handle: 2123/15078
The story of the passenger craft of Sydney Harbour, from First Fleet arrival in 1788 until the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932, encapsulates a unique historical era. Apart from the growing colony’s high dependence of on water conveyance that made this harbour one of the busiest in the world, opportunities presented by this rapid expansion drew adventurers and entrepreneurs from all over the world. Entertainment venues sprang up around the harbour and land was free to men with connections or valuable contributions, and cheap for those with money. Many ferry companies set up to service these ‘pleasure grounds’ and venues doubled as commuter runs for adjacent housing developments, providing avenues to other ventures and political careers. The world of the harbour’s passenger craft was flush with dynamic personalities, their grand visions, innovations and ambitions. A perfect arena, one would think, for literary expression. Not so. Perhaps the sheer physical glory of Sydney Harbour drew so much attention from the visual Arts that the narrative of the passenger craft got swamped in the wash. This project has set out to redress the paucity of literary expression on the topic. The exegesis is a report on the research and an overview of what literature has been written, with an introduction to the twenty-seven poetical sequences, each focusing on one aspect of the world of the passenger craft over those one hundred and forty-four years. The topic was initially inspired Australian artist, Peter Kingston’s, ferry paintings, the form takes inspiration from Dylan Thomas’ radio play, Under Milk Wood. It is designed for publication as both an illustrated literary edition and a simpler performance text suitable for Educational purposes. The subject encompasses History, Literature and Theatre, with every kind of performance vehicle, from the Greek Chorus and songs to individual characters and groups and is intended for high schools as an ideal play in which the whole class may participate.
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handle: 2123/17958
Studies of place and landscape abound in the anthropological literature. This thesis aims at synthesising archaeological and anthropological approaches to explore how archaeological sites contribute to a sense of place and national identity in the Republic of Ireland. I take a multi-sited approach to discuss three archaeological places: the Hill of Tara, a prehistoric earthwork in County Meath, the Rock of Cashel, a Medieval ecclesiastical site in Country Tipperary, and Dublin city as a commemorative place for the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. These sites provide a way to examine how archaeological places support intangible ideas of place that are also mediated through a phenomenological experience of tangible sites. In focusing on the way that narratives are woven into and of place, I examine how meta-narratives of the Irish nation are experienced, contested and integrated through archaeological places. In this thesis I contend that the temporal and material qualities of archaeological sites are core features that define the narratives told of place, and that narrative and place are mutually constitutive, each structuring the experience of the other.
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Ornamental Hallucination proposes to reconstruct a polyphony of ancient Pagan symbols as feminist archetypes to disrupt hegemonic narratives. With the potential to transform reality it pronounces the importance that art has to reinstate the values of creativity and the imagination, envisioning new ways of looking at ourselves in the world, and the possibility for change. It outlines the power obsessed play of mass culture’s construction of manufactured consent by the barrage of twenty-four hours per day of advertising, news media and entertainment. Asserting that the ideas on the psychedelic experience, which sprang from the counter-culture of ‘the 1960’s’ is one way to liberate the mind from the trappings of hegemonic thinking. It claims that as artists are on the periphery of society, it is unlike any other discipline and therefore able to take on absurd theories as a way of critiquing the machinations of established thought. Ornamental Hallucination examines the revival of the feminine principle through a psychedelic framework that links us to nature, or as McKenna says, to Gaian consciousness, via ancient shamanic practices and the invention and construction of positive and mythically empowered feminine role models as a guide for the soul, breaking down binary thinking and reconnecting psychically to our ancestry, to our bodies and lived and shared experience. Using examples of my work, I trace a lineage with other feminist artists, linking them to the theme of the archaic revival. Pagan feminine symbols are interpreted for a contemporary lexicon placing art in ritualistic context and appointing it the role of historical corrective to the ills of cultural engineering. Ornamental Hallucination in its physiological dimension will comprise of four large freestanding ceramic sculptures, one candelabra wall piece, a wall painting and a performance with a costume made from ceramic, found objects, textile and cow horn. All ceramics are fired and painted in oil.
