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Deborah Bird Rose

Deborah Bird Rose was an anthropologist and a Visiting Fellow in the History Department, Australian National University, where she was writing a history of Aboriginal people on Victoria River Downs and Wave Hill stations.

Deborah Bird Rose reviews 'Encounters in Place: Outsiders and Aboriginal Australians' by D.J. Mulvaney

December 1989–January 1990, no. 117 01 December 1989
Professor Mulvaney’s thematic history of encounters between outsiders and Aboriginal Australians is developed through a discussion of events located in specific places. He has selected places which are in the Register of the National Estate (many of which he initially nominated) or are being considered for inclusion. The places, then, are by definition part of Australia’s cultural heritage, an ... (read more)