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2. Mission-Based Indigenous Production at the Weipa Presbyterian Mission, Western Cape York Peninsula (1932–66).
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Morrison, Michael, McNaughton, Darlene, and Shiner, Justin
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CHRISTIAN missions ,INDIGENOUS peoples ,FOOD production ,HONEY - Abstract
Previous research on remote nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Indigenous missions in northern and central Australia point to their often tenuous existence and the complex nature of engagements between Christian Missionaries and Indigenous people. This paper explores the contribution and significance of Indigenous production of wild foods in the context of one such settlement located at Weipa on Cape York Peninsula, north eastern Australia. It is premised on the assertion that investigation of the economies of these often remote settlements has the potential to reveal much about the character of cross-cultural engagements within the context of early mission settlements. Many remote missions had a far from secure economic basis and were sometimes unable to produce the consistent food supplies that were central to their proselytizing efforts. In this paper it is suggested that Indigenous-produced wild foods were of significant importance to the mission on a day-to-day basis in terms of their dietary contribution (particularly in terms of protein sources) and were also important to Indigenous people from a social and cultural perspective. We develop this argument through the case study of culturally modified trees that resulted from the collection of wild honey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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3. An Irregular and Inconvenient Pile of Buildings: The Destitute Asylum of Adelaide, South Australia and the English Workhouse.
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Susan Piddock
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ASYLUMS (Institutions) ,EXCAVATION ,TUNNEL design & construction - Abstract
The Destitute Asylum of Adelaide, South Australia, was the subject of a rescue excavation in 1983. This paper seeks to explore the possibilities for further archaeological research that can arise from a reconsideration of reports generated by such excavations. Using documents, plans, photographs, and the Asylum buildings as material culture in much the same way as artifacts are used, the research focuses on the questions of space and room use within the Destitute Asylum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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4. Doing Business: Chinese and European Socioeconomic Relations in Early Cooktown.
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Rains, Kevin
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CHINESE people ,HISTORY of material culture ,ECONOMIC activity ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,HISTORY ,ETHNIC relations - Abstract
This paper is an historical archaeological examination of the socioeconomic relations of the Chinese and European communities of Cooktown in north Queensland during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It looks at the social landscape and production, exchange and consumption of material culture to show that the Chinese were not a disengaged group, as depicted in conventional understandings of colonial life, but integral to the town's socioeconomic fabric. This close relationship arose out of a process of negotiation between Chinese and Europeans which responded to the strengths, weaknesses and resources of their individual business networks, and the particular conditions of Cooktown's frontier environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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5. Under the Boards: Archaeological Site Formation Processes at the Commissariat Store, Brisbane.
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Murphy, Karen
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HISTORICAL archaeology ,RETAIL stores ,FLOODS ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,HISTORY - Abstract
The study of archaeological site formation processes, although routinely undertaken for prehistoric sites, is only carried out in historical archaeology in a limited way. Understanding the processes which formed the archaeological record of a site is an important first step towards developing justifiable inferences about past behavior and past societies regardless of the age of the site. This paper identifies and examines the cultural and non-cultural processes that formed the archaeological record at the Commissariat Store, Brisbane. The history of the site, from its construction in 1829 as part of the Moreton Bay penal settlement to the present, is examined and the expected impacts and processes on the archaeological record are identified. Archaeological evidence from the salvage excavation of the site undertaken in 1978 and 1979 is analyzed to identify the cultural and non-cultural site formation processes. This study identifies the presence of cultural formation processes including discard, loss, abandonment and re-use from an examination of the historical and archaeological evidence. Non-cultural formation processes at work in the site include faunalturbation, floralturbation, flooding, and aquaturbation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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6. Mount Shamrock: A Symbiosis of Mine and Settlement.
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Mate, Geraldine
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GOLD miners ,GOLD mining ,LANDSCAPES ,GROUP identity ,HISTORY - Abstract
Mount Shamrock township was one of the earliest gold mining towns in the Upper Burnett district of Queensland, Australia. A study of the township and associated industrial area demonstrates the integration of town and mine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper examines the relative permanence of the mining settlement and reveals a multifaceted landscape influenced not only by miners but by the women, children and other non-mining residents operating within distinct social and administrative frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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7. Landscapes of Redemption: Tracing the Path of a Convict Miner in Western Australia.