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Evidence from Classical Athens is full of examples of animals and the impacts of their interactions with people across social, political, religious, and philosophical contexts. Within this body of evidence, the dog stands out for the scope of its presence across both the historical record and particularly within Athenian life. Men and women, children and adults, elite and ordinary citizens, citizens, metics, and slaves, urban and rural inhabitants, labourers, the poor, and the healthy and sick – dogs were there with them, on the land, in their thoughts, in their literature, on their art, and in their practices - hidden in plain sight. As such, dogs offer us multiple perspectives through which to examine Athenian society and the expressions of its individual and collective identities and experiences. The principal aim of this dissertation is to highlight the benefits of including human-animal relations in the histories we write. It approaches the period of Classical Athens through the lens of its different human-canine interactions and applies an interdisciplinary method that integrates classics, historical inquiry, classical archaeology, and archaeology with principles from Human-Animal Studies. This thesis asks how and why numerous real and figurative dogs featured in the ancient evidence and how this related to real-life human-canine interactions in Classical Athens. Exploring dogs as guards, military auxiliaries, companions, commodities, and philosophical subjects, this study demonstrates the significant historical value of dogs and the tangible insights they provide into different experiences of ancient Athenian life.
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handle: 2123/23743
This thesis has used the abandoned village site of Mwanihuki located on Makira in the Solomon Islands as a case study to explore the archaeological evidence associated with the initial occupation of the region and the emergence of later inter and intra-island trade and exchange systems. The main aims of the thesis were to establish the timing of initial occupation, understand patterns of settlement and subsistence, and explore evidence for the rise of the southeast trade and exchange system and Mwanihuki’s place in that network. Intensive fieldwork was conducted on Mwanihuki and surroundings, while also analysing and incorporating the legacy material into this research. Radiocarbon evidence revealed phasing that placed the study area into two broad cultural periods. The first was an ephemeral use of Mwanihuki from c. 3000 BP, which was contemporaneous with the Lapita cultural tradition, though aceramic. The second phase of the site demonstrated intensive occupation from c.800BP, which included construction of burial structures, anthropogenic refuse mounds, and a rich material culture. It is argued that these latter items are evidence of shell valuable production and together with the dense concentrations of chert imported from Ulawa indicate that by c500BP Mwanihuki was a significant node in the emergent inter-island trade system. This material culture, along with Mwanihuki’s prominent headland location and strong island inter-visibility all contributed to the transfer of material culture and social and economic complexity. The abandonment of the site c400BP and the retreat to the mountainous interior and defended settlements detailed in oral history appears to be a consequence of an initial contact with Spanish explorers in 1595 AD and the rise of inter and intra island hostilities.
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handle: 2123/17032
This thesis argues that the status and authority of the English gentleman is derived from the uniquely English interpretation and administration of the Law of Arms by the officers of the College of Arms — the heralds. This research examines questions of honour, genealogy, and law, as they were understood by the heralds, and their role in creating an English identity during the early modern period. The work of Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin demonstrated that the role of the English gentleman was crucial to the origins of early modern science, in the establishment of truth in “matters of fact.” If, following Schaffer and Shapin, gentlemen played a central role in the social construction of facts, I argue that the College of Arms played a central role in the construction of gentlemen. Through the process of Visitation — which involved historical, genealogical, and chorographical investigation — the heralds ascertained who was gentle, and who was not. While the English gentleman could determine what was legitimate knowledge, it was the heralds who possessed the experience and expertise to determine who was a member of that social class; and the empirical practices for which the English gentleman scientist has been lauded, of “taking no-one’s word for it” and “seeing for oneself” already existed in the process of Visitation undertaken by the heralds, particularly those knowledgeable in the study of antiquities. Relationships between blood, honour, gender, and climate meant that the bodily and cultural identity of the English gentleman was firmly embedded in the English land.
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Throughout the first three centuries of the Common Era large numbers of non-Chinese peoples from Inner Asia migrated into the territories ruled over and administered by the Eastern Han (25-220 AD), Wei (220-65 AD) and Western Jin (265-316 AD) Dynasties. During the Third Century, a number of these immigrants and their descendants engaged in destructive revolts against the Chinese regimes ruling over them. Ultimately, many of their descendants would play important rôles in the overthrow of the Western Jin and the establishment of the “Sixteen Kingdoms,” which dominated the Central Plain in the Fourth and early Fifth Centuries. In the second half of the Third Century, three officials of the Wei and Western Jin Dynasties separately presented memoranda proposing a variety of measures designed to alleviate problems seen as arising from the settlement of these alien peoples in Chinese territory. These individuals were Deng Ai 鄧艾 in 251 AD, Guo Qin 郭欽 in 280 AD and Jiang Tong 江統 in 299 (or 300) AD. Amongst the policies proposed in their memoranda, these three statesmen proposed that large numbers of these non-Chinese populations be forcibly moved to the frontier or expelled from Wei or Jin territory. The proposals contained in the latter two memoranda were rejected in their entirety, while those in the first memorandum were only implemented in part. Since at least the Tang Dynasty, both pre-Modern and Twentieth Century Chinese scholars have tended to identify the reasons for the rejections of such policies as being their alleged impracticality, whilst commending the supposed farsightedness of their authors in identifying the threat posed by the alien peoples dwelling within the Wei and Jin’s territories. The author of the most comprehensive expulsion proposal, Jiang Tong, has even been held by one highly regarded modern scholar to have been engaged in a mere hypothetical exercise. However, such views are mistaken and anachronistic. The first two of the proposed population transfers were certainly within the administrative capacity of the Wei and Western Jin states. Moreover, even Jiang Tong’s much more comprehensive plan was likely capable of implementation in its entirety. Rather, the proposals contained in the three memoranda were rejected not due to impracticality, but because of the clear preference amongst sections of the Wei and Western Jin elite for the advantages offered by the presence of such unassimilated alien peoples within Chinese territory and because they conflicted too strongly with the priorities of those regimes’ rulers. Despite their non-implementation (and despite only rarely having been subjected to detailed scholarly analysis), the three memoranda are historically significant for their provision of a highly informative snapshot of attitudes to the non-Chinese peoples held by sections of the Chinese elite in the Third Century. They enable us to trace the contours of a continuing and influential debate, inherited from the Han, setting adherents of “Exclusivist” approaches, stressing the existence of fundamental differences between Chinese and aliens against their ideological opponents who favoured “Transformationalist” traditions upholding the ability of Chinese civilisation to positively transform non-Chinese peoples. In particular, the three memoranda themselves contain a consistent and coherent Exclusivist characterisation of non-Chinese Inner Asian peoples and indicate the increasing prominence of Exclusivist approaches amongst elite Chinese during the Third Century AD. Simultaneously, they also demonstrate the inherent ambiguities and consequent weakness of Exclusivism during the Third Century, which was often forced to rely for its arguments upon the authority of classical texts, which contained implicit Transformationalist assumptions.
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handle: 2123/31293
Ancient Chorasmia, located on the northern frontiers of Central Asia, south of the Aral Sea, was a polity barely known to the Classical world despite some scarce mentions in a few written sources. Chorasmian civilisation and material culture were initially recognised and defined by modern archaeological works carried out in the area since the early 1940s by the Soviet Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition to Ancient Chorasmia led by S.P. Tolstov. While numerous archaeological sites have provided rich materials regarding multiple aspects of ancient Chorasmia, i.e., the construction of fortifications, ceramic typology and religious practices, the overall lack of a well-stratified sequence and solid chronological evidence has been a striking issue for most of the excavated sites. This is particularly problematic in the study of pottery which could easily be subject to arbitrary judgments without secure stratigraphy and dating. The excavations at Akchakhan-kala (1995-present) by the Karakalpak-Australian Archaeological Expedition have yielded well-stratified pottery sherds with chronological sequences spanning from the early 2nd BCE to 2nd Centuries CE. The site was identified as a royal seat closely linked with monumental and religious purpose, as attested at the Central Monument and Ceremonial Complex, where painted texts testifying to the presence of a “Chorasmian King” were initially found. It provides a precious chance to review the existing pottery typology and chronology of ancient Chorasmia in term of new evidence acquired from Akchakhan-kala, and cast new light on the periodization of the antique period of Chorasmia. Apart from reviews of archaeological sites and the ceramic chronology of ancient Chorasmia, the thesis provides a thorough analysis of the Akchakhan-kala assemblage, concerning fabrics, typology and chronology, presented by illustrations and catalogues.
