Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0452390

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0452390

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Cape Keerweer 1606-2006: an ethnographic history of the Wik region, Queensland. In this research with Wik Aboriginal people I investigate how key facets of the peoples' lives have changed since the first Dutch visit 400 years ago. I seek a credible empirical explanation for their descent into crisis, especially post-1978, something with wider implications for the national interest. I examine historical causes through shifts in demography, land tenure, occupations, power relations, violence, language use, and art production. From the intensely local, the past individuals and cultural landscapes of Cape Keerweer, I move outward in space and onward in time tracing gradual Wik engagement in regional, state, national and global relationships 1606-2006.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 07-2004

End Date: 06-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $625,364.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Aboriginal Studies | Linguistic Anthropology | Anthropology | Social And Cultural Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

The creative arts | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare |

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