John Bradley
(Joint appointment with the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies -CAIS)
Tel: +61 3 990 52969
Fax: +61 3 990 52410
Email: John.Bradley@arts.monash.edu.au
Room W1028 10th Floor
Building 11 (Menzies) Clayton Campus
John teaches
- ANY1010 Culture, Power, Difference: Indigeneity and Australian Identity
Biography
Qualifications
- DipT (Social Science - Anthropology), Bendigo College of Advanced Education
- PhD(Anthropology), Northern Territory University
Professional Activities
Member - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Background
- Lecturer, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, 1998 - 2005
- Lecturer, Natural & Cultural Resource Management, Batchelor College, N.T., 1997
- Consultancy, Maring Tenure & Native Title, Northern Land Council, 1996
- Tutor/Lecturer, Northern Territory University, La Trobe University (Bendigo Campus), 1993 - 1996
Research
John's research interests include:
- Mapping Project - Ethno Ecology and the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands
- Music & Landscape, Memory & Religion
- Savana Country
- Yanyuwa Dictionary/Encyclopedia
- Development of Indigenous Website: Diwurruwurru http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts/diwurruwurru/
Publications
Representative publications include:
- Bradley, J. and K. Seton 2004 (In press) When you have no law you are nothing Cane Toads, Social Consequences and Management Issues, The Asia pacific Journal of Anthropology. 5:3.
- Bradley, J. and K. Seton 2004 (In press) Under the Act Land Claims, Colonial Authority and Indigenous Representation. B. Hocking (ed)Indigenous Self Determination. Aboriginal Studies Press.
- Bradley, J., Holmes, M., Norman, D., Isaac, A., Miller, J. and Ninganga, I 2004 (In press) Yumbulyumbulmantha ki-awarawa (All kinds of things from country) Yanyuwa Ethnobiological Classification, Ngulaig. Monograph series of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit, University of Queensland.
- Bradley, J. and Tamisari, F. (In press) To Have and Give Law: Animal Names, Place and Event. In Minelli, A., Ortalli, G., Sanga, G. (eds) Animal Names Instituto Veneto Di Scienze Lettere Ed Arti, Palazzo Loredan, Campo Santo Stefano Venice.
- Bradley, J. and Mackinlay, E. (In press) Many Songs, Many Voices, Many Dialogues: Yanyuwa performance practices in a remote Aboriginal Community.Rural Society. Vol 14. No 2.
- Bradley, J., Yanyuwa Families and Nona Cameron. (2003). 'Forget about Flinders' An Yanyuwa Atlas of the South West Gulf of Carpentaria, Brisbane.
- Bradley, J. and Mackinlay, E. (2003) Of Mermaids and Spirit Men. Complexities in Caterogisation of Two Aboriginal Dance Performances at Borrolooa, NT. The Asian Pacific Journal of Anthropology 4(1) 2003: 1-23