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handle: 2123/17954
This thesis presents the results of faunal analysis and historical research in order to understand the diet of the women who lived in the Immigration Depot (1848–1886) and the Destitute Asylum (1862–1886) at Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, NSW. The faunal analysis included the examination of 5,436 specimens from the main building and trenches in the area of the kitchen. It focuses on three main areas: the variety of taxa in the assemblages, the distribution of taxa across the site, and the relative lack of Bos taurus bones. While many of the results supported the documentary record, such as the predominance of mutton consumed on the site, areas of dissonance are resolved through careful consideration of the two sources. This combination of archaeozoological and documentary evidence to argue that the diet was sufficient for sustaining life, but monotonous and poorly adapted to the needs of the women in the Destitute Asylum who lived there for long periods. This was not the result of a policy decision to punish or control the inmates, as may have been the case in other institutional settings, but rather the use of dietaries based on those designed for sailors and convicts. Institutions today continue to struggle with the same questions that were at the for in the 19th century – how can we feed people as cheaply as possible? Should the diet be part of the punishment or reform effort? Do people have a right to a basic quantity and quality of food? What role does nutrition play in the dietary? As well as adding to the growing literature on institutional diets and the archaeology of institutions in Australia, this study suggests that there are parallels between historical and modern institutional diets. The results show that a lack of official planning can damaging, even when punishment is not intended.
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handle: 2123/20113
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handle: 2123/15078
The story of the passenger craft of Sydney Harbour, from First Fleet arrival in 1788 until the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932, encapsulates a unique historical era. Apart from the growing colony’s high dependence of on water conveyance that made this harbour one of the busiest in the world, opportunities presented by this rapid expansion drew adventurers and entrepreneurs from all over the world. Entertainment venues sprang up around the harbour and land was free to men with connections or valuable contributions, and cheap for those with money. Many ferry companies set up to service these ‘pleasure grounds’ and venues doubled as commuter runs for adjacent housing developments, providing avenues to other ventures and political careers. The world of the harbour’s passenger craft was flush with dynamic personalities, their grand visions, innovations and ambitions. A perfect arena, one would think, for literary expression. Not so. Perhaps the sheer physical glory of Sydney Harbour drew so much attention from the visual Arts that the narrative of the passenger craft got swamped in the wash. This project has set out to redress the paucity of literary expression on the topic. The exegesis is a report on the research and an overview of what literature has been written, with an introduction to the twenty-seven poetical sequences, each focusing on one aspect of the world of the passenger craft over those one hundred and forty-four years. The topic was initially inspired Australian artist, Peter Kingston’s, ferry paintings, the form takes inspiration from Dylan Thomas’ radio play, Under Milk Wood. It is designed for publication as both an illustrated literary edition and a simpler performance text suitable for Educational purposes. The subject encompasses History, Literature and Theatre, with every kind of performance vehicle, from the Greek Chorus and songs to individual characters and groups and is intended for high schools as an ideal play in which the whole class may participate.
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handle: 2123/17958
Studies of place and landscape abound in the anthropological literature. This thesis aims at synthesising archaeological and anthropological approaches to explore how archaeological sites contribute to a sense of place and national identity in the Republic of Ireland. I take a multi-sited approach to discuss three archaeological places: the Hill of Tara, a prehistoric earthwork in County Meath, the Rock of Cashel, a Medieval ecclesiastical site in Country Tipperary, and Dublin city as a commemorative place for the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. These sites provide a way to examine how archaeological places support intangible ideas of place that are also mediated through a phenomenological experience of tangible sites. In focusing on the way that narratives are woven into and of place, I examine how meta-narratives of the Irish nation are experienced, contested and integrated through archaeological places. In this thesis I contend that the temporal and material qualities of archaeological sites are core features that define the narratives told of place, and that narrative and place are mutually constitutive, each structuring the experience of the other.
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handle: 2123/20358
Ornamental Hallucination proposes to reconstruct a polyphony of ancient Pagan symbols as feminist archetypes to disrupt hegemonic narratives. With the potential to transform reality it pronounces the importance that art has to reinstate the values of creativity and the imagination, envisioning new ways of looking at ourselves in the world, and the possibility for change. It outlines the power obsessed play of mass culture’s construction of manufactured consent by the barrage of twenty-four hours per day of advertising, news media and entertainment. Asserting that the ideas on the psychedelic experience, which sprang from the counter-culture of ‘the 1960’s’ is one way to liberate the mind from the trappings of hegemonic thinking. It claims that as artists are on the periphery of society, it is unlike any other discipline and therefore able to take on absurd theories as a way of critiquing the machinations of established thought. Ornamental Hallucination examines the revival of the feminine principle through a psychedelic framework that links us to nature, or as McKenna says, to Gaian consciousness, via ancient shamanic practices and the invention and construction of positive and mythically empowered feminine role models as a guide for the soul, breaking down binary thinking and reconnecting psychically to our ancestry, to our bodies and lived and shared experience. Using examples of my work, I trace a lineage with other feminist artists, linking them to the theme of the archaic revival. Pagan feminine symbols are interpreted for a contemporary lexicon placing art in ritualistic context and appointing it the role of historical corrective to the ills of cultural engineering. Ornamental Hallucination in its physiological dimension will comprise of four large freestanding ceramic sculptures, one candelabra wall piece, a wall painting and a performance with a costume made from ceramic, found objects, textile and cow horn. All ceramics are fired and painted in oil.
