Faculty of Arts and Society

The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s App...

We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every cl...

  This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia's history. Deftly weaving t...

A crocodile pulls a sleeping man into the river by one leg. Another breaks the neck of a swimming policeman. An out-of-luck miner drowns himself in...

The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to the country’s most remote Aboriginal communities. Beset by social problems, the com...

Over the past four decades Aboriginal people living in remote and regional Australia have been empowered by land rights and native title laws to cl...

In this accessible and provocative analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism the author applies academic training and cultural knowledge in ...

In the Northern Territory, politics isn't a numbers game, it's a blood sport. The recent goings-on in Top End politics make the Rudd, Gillard, Abbo...

  Thoroughly updated and revised, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 7th Edition presents a comprehensive and fully updated introduction to the...

Larrakia tell their grandchildtren Dreamtime Stories so they can pass on the information of how the ancestral spirits created the animals, insects,...

Larrakia tell their grandchildtren Dreamtime Stories so they can pass on the information of how the ancestral spirits created the animals, insects,...

Larrakia tell their grandchildtren Dreamtime Stories so they can pass on the information of how the ancestral spirits created the animals, insects,...

Yolgnu Languages and Culture Reference Book Wangurri

How Aborigines made Australia Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy p...

Provides an early record of the people of the Musgrave, Mann and Tomkinson Ranges (now known as the the Antakarinja, Yankuntjatjara, Luritja and Pi...

Southeast Asia is a vast and complex region, comprising countries with remarkably diverse histories and cultures. Jacques Bertrand provides a fresh...

A Charles Darwin University academic has shed light on the death of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, whose disappearance in the Outback has remained a m...

Larrakia tell their grandchildtren Dreamtime Stories so they can pass on the information of how the ancestral spirits created the animals, insects,...

Larrakia tell their grandchildtren Dreamtime Stories so they can pass on the information of how the ancestral spirits created the animals, insects,...

Larrakia tell their grandchildtren Dreamtime Stories so they can pass on the information of how the ancestral spirits created the animals, insects,...

Larrakia tell their grandchildtren Dreamtime Stories so they can pass on the information of how the ancestral spirits created the animals, insects,...

In Australia, a "tribe" of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book ...