Author : Australia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette written by Australia and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: