%0 Journal Article
%T Memorialising the Past: Is there an 'Aboriginal' Way?
%A Bronwyn Batten
%A Paul Batten
%J Public History Review
%D 2008
%I 
%X There is debate about how the Aboriginal past can and should be memorialised. This paper utilises a series of example memorials to discuss the ways in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia are choosing to depict ¨C in a physical, public form ¨C Aboriginal perspectives of the past. The paper focuses on the issues of cultural evolution and the adoption of so-called ¡®European¡¯ ways of memorialising. It also looks at the role of landscapes and natural materials in memorials to the Aboriginal past and the evolving role of counter- and anti-memorials to commemorate the past. The examples of memorials from around Australia suggest that, above all, we must be open-minded about what constitutes an ¡®Aboriginal¡¯ memorial. Ways of memorialising the Aboriginal past can range, for example, from natural to constructed, from created by Indigenous people exclusively to otherwise, and from targeting an exclusively Indigenous audience, a non-Indigenous audience, or both. There is more than one way of memorialising the Aboriginal past.
%K memorials
%K cultural evolution
%K Aboriginal history
%K shared history
%U http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/phrj/article/view/656