The notion of 'race' was central to the thinking about and administration of Aboriginal affairs in the 1930s, but its meaning was fluid. In many respects Auber Octavius Neville, senior bureaucrat in Western Australia from 1915-1940 and a national figure in Aboriginal affairs during that period, was emblematic of the race thinking of the period. This study looks at the Western Australian Moseley Royal Commission of 1934, the Western Australian Parliamentary debates and legislation of 1929 and 1936, the Canberra Conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal Authorities in 1937, and Neville's 1947 book, Australia's Coloured Minority - for their exemplification of race thinking. Basic incompatibilities and inconsistencies, as evidenced in Neville's thinking and action across his career, were common in the period. Neville's central administrative desire was to force biological absorption to its ultimate conclusion - the 'Destiny' of Aborigines of the part descent was to be absorbed biologically into the white community. He used scientific support to 'prove' the 'safety' of this strategy. The central premise of Neville's race thinking, however, was that some form of racial essentialism would always negatively impact upon the 'absorption' of Aborigines into white Australia. Other major figures differed with Neville over the suitability of absorption, notably Queensland Chief Protector, J. W. Bleakley, but still believed in some essential 'Aboriginal-ness'. The thesis also traces Neville's attempts to dominate Aboriginal affairs both in the construction of the 'problem' and in proclaiming solutions. Neville was absolutely certain that his solution was the only way forward. This certainty, when added to the inconsistent notions of race that informed his conceptualisation of the 'problem', produced policies and practices of insurmountable internal contradictions that have profoundly affected generations of Aborigines.

Thesis--Technische Universität Berlin, 1972.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1957. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 524-529).

Thesis (Doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München, 1983.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 418-440).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 438-460).

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the possibility that there are other ways in which to represent the past, not just the traditional way as practised by historians. For instance, other forms such as historical fiction in the historical novel, and therefore, narrative, can act as an important conduit for conveying historical meaning. Through the examination of the historiographic metafiction of the South African writer, Etienne Van Heerden, this study has concluded that through a reading of both the author's belletristic and theoretical texts, readers interested in history and literature will gain some understanding of the problems that come with writing up the past. At the same time, they will gain some knowledge of a different way of writing about South African history, because the author portrays the historical events in a refreshing, vivid and imaginative way. However, it needs to be said from the outset that in no way is the writer of this thesis neglecting the merits of traditional history or advocating its abolition, which is, ultimately, the scientific way of representing the past and remains sacred and paramount for the historian, both amateur and professional. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die moontlikheid dat die verlede volgens ander sienswyses voorgestel kan word en nie slegs volgens die tradisionele sienswyses van historici nie. Daar is byvoorbeeld ander vorme, soos historiese fiksie wat in historiese novelles gebruik word, en daarom kan die narratief as 'n belangrike kanaal dien om historiese betekenis mee oor te dra. Deur 'n ondersoek van die historiese metafiksie van die Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer, Etienne van Heerden, kom hierdie studie tot die gevolgtrekking dat deur die lees van beide die skrywer se belletristiese en teoretiese tekste, lesers wat in die geskiedenis en literatuur belangstel, 'n begrip sal kry van die problematiek wat gepaard gaan met die skryf van geskiedenis. Terselfdertyd sal hulle 'n begrip kry van 'n alternatiewe skryf van die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis, omdat die skrywer historiese gegewens in 'n verfrissende, helder en verbeeldingryke wyse oordra. Dit moet egter beklemtoon word dat die skrywer van hierdie tesis geensins die meriete van tradisionele geskiedskrywing negeer of die afskaffing daarvan voorstaan nie, aangesien die wetenskaplike voorstelling van die verlede kosbaar en van kardinale belang vir beide amateur en professionele historici bly.

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A presente dissertação tem como foco estudar a paisagem pictórica na arte contemporânea através do trabalho de Teresa Poester. Outros artistas como Cristina Canale, Gelson Radaelli, Luiz Zerbini e Vânia Mignone serão utilizados para confrontar aspectos de semelhança ou diferença entre as obras. Pretende-se investigar a relação da paisagem com a obra desses artistas em sua prática pictórica, além de esboçar aspectos relativos ao seu conceito, sua representação e sua história. As questões que definem a pesquisa referem-se à paisagem como uma manifestação inerente a um povo, diferente em cada povo e à na forma como ela se faz no olho do espectador. Ou seja, ela é tornada paisagem pelo olhar estético e sua origem na pintura. Além disso, está permeada por relações conceituais, imagéticas, perceptivas, históricas, artísticas, filosóficas, geográficas, pois a paisagem está presente em várias áreas do conhecimento. Ela tem sua ligação com o território, num primeiro momento, e depois adquire seus significados conceituais, estéticos e contemplativos. / This dissertation focuses on the study of pictorial landscape in contemporary art through the work of Teresa Poester. Other artists like Cristina Canale, Gelson Radaelli, Luiz Zerbini and Vânia Mignone will be used to confront aspects of similarity or difference between the works. It investigates the relation between landscape and the work of these artists in their pictorial practice, outlining aspects of its concept, its representation and its history. The issues that define the research refer to the landscape as an inherent manifestation of a people, different in each nation, and to the way it presents itself in the eye of the spectator. In other words, it is made landscape due to the aesthetic eye and its origin in painting. It is also permeated by conceptual, imagistic, perceptual, historical, artistic, philosophical and geographical relations, for the landscape is present in many areas of knowledge. It is connected with the territory, at first, and then acquires its conceptual, aesthetic and contemplative meanings.

