Lynette Russell: 2 books
Appropriated Pasts
Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell outline archaeology's "colonial culture"...
Letters from Belsen 1945
An Australian nurse's experiences with the survivors of war
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
When British troops arrived at Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 they found 40,000 desperately ill men, women and children and 10,000 unburied dead bodies. In a final act of cruelty the Germans had withheld food and water from the inmates for a week. Typhus was raging and conditions were chaotic.
Muriel...