Sydney Studies in Society and Culture

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From Harbour Autocracies to 'Feudal' Diffusion in Seventeenth-Century Indonesia: the case of Aceh

In Indonesia, as in most Asian countries, the term 'feudalism' became very popular in the 1930s and '40s. It was part of the jargon which nationalists accepted eagerly from Marxism, because it seemed to locate their own societies on a line...

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Henry Lawson's Socialist Vision

Henry Lawson (1867-1922) was born on the Grenfell goldfield in New South Wales. His father was a Norwegian seaman who had jumped ship in Australia. His mother was the daughter of English immigrants. 'They were supposed to have come of Engl...

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The Historical Novel: Jack Lindsay's 1649

In Fanfrolico and After Jack Lindsay discusses the historical novels he began to write in the mid 1930s. 'I still, however, could not handle the contemporary scene.' 1 When contemporary society proves too resistant, then a recourse to hist...

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Weird Melancholy: the stories of Marcus Clarke

When Hamilton Mackinnon collected Clarke's stories in The Austral Edition nf the Selected Works nf Marcus Clarke (1890),1 he placed as the first item of the 'Australian Tales and Sketches' section two pages entitled 'Australian Scenery'. T...

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William Lane's The Workingmen s Paradise: Pioneering Socialist Realism

For their part in the I 891 shearers' strike, some eighty to one hundred unionists were convicted in Queensland with sentences ranging from three months for 'intimidation' to three years for 'conspiracy'.' It was to aid the families of th...

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Joseph Furphy's Such Is Life

Joseph Furphy's Sltch is Life (1903) opens simply and clearly enough with that memorable, sardonic initial declaration: 'Unemployed at last!'~ The complex reaction of the relief from work, while at the same time the prospect of poverty nnd...

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Religious Change, Conversion and Culture

This book publishes the papers from a conference which grew out of an undergraduate course … the indigenisation of Christianity [was] seen in all of the societies studied, and the creative role of the convert in the conversion process has...

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Buallawn Israel: The Emergence of a Judaising Movement in Mizoram, Northeast India

During the past forty years, a Judaising movement has taken root among the Chikim in Mizoram, Manipur, and the Chin State of North Burma. This movement has propelled a small segment of the Chikim to full conversion to Judaism, settlement i...

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Old Wine in New Bottles? Kartabhaja (Vaishnava) Converts to Evangelical Christianity in Bengal, 1835–1845

Of special relevance in what follows are three of [anthropologist Robin] Horton's more general and interrelated points - ideas and assumptions which have influenced much of our discussion of Kartabhaja conversion. Firstly, Horton joins wit...

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The Conversion of the Visigoths and Bulgarians Compared

This paper is written to bring out various themes relevant to the subject of this book. It is not the first time such a comparison has been made, for in the ninth century A.D., Pope John VIII warned the Bulgar ruler not to get his Christia...

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Not by Word Alone: Cross-cultural Communication between Highlanders and Missionaries (SVD) in the Jimi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Is communication (especially of complex religious ideas!) between peoples of different cultures possible and if it is, then under what conditions? This is a vexing question in these post-colonial, post-totalitarian times when peoples in va...