The Wentworth Lectures: Honouring fifty years of Australian Indigenous Studies
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Wentworth Lectures: Honouring fifty years of Australian Indigenous Studies
By (Author) Robert Tonkinson
Aboriginal Studies Press
Aboriginal Studies Press
1st November 2015
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Gender studies: women and girls
305.89915
Physical Properties
Paperback
176
Width 152mm, Height 230mm
Description
The Wentworth Lectures honour the contribution of Sir William (Bill) Wentworth to the creation of AIATSIS in 1964; now a world-renowned research, collecting and publishing organisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander cultures, traditions, languages and stories. This collection reflects the changing values in society and the evolution of ethical research in Australia. They are a fitting symbol of Australias maturing nationhood and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first peoples of the land, of their resilience and journey to reclaim and preserve their identity, their histories, their cultural heritage - their stories. In the thirty-six years since the first lecture, there have been eighteen Wenthworth lecturers, all of whom were given full rein as to the topic and content. To some extent all deal with wider political, social and economic, and in some cases, religious, factors. Taken together, they are a veritable whos who of the leading intellectuals in the field.
Author Bio
Editor Bob Tonkinson was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia before retirement in 2004. He has had a fifty-year association with Western Desert's Martu people.
