MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

HSY2260

Australian Aboriginal history

Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus

Synopsis This subject will consider relations between indigenous peoples and Europeans in Australia since 1770. The main topics will include the legal basis of British sovereignty; the nature of frontier contact including conflict and accommodation; European violence and the dispossession of the indigenes; Aboriginal depopulation; indigenous responses to colonialism including resistance and their relationship to the capitalist economy; European representations of Aborigines; government policy and practice, from segregation to assimilation; and Aboriginal political movements. The subject will simultaneously examine the political and theoretical dimensions associated with representing the Australian/Aboriginal past and, in particular, the relationship between power and knowledge in the discourse of history

Assessment Tutorial participation: 10% + Written work, including document exercise (1500 words), essay (2500 words) 60% + Examination (2 hours): 30%

Prescribed texts

• Broome R Aboriginal Australians 2nd edn, Allen and Unwin, 1994
• Reynolds H (comp.) Dispossession Allen and Unwin, 1989

Recommended texts

• Attwood B (ed.) In the age of Mabo Allen and Unwin, 1995
• Markus A Governing savages Allen and Unwin, 1990
• Mulvaney D J and White J P (eds) Australians to 1788 Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, 1987
• Reynolds H Frontier Allen and Unwin, 1987
• Reynolds H The other side of the frontier Penguin, 1982
• Reynolds H With the white people Penguin, 1990