La tradition de l'humour et du rire voyage dans le temps et dans l'espace du maintenant et toujours, dans un jeu clair des relectures et des révisions de ses formes et expressions, dont la historicité se dirige en ce qui concerne à sa appréciation littéraire et à son marginalité esthétique. Ces parcours marginales sont le centre de l'étude par la définition d'une culture de l'humour et le rire dans la littérature brésilienne. Nous considérons que l'humour et le rire dans la poésie établissent des relations avec les traditions littéraires les plus diverses. Ici, la tradition de l'humour et du rire peut être configurée, dans l'acte de la création littéraire, un double mouvement: le premier, il doit exprimer la position antinormative, dans quel l'intervention / participation du poete dans la société si marques par des procédures appropriées même de comique, du rire, de l'humour, de la parodie, de l'ironie; le second mouvement si caractérise pour la reappropriation du quotidien ou du passé, visant à la critique de valeurs, en travers du éloignement ou de la adhérence extrême. Le vérification implique le questionament de l'endroit littéraire d'où il émane le rire brésilien, l'endroit qui ces auteurs et oeuvres occupent dans l'intérieur de cette tradition, l'endroit où le critique place tels auteurs et oeuvres, et, en conclusion, qu’est-ce qui constitue cet endroit. Les questions sont dévoilés dans l'étude analytique actuelle sur le rire de moderniste, vu les oeuvres du Pau-Brasil, d'Oswald de ANDRADE et d'História do Brasil, de Murilo MENDES, dans une période ou le rire moderniste ne peut pas faire écho de la même manière, ni du même endroit, ce qui il modifierait les résultats pour la constitution de poétique du rire. Pour au delà de la poétique du rire, ils convenir à demander sur les implications résultantes du choix et de la option des poètes en marchant les sources littéraires d'expression du rire, ideologiquement marquées pour une conception de l'écriture qui attache la poésie et l'éthique. / A tradição do humor e do riso viaja no tempo e no espaço do agora e sempre, num jogo nítido de releituras e revisões de suas formas e expressões, cuja historicidade aponta para a sua apreciação literária e para a sua marginalidade estética. Esses percursos marginais são o foco de estudo para a definição de uma cultura do humor e do riso na literatura brasileira. Consideramos que o humor e o riso na poesia estabelecem relações com as mais variadas tradições literárias. Aqui, a tradição do humor e do riso pode configurar, no ato da criação literária, um duplo movimento: o primeiro, deve expressar a postura antinormativa, na qual a intervenção / participação do poeta na sociedade se faça através de procedimentos próprios do cômico, do riso, do humor, da paródia, da ironia; o segundo movimento se caracteriza pela reapropriação do cotidiano ou do passado, visando à crítica de valores, através do distanciamento ou da extrema aderência. A constatação implica o questionamento do lugar literário de onde emana o riso brasileiro, o lugar que essas obras e autores ocupam dentro dessa tradição, o lugar em que a crítica coloca tais autores e obras, e, por último, o que constitui esse lugar. As problematizações desdobram-se no presente estudo analítico sobre o riso modernista, considerando as obras Pau-Brasil, de Oswald de ANDRADE e História do Brasil, de Murilo MENDES, uma vez que o riso modernista pode não ecoar da mesma forma, nem do mesmo lugar, o que alteraria os resultados para a constituição de uma poética do riso. Para além da poética do riso, convém perguntar sobre as implicações resultantes da escolha e da opção dos poetas em trilhar as vertentes literárias de expressão do riso, ideologicamente marcadas por uma concepção de escrita que vincula poesia e ética. / The tradition of the humor and the laugh travels in the time and the space of now and forever, in a clear game of readings and revisions of its forms and expressions, whose historicity points to its literary appreciation and its aesthetic marginality. These marginal ways are the focus of study for the definition of a culture of the humor and the laugh in Brazilian literature. We consider that humor and laugh in the poetry establish relations with the most diverse literary traditions. Here, the tradition of the humor and the laugh can form, in the act of the literary creation, a double movement: the first one, must express the antinormative position, in which the intervention/ participation of the poet in the society happens through procedures proper of the comic, of the laugh, of the humor, of the parody, of the irony; the second one, characterizes itself by the reappropriation of the present quotidian or from the past, aiming at the critic of values, through the displacement or the extreme adherence. The research implies the questioning of the literary place from where emanates the Brazilian laugh, the place that these works and authors occupy inside of this tradition, the place where the critic places such authors and their works, and, finally, what constitutes this place. The questions are unfolded in the this analytical study on the modernistic laugh, considering the Pau-Brasil, of Oswald de ANDRADE and História do Brasil, of Murilo MENDES, a time that the modernist laugh can not echo in the same way, nor in the same place, so that it would modify the results for the constitution of a poetical of the laugh. Beyond the poetical of the laugh, its worth to ask about resultant implications of the choice and the option of the poets in treading the literary sources of expression of the laugh, ideologically marked by a conception of writing that ties poetry and ethics.