The secret life of memorials : : through the memory lens of the Australian South Sea islanders / / Julie Kaye Mitchell.

Focussing on the Australian South Sea Islander minority community this volume employs a variety of theoretical arguments in order to contribute a new method for comprehending the many interleaving aspects of memory spaces, and should be of interest to heritage professionals, local councils and gover...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Archaeopress Archaeology,, [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (201 pages) :; illustrations (some color), charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents Page
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1: Research Introduction
  • 1.1 Introduction - Research Overview
  • 1.2 Research Aims
  • 1.3 Research Questions
  • 1.4 Research Design
  • 1.5 Overview of the Structure of the Research
  • 1.6 Notes on Terminology
  • 1.7 Memorials / Monuments
  • 1.8 Conclusion
  • Figure 1.1: The Western South Pacific Ocean in relation to Australia (www.geographicguide.com)
  • Figure 1.2: South Sea Islands Labour Group in Daintree, Queensland 1870 (State Library of Queensland, Negative No: 189100)
  • Figure 1.3: Recruiting ship 'Para' by Ship Captain Wawn, 1880 (State Library of Queensland, Negative No: 65320)
  • Figure 1.4: South Sea Islanders on a labour vessel (State Library of Queensland, Negative No: 16954)
  • Figure 1.5: Vanuatuan sand drawing of labour ship (Author's photo 2 June 2012)
  • Figure 1.6: History culture example - Islander Commemoration Festival 2013 ( www.assis.org.au )
  • Figure 2.1: Cartoon in The Bulletin 1886 of auction of South Sea Islander (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Figure 2.2: South Sea Islanders outside of a plantation building ca. 1870 (State Library of Queensland, Negative no: 189100)
  • Figure 2.3: South Sea Islanders Queensland, 1906 (State Library of Queensland, Negative no: 23815)
  • Figure 2.4: WANTOK Representatives (SBS News 7 November 2013)
  • Figure 2.5: The Isis Memorial Childers, Queensland (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 2.6: Islander traffic routes 1863 to 1902, from "The Blackbirders" (Docker 1970)
  • Figure 2.7: Islanders waiting for deportation in Cairns 1906 (State Library of Queensland, Negative no: 23842)
  • Figure 2.8: Board Game copyrighted in 1914 (National Archives Australia ID: 3423240).
  • Figure 2.9: Bundaberg South Sea Islanders Anniversary Festival Poster 2013 (Bundaberg Regional Council)
  • Figure 2.10: Islands visited by labour vessel Ariel in 1893 (Queensland State Archives, Item ID1235095, Correspondence)
  • Figure 2.11: Fairymead Mill, Bundaberg, c 1890 (Queensland State Archives, Image ID 3511)
  • Figure 2.12: South Sea Islander Huts, Childers 1904 (Queensland Historical Atlas from University of Queensland)
  • Figure 2.13: Pacific Islands Collection Adelaide Museum (Author's photo 16 March 2012)
  • Figure 2.14: Islanders in mixed European and Traditional attire, Mackay 1890 (State Library of Queensland, Negative No: 13355)
  • Figure 2.15: Yasso Point, named in memory of Mackay South Sea Islander couple (Author's photo 9 May 2013)
  • Figure 3.1: 'Ceremony with Turtle' by Andrew Tovovur (Author's photo 3 June 2012)
  • Figure 3.2: Mossman Canecutters Memorial (Author's photo 1 April 2012)
  • Figure 3.3: Integral grouping of aspects surrounding the ASSI labour event (past)
  • Figure 3.4: Integral grouping of attached themes determined from literatures (present)
  • Figure 3.5: Quadrant 1 - Quadrant 2
  • Figure 3.6: Quadrant 3 - Quadrant 4
  • Figure 3.7: Quadrant 1 - Quadrant 3
  • Figure 3.8: Quadrant 2 - Quadrant 4
  • Figure 3.9: Quadrant 2 - Quadrant 3
  • Figure 3.10: Quadrant 1 - Quadrant 4
  • Figure 4.1: Locations of thesis ASSI memory sites (detailed in Table 4.3)
  • Figure 4.2: ASSI Descendant Groups (in red - see key) set against historic Australian sugar cane cultivation areas of 1874 and 1884 (Griggs 2011:47)
  • Figure 4.3: Data entry template
  • Figure 4.4: Example of a statue memorial - The 'The Hoe Man' - Gordonvale
  • Figure 4.5: South Sea Islander Honour Roll
  • Figure 4.6: Chindera Cemetery
  • Figure 4.7: Ingham Immigrant Remembrance Wall
  • Figure 5.1: Buderim Kanaka Wall on Escarpment.