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Gibbs, Martin
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HISTORICAL archaeology ,FORMERLY incarcerated people ,LANDSCAPE archaeology ,CULTURAL landscapes ,MINERAL industries ,AUSTRALIAN history, 1788-1900 ,BIOGRAPHY (Literary form) - Abstract
This paper presents alternative readings of the archaeology of a series of nineteenth-century industrial and convict sites in the midwest region of Western Australia. In particular it employs the biography of Joseph Horrocks a former convict turned mine manager, to reinterpret the relationship between these places, considering the agency of the individual and suggesting how his experiences at some sites may have influenced him to attempt to create an idealised industrial settlement aimed at assisting with the reform of convicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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8. Lining the Path: A Seascape Perspective of Two Torres Strait Missions, Northeast Australia.
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Ash, Jeremy, Manas, Louise, and Bosun, David
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CHRISTIAN missions ,IMPERIALISM ,MARITIME history ,COLONIAL administration ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations - Abstract
This paper compares the socio-spatial characteristics of two missions dating from different periods in Torres Strait, northeastern Australia. It builds upon previous archaeological research which correlates settlement-subsistence systems with the seascape cosmologies of marine specialists. Against the backdrop of profound changes in colonial governance and religious commitment (from mission to church) from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries, we map the changing structure of two Torres Strait missions, and reflect upon these changes relative to lived sea-space. We use this approach in the belief that “local” histories provide meaningful context to broader colonial narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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9. Identifying Domination and Resistance Through the Spatial Organization of Poonindie Mission, South Australia.
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Griffin, Darren
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CHRISTIAN missions ,CULTURAL relations ,INDIGENOUS Australians ,ARCHAEOLOGY ,CAPITALISM ,IMPERIALISM - Abstract
One of the spaces where the interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups during the period of contact and cross-cultural interaction took place around the world, was at missions. In Australia, missions were founded, rearranged and closed down over a period of time in which the attitudes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups and official Government policy towards contact relationships were continually changing. By analyzing the use of these contested spaces at Australian Missions by both groups, archaeologists can begin to understand how the new relationships between these groups were negotiated, contested and played out over time. This paper analyses the use of space, using the theoretical frameworks of the archaeologies of capitalism, at Poonindie Mission in South Australia, which was established by the Anglican Church with support from the colonial government and operated between 1850 and 1896. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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10. Domains and the Intercultural: Understanding Aboriginal and Missionary Engagement at the Mornington Island Mission, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia from 1914 to 1942.
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Dalley, Cameo and Memmott, Paul
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CHRISTIAN missions ,ENGAGEMENT (Philosophy) ,ABORIGINAL Australians ,CULTURAL relations - Abstract
The Mornington Island Mission in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, was a site of historical engagement between Aboriginal people and missionaries. In this paper, we apply the theoretical concepts of “domains” and the “intercultural” to the investigation of this engagement between 1914 and 1942, when the mission was overseen by the Reverend Robert Wilson. Through the examination of the removal of Aboriginal children, the establishment of a mission compound and Aboriginal camp and the inclusion of Aboriginal adults into the mission compound through production and economy, we show how mutually constituted domains operated. At the same time, the interaction between Aboriginal adults and children with missionaries within these domains was increasingly intercultural in nature. Thus, both “domains” and the “intercultural” are shown to have relevance to the historical case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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11. Missionization in New Zealand and Australia: A Comparison.
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Middleton, Angela
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CHRISTIAN missions ,HISTORY of imperialism ,EVANGELICAL Revival ,MISSIONARIES ,HOUSEHOLDS - Abstract
This paper discusses missionization in New Zealand and Australia during the nineteenth century. Despite sharing aspects of colonial history and a geographical proximity in the South Pacific, the development of missions in both countries was disparate, leading to two very different types of missions, types I have identified as the “household” mission in New Zealand and the “institutional” mission in Australia. In both types common themes can be found, concerned with the “civilizing mission,” domesticity, and gender roles. These two types of missions were replicated in other parts of the globe, such as North America and the Pacific. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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12. Archaeologies of Cultural Interaction: Wybalenna Settlement and Killalpaninna Mission.
