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ItemObject lessons : public history in Melbourne 1887-1935(University of Melbourne, 2000)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableRebuilding Melbourne : modernity and progress in the central business district, 1910-50(University of Melbourne, 2001)
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ItemPET soft drink bottle waste managment in Fiji : seeking sustainable solutions(University of Melbourne, 2005)
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ItemDr Leonhard Adam and his ethnographic collection at the University of Melbourne : volume one(University of Melbourne, 2009)This thesis argues for the importance of certain forms of knowledge transmission that, while effective and persuasive in dialogues about identity and survival, are not included in the accepted canonical discussions regarding the development of knowledge about Indigenous communities in the twentieth century. Using the Leonhard Adam Collection of International Indigenous Culture at the University of Melbourne as both a focus and a point of departure, this study examines how the collection and trade in ethnographic objects supported the development of programs, theories and systems that explored concepts of cultural destruction, survival and rejuvenation. In Australia, such discussions were keenly pursued outside, or tangentially to, those official custodians of such knowledge, the institutions of the university and the museum, and involved three groups: Germans with Jewish heritage, Australian women and Aboriginal Australians. Leonhard Adam (1891-1960) lived during the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century. Using his experiences and work in developing an ethnographic collection at the University, this study shows how the collection and celebration of Australian ethnographic material was part of social comment that influenced social policy, and contributed to the development of Australian visual culture. While Adam�s European sensibilities and expectations were sometimes at odds with those with whom he worked, his academic and social networks enabled him to interact with a broad range of individuals who were interested in Aboriginal art, culture and social issues. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Adam sought to propel this local experience into the international arena. He introduced Aboriginal art into ethnographic collections and ethnographic and art historical discourse across the globe. This thesis assesses the contribution made by Leonhard Adam, and the collection he built at the University of Melbourne, to the development of intellectual, political and social spaces where Aboriginal art could be described, traded and celebrated. The study confirms that the trade in Indigenous cultural material in the middle of the twentieth century helped to conceptualise and support models of Indigenous economic empowerment and cultural sustainability that are operating today.
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ItemDisease and the deity : medicine and the divine in early Greek literature and myth(University of Melbourne, 2006)
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ItemElizabeth Barnston Parnell : the making of a patentee in colonial Australia.(University of Melbourne, 2000)
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ItemHigh strangeness : a Lacanian cultural history of UFO's and ufology(University of Melbourne, 2007)
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ItemSufficient grace(University of Melbourne, 2005)
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ItemFrank Moorhouse in the seventies(University of Melbourne, 2001)
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ItemLost saw-toothed landscapes and subjectivities : recovering narratives of Melbourne's industrial western suburbs(University of Melbourne, 2008)