Australian Aboriginal Studies

Anthropological texts and Indigenous standpoints
Martin Nakata

3

Customary exchange in the Torres Strait
David Lawrence

13

Relations between Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea since Haddon
Bill Arthur

26

The ‘black white-man’: Torres Strait Islander and Papuan participation in the post-war pearl-shell industry
Donald M. Schug

30

N.N. Miklouho-Maclay in Torres Strait
Anna Shnukal

35

‘Bethlehem’ in Torres Strait: music, dance and Christianity in Erub (Darnley Island)
Helen Reeves Lawrence

51

Dating rock images in the tropical monsoon region of northern Australia
A.L. Watchman and R. Jones

64

A selected bibliography of the traditional languages of Torres Strait
Anna Shnukal

71

Negotiating desecration: sacred sites damage and due compensation in the Northern Territory
Andrew McWilliam

2

Demographic transition in a hunter-gatherer population: the Tiwi case, 1929-1996
Nicolas Peterson and John Taylor

11

Recognition, respect and reconciliation: steps towards decolonisation?
Richard Howitt

28

University, community and government: developing a collaborative archaeological research project in western Victoria
Caroline Bird and David Frankel

35

Anthropologists and Aborigines 65 years ago
Raymond Firth

40

A Dutch influence on Nhanda? Wanyjidaga innga!
Juliette Blevins

43