Issue 1

Editorial

1

Articles

Participation, power and social research in Central Australia
Richard Howitt, Greg Crough and Bill Pritchard

2

Progress and prospects in Aboriginal social impact assessment
Helen Ross

11

The problem with ‘problematising research’
Maggie Brady

18

What are silica skins and how are they important in rock art conservation?
Alan Watchman

21

Research Communications

Why are so many ancient rock paintings red?
Nick Cook, Iain Davidson and Stephen Sutton

30

Dating shell middens: quickly and cheaply
David Frankel and Andrew Story

33

Implementation of the Community Development Employment Scheme in Fitzroy Crossing: a preliminary report
Bernard Moiw

36

Book Reviews

41

Obituaries

70

• Tony Gangele
• Ronald M Berndt

Comment

72

Issue 2

Editorial

1

Articles

Wentworth Lecture. ‘Studying man and man’s nature’: the history of the institutionalisation of Aboriginal anthropology
Nicolas Peterson

3

Mainstreaming as assimilation in the Northern Territory
Martin Mowbray

20

Emergent genres of reportage and advocacy in the Pitiantjatjara print media
Cliff Goddard

27

Research Communications

The economic future of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Jon Altman

48

Emiyenggal and Batjemal folk classifications, Cox Peninsula, Northern Territory: ‘figuring’ continuity and contingency
Elizabeth Povinelli

53

The Silver Dollar site, Shark Bay: an interim report
Sandra Bowdler

60

The cave petroglyphs of Australia
Robert Bednarik

64

Book Reviews

69

News and information

87

Comment

92

Obituaries

95

• Ronald Murray Berndt
• Rolly Gilbert