I first came across Elizabeth Furniss and her work when attending NARU's Frontier
symposium in Darwin in late 1999. At the time I was in the final throes of a PhD on a …

These two fine and complementary anthropological works show the hegemony of Anglo
Canadians to be similar to that of Anglo-Australians here. The history of immigration is …

The idea of the frontier reflects a uniquely colonial view of a place and process of encounter
between colonising people, indigenous inhabitants, and natural landscapes. 1 Within this …

Our Forest of Kwara'ae, an equally remarkablc volume, is a major exposition of Kwara'ae
knowledge about thc animals and plants of their island's forest and how these sustain the …

In a chapter entitled The Landscape of Public History: Pioneers, Progress, and the Myth of
the Frontier, Furniss introduces the reader to a colonial mentality with a distinctive difference …

Popular images of contemporary Canada paint a picture that is often naively presumed to be
one of a modern postcolonial nation-state: a territory previously optimized as a settler …

University of Northern British Columbia n6 BC STUDIES this historical discourse has come
to shape, and be shaped by, contemporary racialized politics in the central Interior …

This book puts paid to any illusion that across Canada'colonialism'is a thing of the past.
Whatever the situation may be in the official Canada of Ottawa or in the metropolises, the …

This book is a significant study of a colonial encounter in a little known (especially in
America) part of Australia, the desert of Central Australia. It describes mostly sheep-keeping …

The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community. Page
1 222 american ethnologist cannot point to a proper nation-state of origin. Thus, for instance …