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Birmingham, Judy and Wilson, Andrew
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CHRISTIAN missions ,CULTURAL relations ,ABORIGINAL Australians ,SOCIAL archaeology ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,COLONIZATION - Abstract
This paper compares two contrasting Australian case studies in the archaeology of Indigenous-European interaction: one mission-like in its intent, the Aboriginal Settlement for Tasmanian Aborigines at Wybalenna on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait (1833–47), the other the Lutheran mission at Lake Killalpaninna (1867–1928) investigated by the Central Australia Archaeology Project (CAAP). Each of the two case studies adopted different strategies of investigation. Wybalenna was a small excavation while Killalpaninna was an extensive surface survey. Both studies reveal diversity in the range of responses to a missionizing program, providing evidence of agency in the formation of the archaeological record. They demonstrate the value of the material evidence and the significance of archaeology in contributing to a more sensitive understanding of the interaction process by providing an alternative to textual sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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13. Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City: Issues of Scale, Integration and Complexity.
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Tim Murray and Penny Crook
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,BUILDINGS - Abstract
Historical archaeologists have advocated the need to explore the archaeology of the modern city using several different scales or frames of reference—the household and the district being the most common. In this paper, we discuss the value of comparisons at larger scales, for example between cities or countries, as a basis for understanding archaeology of the modern western city. We argue that patterns of similarity and dissimilarity detected at these larger scales can (and should) become part of our interpretive and explanatory armoury, when it comes to understanding patterns and processes at smaller scales. However, we also believe that these larger scale enquiries do not by any means exhaust (or diminish the importance of) the site- or household-specific questions that continue to demand adequate answers. By reporting some of the thinking behind the work that has been done in Melbourne, Sydney and shortly to begin in London, we seek to more clearly establish the value of this broader comparative agenda in urban historical archaeology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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14. An Overview of Historical Archaeology in Queensland, Australia.
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Harvey, Cameron
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HISTORICAL archaeology , *ARCHAEOLOGY , *CULTURAL property , *ARCHAEOLOGISTS , *MATERIAL culture , *HISTORY - Abstract
The ability of historical archaeology to make a significant contribution to our understanding of Queensland's recent past is hindered by factors including few practitioners, limited publications about historical archaeological research and a need to establish its relevance beyond the archaeological community. There exists great opportunities in Queensland for researchers to explore a diverse range of research topics of which only some are beginning to be investigated through historical archaeological enquiry. This paper investigates the current state of the discipline in Queensland, the challenges practitioners face today and into the future, and the avenues down which historical archaeologists may make significant contributions to our understanding of Queensland's recent past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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15. Understanding Cultural History Using Ground-Penetrating Radar Mapping of Unmarked Graves in the Mapoon Mission Cemetery, Western Cape York, Queensland, Australia.
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Sutton, Mary-Jean and Conyers, Lawrence
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,INTERMENT ,ABORIGINAL Australians ,GROUND penetrating radar ,CEMETERIES ,CULTURAL property ,CHRISTIAN missions - Abstract
The Mapoon Mission Cemetery in Cape York, Queensland contains unmarked pre-contact burials with potential national heritage values, despite a lack of formal recognition and protection through State and National heritage listings. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) showed great potential as a non-intrusive technique to identify over 120 potential unmarked graves and understand mortuary practices at the Cemetery. When integrated with written and oral histories, such information provided new insights into the cultural history of this region, particularly the continuity of Aboriginal occupation and changes in mortuary practices since the establishment of the Mapoon Mission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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16. Caboonbah: The Archaeology of a Middle Class Queensland Pastoral Family.
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Terry, Linda
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COUNTRY life ,RURAL waste management ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,MIDDLE class ,HISTORY - Abstract
Pastoralism was the mainstay of the developing economy of Queensland. The men and women who owned the pastoral properties were mainly from upper and middle class English and Scottish families. One such family, the Somersets, occupied Caboonbah, a pastoral property in the Brisbane Valley of Queensland in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Excavation of the rubbish gully associated with the homestead provided material evidence of how this family adhered to the tenets of middle class family life while living in an isolated rural area and contending with the fluctuating fortunes of life on the land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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17. Economy and Respectability: Textiles from the North Brisbane Burial Ground.
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Prangnell, Jonathan and McGowan, Glenys
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BURIAL clothing ,CEMETERIES ,TEXTILES ,INTERMENT ,COFFINS ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,NINETEENTH century ,HISTORY - Abstract
Textile remains were discovered during a salvage excavation at the site of the North Brisbane Burial Ground, a nineteenth-century cemetery in the city of Brisbane, Australia. Ninety-six textile samples were collected at excavation, comprising 39 twill weaves, 17 tabby weaves, one haircord weave, one satin weave, three knitted fabrics, one piece of felt and 34 masses of loose wool packing. Most of the woven textiles recovered were coffin coverings or coffin linings. Similarly, the majority of non-woven textile samples were also associated with coffins and their dressing. Five of the identified textiles were likely to have been fragments of garments worn by the deceased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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18. What's in a Name? Beyond The Mary Watson Stories to a Historical Archaeology of Lizard Island.
