Lecture 3: Australian and European Meanings of Land

In this lecture, Richard talks about the meaning of land in Aboriginal and European cultures.

 

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Pandak’s Cosmos

Stanner, W.E.H., White Man Got No Dreaming: Essays 1938-1973, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1979.

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Mokare Nyungar (also spelt Noongar) man born 1795. 
Hand-coloured lithograph of Menang leader Mokare by Louis de Sainson, published in 1833

Ferguson, W. C., ‘Mokaré’s domain’, in Mulvaney, D. J. and White, J. P., Australians to 1788, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, Sydney, 1987, pp. 121–45.

 

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Mokare’s Estate and Range

Further Reading

[00:11:34] Sketch of Billibellari (also spelt Billibellary) signatory of Batman Treaty by William Thomas

[00:12:45] William Thomas
Further Reading

[00:13:52] The Aboriginal Clans of Central Victoria, Diane Barwick (1984)

Rebellion at Coranderrk Aboriginal History Monograph

Map of the Kulin Nation

[00:15:08]  Diane Barwick, ‘Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans, 1835-1904’ Aboriginal History 8 (pt 2), 1984), pp. 100-131.

[00:22:20] The Dreaming 1953 – William Stanner

 

[00:24:56] Artwork depicting the story of Guwak Bird by Manggalili man and painter Narritjin Maymuru (1916-1981) titled ‘Dreaming at Djarrakpi’ (1974).

 

[00:27:40] Eora language map

[00:28:10] Broome refers to an early sketch by William Lycett ‘Material Life.’ 

He might have meant Joseph Lycett (1774-1828) because the style of Joseph’s art is closer to the art Broome presents in his lecture. https://www.nla.gov.au/sites/default/files/thelycettalbum.pdf

Further information

[00:28:52]  Famous poet and artist William Blake’s engraving based on a sketch by Governor F.G. King titled ‘A Family of New South Wales’ (1795) 

Predominantly Fishers

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[00:30:50] Cour-Rou-Gari-Gal 1788 by French artist Nicholas Petit

[00:35:50] Initiation ceremony by convict artist Thomas Watling, 1795

[00:36:07] Dutch World Map 1607

[00:39:36] Alan Frost

[00:40:39] British land holding pyramid

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[00:43:55] – Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire

45:07 – Churchill

[00:52:34] William Cobbet ‘Rural Rides’ written 1822-26. Published in two books (1830).

FURTHER READING

  • Diane Barwick, ‘Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans, 1835-1904’ Aboriginal History 8 (pt 2), 1984, pp. 100-131.
  • W.C. Ferguson, ‘ Mokare’s Domain’, D. J. Mulvaney and P. White, (eds), Australians to 1788, 1987, pp.120-145.
  • J. K. Kohen and R. Lampert, ‘Hunters and fishers in the Sydney Region’, in D. J. Mulvaney and P. White, (eds), Australians to 1788, 1987, pp.342-367.
  • Frank Huggett, The Land Question and European Society, 1975
  • Harold Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880, 1972