Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140101459

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140101459

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Goolarabooloo Culture of the Western Kimberley. With the prospect of new industries, starting with a major gas plant, the Indigenous population of Broome finds itself under pressure and internally divided. The group to be studied here, Goolarabooloo, is opposed to mining on their Dreaming. Their struggle has had the effect of reviving forms of culture, that take contemporary shape, but are always strongly linked to the traditional culture. With national and international attention focussed on Goolarabooloo, this study will analyse the transformation of this confederacy of language groups in the context of industrialisation and tourism. The output will be a first in ethnographic documentation of this culture, first recorded by Daisy Bates in 1901.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $264,511.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies | Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Socio-Cultural Issues in Tourism

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