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Waterson, Paddy, Waghorn, Anita, Swartz, Julie, and Brown, Ross
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HISTORICAL archaeology ,TREPANG ,TREPANG fisheries ,HISTORY - Abstract
Preliminary historical archaeological research on Lizard Island in far north Queensland is enabling the Queensland Government to develop more effective management strategies for on-site interpretation of the historical precinct of Watsons Bay. Although popularly associated with the north Queensland colonial heroine Mary Watson, the Bay can now be understood as a large multilayered cultural landscape with meaning to a wide variety of groups. The common aspects of the three known beche-de-mer operations that occupied the Bay between 1860 and 1881 and the nature of the emerging archaeological record afford many opportunities for scaled archaeological research. It further highlights aspects of historical archaeological theory and the relationship between the discipline and the historical record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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19. Fences, Boats and Teas: Engendering Patient Lives at Peel Island Lazaret.
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Youngberry, April and Prangnell, Jonathan
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HANSEN'S disease patients ,HOSPITALS ,AGENT (Philosophy) ,GENDER ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,MEDICAL care ,HISTORY - Abstract
Within institutions, a separate social world comes into existence. Gender is a crucial shaper of relations in this new world, defining status, relationships to others and personal identity. Understanding the gendered conditions of, and responses to, institutional care is an important social contribution of historical archaeology to contemporary society. Research on the Peel Island Lazaret in Moreton Bay, Queensland, uses a model for engendering archaeology, with modifications pertinent to historical archaeology. Analysis builds on the work of others who have investigated the ways in which men and women of the confined and confining classes experienced institutions and interacted with each other. This study also extends beyond these approaches in exploring the areas of 'interpersonal agency' and relationship building, and the ways in which disadvantage minimization was mediated by the structuring principle of gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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20. Household Archaeology, Lifecycles and Status in a Nineteenth-Century Australian Coastal Community.
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Prossor, Lauren, Lawrence, Susan, Brooks, Alasdair, and Lennon, Jane
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HOUSEHOLD archaeology ,HOUSEHOLDS ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL assemblages ,HOME furnishings ,CERAMICS ,FAMILY size ,SOCIAL status ,LIFE cycles (Biology) - Abstract
The analysis of a ceramic assemblage from a late nineteenth-century site in a coastal town near Melbourne, Australia, is used to explore issues relating to household cycles and comparative status. Acquisition of household goods closely matches the stages of growth and decline in family size and the nature of the assemblage has directed further research into the relative status of the family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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21. Poverty in the Modern City: Retrospects and Prospects.
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Murray, Tim
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URBAN poor ,CITIES & towns ,POVERTY ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL assemblages ,ECONOMIC impact of emigration & immigration ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,HISTORY - Abstract
The outcome of over fifteen years research on large urban assemblages from the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne is discussed in terms of approaches to the archaeology of the modern city as they have evolved over the period. To better understand the archaeology of urban poverty we require innovations in both methods and ideas, the most far-reaching being a transnational archaeology of urban poverty founded on the analysis of migration, consumption and class formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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22. Poverty in Depth: New International Perspectives.
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Giles, Kate and Jones, Sarah
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URBAN poor ,SLUMS ,HOUSING ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,AUSTRALIAN history ,HISTORY - Abstract
This volume on the archaeology of urban poverty arises from a three-day symposium hosted by York Archaeological Trust and the University of York in July 2009 to establish the wider intellectual framework for the investigation of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century archaeology of the Hungate neighborhood of York. In this opening article, the trajectory of medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Britain is contrasted with historical archaeology in the United States and Australia, and the influence of the pre-modern history of the Hungate neighborhood on its development since 1800 is explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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23. Poverty in Depth: a New Dialogue.
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Walker, John, Beaudry, Mary, and Wall, Diana
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POVERTY ,HOUSING ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,ARCHAEOLOGY ,SLUMS ,HISTORY ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
This reflective piece draws together the themes and issues presented within the volume, exploring historic and contemporary definitions and attitudes towards poverty and their implications of the archaeological study of 'slum' neighborhoods. It compares and contrasts the individual case studies from York and Manchester with investigations in America and Australia, drawing attention to the differences between them. Suggestions are made for future investigations, particularly in the potential for further comparative work at an international level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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24. Destitute Women and Smoking at the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, Australia.
