Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Modern archaeology and its reflection in the value system of contemporary culture based on anthropological /archaeological research conducted in Australia / Boris Deunert

Modern archaeology and its reflection in the value system of contemporary culture based on anthropological /archaeological research conducted in Australia / Boris Deunert

Examines a range of themes related to the relation between archaeological research and Aboriginal knowledge and aspirations; critical, ethical and professional change on Australian anthropology - role in land rights movement; questionnaire and interview methodology; development of archaeology in Australia - biological, cultural/linguistic and archaeological evidence for the origin of Aboriginal peoples - includes discussion of migration, Pleistocene sites and settlement patterns; reviews stone tool technology and rock art studies; history of Aboriginal social status and its impact on attitudes to archaeology; traditional society, contact and post-colonial history; contemporary political, economic and health status; attitudes to Aborigines - responses to questionnaire discussed; problems within contemporary Aboriginal cultural aspirations; Aboriginal cultural awareness and representation in wider society; Aboriginal attitudes to archaeological and anthropological research surveyed; answers to questionnaire evaluated; experiments in stone tool manufacture; argues that archaeological knowledge has an important role in the development of the new Aboriginal identity through collaborative research; research - philosophies and fieldwork methods; research ethics; neo - traditionalism; social identity - Aboriginality; general accounts of Aboriginal culture; white beliefs, attitudes and stereotypes about Aborigines; race relations - White/Aboriginal