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handle: 2123/33162
Evidence from Classical Athens is full of examples of animals and the impacts of their interactions with people across social, political, religious, and philosophical contexts. Within this body of evidence, the dog stands out for the scope of its presence across both the historical record and particularly within Athenian life. Men and women, children and adults, elite and ordinary citizens, citizens, metics, and slaves, urban and rural inhabitants, labourers, the poor, and the healthy and sick – dogs were there with them, on the land, in their thoughts, in their literature, on their art, and in their practices - hidden in plain sight. As such, dogs offer us multiple perspectives through which to examine Athenian society and the expressions of its individual and collective identities and experiences. The principal aim of this dissertation is to highlight the benefits of including human-animal relations in the histories we write. It approaches the period of Classical Athens through the lens of its different human-canine interactions and applies an interdisciplinary method that integrates classics, historical inquiry, classical archaeology, and archaeology with principles from Human-Animal Studies. This thesis asks how and why numerous real and figurative dogs featured in the ancient evidence and how this related to real-life human-canine interactions in Classical Athens. Exploring dogs as guards, military auxiliaries, companions, commodities, and philosophical subjects, this study demonstrates the significant historical value of dogs and the tangible insights they provide into different experiences of ancient Athenian life.
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handle: 2123/23743
This thesis has used the abandoned village site of Mwanihuki located on Makira in the Solomon Islands as a case study to explore the archaeological evidence associated with the initial occupation of the region and the emergence of later inter and intra-island trade and exchange systems. The main aims of the thesis were to establish the timing of initial occupation, understand patterns of settlement and subsistence, and explore evidence for the rise of the southeast trade and exchange system and Mwanihuki’s place in that network. Intensive fieldwork was conducted on Mwanihuki and surroundings, while also analysing and incorporating the legacy material into this research. Radiocarbon evidence revealed phasing that placed the study area into two broad cultural periods. The first was an ephemeral use of Mwanihuki from c. 3000 BP, which was contemporaneous with the Lapita cultural tradition, though aceramic. The second phase of the site demonstrated intensive occupation from c.800BP, which included construction of burial structures, anthropogenic refuse mounds, and a rich material culture. It is argued that these latter items are evidence of shell valuable production and together with the dense concentrations of chert imported from Ulawa indicate that by c500BP Mwanihuki was a significant node in the emergent inter-island trade system. This material culture, along with Mwanihuki’s prominent headland location and strong island inter-visibility all contributed to the transfer of material culture and social and economic complexity. The abandonment of the site c400BP and the retreat to the mountainous interior and defended settlements detailed in oral history appears to be a consequence of an initial contact with Spanish explorers in 1595 AD and the rise of inter and intra island hostilities.
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handle: 2123/17032
This thesis argues that the status and authority of the English gentleman is derived from the uniquely English interpretation and administration of the Law of Arms by the officers of the College of Arms — the heralds. This research examines questions of honour, genealogy, and law, as they were understood by the heralds, and their role in creating an English identity during the early modern period. The work of Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin demonstrated that the role of the English gentleman was crucial to the origins of early modern science, in the establishment of truth in “matters of fact.” If, following Schaffer and Shapin, gentlemen played a central role in the social construction of facts, I argue that the College of Arms played a central role in the construction of gentlemen. Through the process of Visitation — which involved historical, genealogical, and chorographical investigation — the heralds ascertained who was gentle, and who was not. While the English gentleman could determine what was legitimate knowledge, it was the heralds who possessed the experience and expertise to determine who was a member of that social class; and the empirical practices for which the English gentleman scientist has been lauded, of “taking no-one’s word for it” and “seeing for oneself” already existed in the process of Visitation undertaken by the heralds, particularly those knowledgeable in the study of antiquities. Relationships between blood, honour, gender, and climate meant that the bodily and cultural identity of the English gentleman was firmly embedded in the English land.