  • Figure 5.2: Yasso Point Marker, Bowen
  • Figure 5.3: Yasso Point Cairn, Bowen
  • Figure 5.4: Yasso Point Shelter And History Board, Bowen
  • Figure 5.5: Maryborough Kanaka Memorial
  • Figure 5.6: Point Vernon Cemetery signpost (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 5.7: North Queensland ASSI Fishery Falls Monument
  • Figure 5.8: 1880 SSI Specimens mixed (State Library of Queensland, Brandon album, ID 6298-0001-0020)
  • Figure 5.9: Gordonvale mosaic (Author's photo 21 June 2016)
  • Figure 5.10: 'River Reflections' mosaic panels - Innisfail
  • Figure 5.11: 'Take Me Too' tile and plaque (Author's photo 18 February 2014)
  • Figure 5.12: Childers Memorial Totem metal engraving (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 5.13: Forgotten People monument, Mackay (Author's photo 8 May 2013)
  • Figure 5.14: Interpretive Tree Guide, Mackay (Author's photo 8 May 2013)
  • Figure 5.15: Polson Cemetery, Point Vernon (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 6.1: Kanaka Monument (John Thompson) - Childers
  • Figure 6.2: John Thompson Memorial, Childers (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 6.3: Port Douglas Sugar Wharf(s)
  • Figure 6.4: Sugar Cube Memorial, Mackay
  • Figure 6.5: Oaklands Sugar Mill Remnants, Morayfield
  • Figure 6.6: Habana Tramline Causeway and Wharf Site details
  • Figure 6.7: South Sea Islanders' Sugar Wagon Trail - Yeppoon
  • Figure 6.8: Islander-built trail, Yeppoon
  • Figure 6.9: South Sea Islander Stone Wall - Mon Repos
  • Figure 6.10: Sunnyside Sugar Plantation (former) remains
  • Figure 6.11: Stone wall in farmland, Bargara (Author's photo 26 October 2013)
  • Figure 6.12: Replica stone wall, Bundaberg (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 6.13: Fitzgerald Landing Cairn, Innisfail
  • Figure 6.14: Old and new cairns, Fitzgerald Landing, Innisfail (Author's photo 21 June 2016).
  • Figure 6.15: Chjowai memorial, Innisfail (Author's photo 21 June 2013)
  • Figure 6.16: Pioneers Of The Sugar Industry Memorial - Innisfail
  • Figure 7.1: 'Forty-year-old white actor dressing up as a 14-year-old Tongan boy in brown face' (Bolitho 2014 - Image courtesy buzzed.com)
  • Figure 7.2: Bowen South Sea Islander Mural
  • Figure 7.3: Close up of local identities cameos on Bowen wall mural (Image courtesy http://www.robcaz.net/bowen.htm )
  • Figure 7.4: Cane farmer statue and mosaic, Gordonvale (Author's photo 21 June 2016)
  • Figure 7.5: Gordonvale mosaic - 'SUGAR - NATURE'S SWEET GIFT'
  • Figure 7.6: Example of interpretive board, Cairns Esplanade
  • Figure 7.7: Robert Towns statue, Townsville, QLD (Author's photo 10 May 2013)
  • Figure 7.8: Robert Towns statue with interpretive board, Townsville (Author's photo 10 May 2013)
  • Figure 7.9: Mossman Cane Cutters Memorial
  • Figure 7.10: South Sea Islander Totems, Childers (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 7.11: The Isis Kanaka Story - Childers
  • Figure 7.12: South Sea Islander Totems - Childers
  • Figure 7.13: Mackay South Sea Islander Canecutter Memorial
  • Figure 7.14: South Sea Islander (KANAKA) Memorial
  • Figure 7.15: Buderim Reconciliation At St Marks
  • Figure 7.16: Buderim South Sea Islander Memorial
  • Figure 7.17: Chindera Corowa Park
  • Figure 7.18: Corowa Park dedication newspaper clipping (Tweed Regional Museum)
  • Figure 8.1: Mackay Lagoons ASSI Meeting House, exterior-interior (Author's photos 8 May 2013)
  • Figure 8.2: Mackay Sugar Mill, from the Mackay Lagoons Meeting House (Author's photo 8 May 2013)
  • Figure 8.3: ASSI Original Family Trees Plantings 'The Forgotten People'
  • Figure 8.4: Mackay Homebush Mission Hall
  • Figure 8.5: St. John's Mission Church
  • Figure 8.6: Bundaberg Cemetery (Google Earth image 8 August 2008).
  • Figure 8.7: South Sea Islander Church And Hall - Bundaberg Cemetery
  • Figure 8.8: Underground oven 'cuppa murri', Bundaberg (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 8.9: Wood carvings, Bundaberg (Author's photo, 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 8.10: SSI Heritage and Community Complex layout, Bundaberg (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 8.11: Canecutter memorial, Point Vernon (Author's photo 23 October 2013)
  • Figure 8.12: Commemoration service honouring unmarked ASSI graves at Sunnyside Plantation, Bundaberg
  • Figure 8.13: Cudgeon Burial Ground, Chindera
  • Figure 8.14: Joskeleigh (Sandhills) Historical South Sea Islander Cemetery
  • Figure 8.15: Joskeleigh South Sea Islander Museum
  • Figure 8.16: Australian Sugar Heritage Centre (Museum) - Mourilyan 'South Seas
  • Figure 8.17: Refined White Exhibition
  • Figure 8.18: Display examples in the Australian Sugar Heritage Centre, Mourilyan (Author's photo 28 December 2012 )
  • Figure 8.19: 'Behind The Cane - The Untold Story Of South Sea Islanders In Australia' Musical
  • Figure 8.20: Romancing The Cane Festival
  • Figure 8.21: Integral grouping of ASSI-related memory sites as nodes in networked relationships
  • Figure A4_1
  • Figure A4_2
  • Chapter 2: Research Context - Literatures
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.1.1 The ASSI Cultural Landscape and Heritage Paradox
  • 2.2 Paradox One: The Song Of Homer
  • 2.2.1 Historical Representation
  • 2.2.2 Historiographical Representation
  • 2.2.3 Concluding the Song of Homer
  • 2.3 Paradox Two: The Ship of Theseus
  • 2.3.1 Material Representation
  • 2.3.2 Entangled / Shared Material Culture
  • 2.3.3 A Rudderless Ship
  • 2.4 Conclusion
  • Table 2.1: Australian Acts Specific to South Sea Islands Labour (Queensland Government State Archives)
  • Chapter 3: Theoretical Concepts - Liminal Spaces
  • 3.1 Introduction.
  • 3.2 What Is Memory From An Archaeological Viewpoint?.