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Davies, Peter
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WOMEN immigrants ,POOR women ,INSTITUTIONALIZED persons ,SMOKING ,PIPE smokers ,IMMIGRANTS ,ASYLUMS (Institutions) ,PUBLIC institutions ,TOBACCO pipes - Abstract
The Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Australia, was established in 1819 to accommodate male convicts, but in later years the building served as a depot for immigrant women (1848-86) and as an asylum for destitute women (1862-86). The occupation of the latter group in particular resulted in the loss of large numbers of clay tobacco pipes under the floorboards. The quantity and distribution of the pipes is used here to examine smoking behavior among the destitute female inmates, and to assess their relationships with each other and the institution in which they were confined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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25. From Mission to Maynggu Ganai: The Wellington Valley Convict Station and Mission Site.
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Ireland, Tracy
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CHRISTIAN missions ,CULTURAL relations ,WIRADJURI (Australian people) ,ABORIGINAL Australians ,HISTORIC sites - Abstract
The Wellington Valley Convict Station and Mission site, now known as Maynggu Ganai Historic Site (meaning “people’s land” in local Wiradjuri language), contains the archaeological remains of the convict agricultural station that was established in 1823. The site, subsequently taken over by the Anglican Church Missionary Society as a mission to the Wiradjuri, operated from 1832 to 1844. Drawing upon archaeological survey, the extraordinary historical archive associated with this site, and an analysis of community consultative research, this article explores the role of this site in colonial cultural exchange, as well as the contemporary cultural meanings of this history and its physical remains for the community today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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26. Memories of the Past, Visions of the Future: Changing Views of Ebenezer Mission, Victoria, Australia.
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Lydon, Jane and Burns, Alan
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CHRISTIAN missions ,ABORIGINAL Australians ,IMPERIALISM ,PRESERVATION of historic sites ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL surveying - Abstract
Former missions and reserves occupy an increasingly important place in Australian Aboriginal heritage, as sites of recent memory, ancestral resting-places, and the foci of social action in the present. Since the 1970s heritage managers have drawn heavily upon archaeological research in reclaiming places such as Ebenezer Mission for Aboriginal descendants as well as the non-Aboriginal community. This program of research and conservation has been shaped by Aboriginal memories and values that express the community’s self-understandings and its hopes for the future, in a process that reveals the relationship between tangible and intangible aspects of the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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27. The Wreck of the Ex-Slaver James Matthews.
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Graeme Henderson
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SHIPWRECKS ,SLAVE traders ,SLAVERY - Abstract
Abstract This contribution presents the progress of investigations into the wreck of the ex-slave ship James Matthews, wrecked off Western Australia in 1841. The James Matthews wreck site preserves many elements of the vessel’s structure, with the result that the basic architecture of an actual transport vehicle of the Middle Passage has been recorded in detail and can be analyzed in depth by maritime archaeologists working in tandem with naval architects. The discovery of the James Matthews wreck has made possible cross-disciplinary research of a type not previously feasible for the illegal period of slavery in the Atlantic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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28. The Old Kinchega Homestead: Doing Household Archaeology in Outback New South Wales, Australia.
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Penelope M. Allison
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SOCIAL engineering (Political science) ,DOCUMENTARY evidence ,TWENTIETH century - Abstract
The Kinchega Pastoral Station in western New South Wales, Australia, was one of the earliest and largest in the area. A study of one of the station's homestead is demonstrating how the integration and negotiation of material and documentary evidence produces information on domestic behavior in rural Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and highlights the activities of women and children in an environment whose history has been dominated by the exploits of men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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29. Introduction and Historical Context for the Archaeology of Institutions of Reform. Part I: Asylums.
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Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood and Sherene Baugher
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ARCHAEOLOGY ,RESEARCH ,AUXILIARY sciences of history - Abstract
This introduction discusses the western cultural context that connects the following three articles of site-specific research on the Adelaide Destitute Asylum in South Australia, the Ross Female Factory (prison) in Tasmania and the Magdalen Asylum in Philadelphia. These institutions are a few of the many types of nineteenth century asylums and prisons. Although some research issues are raised the purpose of this introduction is to provide a general historical context for the different research designs which are presented in the articles. While this introduction provides a largely ungendered historical background from ungendered sources, the companion feminist commentary following the articles addresses the gendered historical context and the feminist issues in the articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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