What we were told: Responses to 65,000 years of Aboriginal history

Griffiths, Billy; Russell, Lynette

doi:10.22459/ah.42.2018.02

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“…Much recent work in New Zealand, often conducted by Māori scholars, focuses on the retrieval of lost knowledge and practices, often using whakapapa and other traditional means, commonly triangulated with work found in historical manuscripts (e.g., Garlick et al., 2010; Russell, 2000; Stevens, 2006; Wehi et al., 2018). In Australia too, Indigenous researchers are using the colonial record to show the extent and diversity of Aboriginal landscape management at contact, not least as a political manoeuvre to defy persistent racist attitudes (e.g., Pascoe, 2014; for a critique of this approach, see Griffiths & Russell, 2018). Others too are re‐examining oral accounts and ethnographies from the colonial period to interpret Indigenous experiences and knowledge of geological and astronomical events (e.g., Hamacher, 2018; Harris et al., 2013; Nunn & Reid, 2016).…”

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From history of science to history of knowledge? Themes and perspectives in colonial Australasia

Beattie

Morgan

2021

History Compass

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This overview article presents some of the main approaches to histories of colonial science in Australasia as well as suggesting future areas of research. Given the plurality of knowledge systems in the colonial period, we argue that a framework defined by history of knowledge, rather than history of science, better reflects the realities of colonial Australasia and opens up opportunities for fresh and innovative scholarship. A 'history of knowledge systems' approach, we contend, has the potential to free the study of non-Western knowledge systems from normative approaches that define other systems only in relation to Western science. A history of knowledge approach, we believe, enables scholars to explore the complex ways in which knowledge-making in colonial Australasia arose from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous traditions, perspectives and practices. | INTRODUCTIONOn his return to Scotland in 1862, physician and botanist William Lauder Lindsay (1829-1880) reflected on his recent tour of New Zealand. In the 1862 pamphlet Place and Power of Natural History in Colonisation, he observed that 'the systematic, economical, and complete development of … [Otago's] resources can be effectually accomplished only by the aid of scientific observations and deductions'. Such views typified his generation's approach to science in Australasia as being primarily concerned with utilitarian matters of practical use to colonial development.For historians of science too, Lindsay's outlook reflects the predominant focus of the field in Australasia on 'science in the service of empire' during the long 19th century (e.g., Gascoigne, 1998).In this short review article, we map such approaches to the history of science in Australasia, and make a case for new directions in the field. Provocatively, we argue that rather than the frameworks traditionally offered by the history of science, the application of a history of knowledge lens would better serve historians seeking to make sense of the ways in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples interpreted and understood the natural and

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From history of science to history of knowledge? Themes and perspectives in colonial Australasia

Beattie

Morgan

2021

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“…On publication, right-wing commentators were quick to dismiss Pascoe's 'revisionism' and to launch ad hominem attacks. Scholarly engagement with Dark Emu has been slower to emerge, but is now gathering pace, 17 and a monograph published in June has reignited the controversy. Farmers or hunter-gatherers?…”

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Building culturally meaningful chronologies: negotiating Indigenous and Western temporalities in Oceania

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Russell,

Skelly

2024

Archaeology in Oceania

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This paper examines some of the ways in which Indigenous and Western archaeological chronologies are being negotiated and entwined in Oceania. Indigenous pasts are often known through oral traditions, genealogies and ancestral landscapes; these are vital pasts populated by the ancestors. The archaeological past is often interpreted through taphonomy, stratigraphy and direct dating techniques. There are tensions and intersections between these perspectives, and research partnerships between archaeologists and Indigenous communities must negotiate how to build chronologies and narrate the past. Drawing on case studies from our research in Australia and Papua New Guinea, we discuss how these seemingly different ways of knowing the past can be brought into productive conversation and how these understandings are transforming today. We argue that incorporating diverse temporalities for ancestral places can generate richer historical narratives of value to communities and researchers.

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What we were told: Responses to 65,000 years of Aboriginal history

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

From history of science to history of knowledge? Themes and perspectives in colonial Australasia

From history of science to history of knowledge? Themes and perspectives in colonial Australasia

Editorial

Building culturally meaningful chronologies: negotiating Indigenous and Western temporalities in Oceania

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