Although few hunter-gatherers or foragers exist today, they are well documented in the ethnographic record. Anthropologists have been eager to study them since they assumed foragers represented a lifestyle that existed everywhere before 10,000 years ago and characterized our ancestors into some ill-defined but remote past. In the past few decades, that assumption has been challenged on several grounds. Ethnographically described foragers may be a biased sample that only continued to exist because they occupied marginal habitats less coveted by agricultural people.3 In addition, many foragers have been greatly influenced by their association with more powerful agricultural societies.4 It has even been suggested that Holocene foragers represent a new niche that appeared only with the climatic changes and faunal depletion at the end of the last major glaciation.5 Despite these issues, the ethnographic record of foragers provides the only direct observations of human behavior in the absence of agriculture, and as such is invaluable for testing hypotheses about human behavioral evolution.6.

Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution

Indigenous health in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific

Paternal investment and the human mating system

From the above table it is inferred that 3 dependent variables Perceived Organization Support, Organization Commitment and Turnover Intention are considered to identify the significant relationship with the analyzing variable age. All the three variables Perceived Organization Support, Organization Commitment and Turnover Intention have significant relationship with the analyzing variable age at (.05) level of significance.

With the age....

The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that certain sorts of 'collective rights' for minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles, and that standard liberal objections to recognizing such rights on grounds of individual freedom, social justice, and national unity, can be answered. However, Professor Kymlicka emphasises that no single formula can be applied to all groups and that the needs and aspirations of immigrants are very different from those of indigenous peoples and national minorities. The book discusses issues such as language rights, group representation, religious education, federalism, and secession - issues which are central to understanding multicultural politics, but which have been surprisingly neglected in contemporary liberal theory.

Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights

White Australians once confidently - if regretfully - believed that the Aboriginal people were doomed to extinction.

In this challenging analysis Russell McGregor explores the origins and the gradual demise of the 'doomed race' theory, which was unquestioned in nineteenth-century European thinking and remained uncontested until the 1930s. White perceptions had been shaped by Enlightenment ideas about progress, Darwin's new theories on the survival of the fittest, and other European philosophical concepts. These ideas exerted a powerful influence and shaped white Australian attitudes to, and policies for, Aboriginal people.

Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939

This article examines inter-war proposals to ‘breed out the colour’ of Aborigines of mixed descent. Positioning these proposals in the context of contemporary Australian nationalism, scientific discourses and administrative practice, it concludes with a discussion of their alleged genocidal intent.

'Breed out the colour' or the importance of being white

McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle 4 decades of the 20th century. He combines perspectives of political, social and cultural history in a coherent narrative, providing a cogent analysis of how the relationship changed and the impediments to change.

Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation

Until the last third of the twentieth century, Britishness figured prominently in the national identity of Australians. Many scholars of Australian nationalism have assumed an inherent antipathy between British and Australian solidarities; others have appreciated that there was a degree of mutuality between the two; few have explained why. This article offers such an explanation. It focuses on the crucial nation-building period twenty years on either side of the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901. Drawing on ethno-symbolist approaches to nationalism, it argues that Britishness provided the necessary ethno-cultural foundations for Australian nationhood, the only available repertoire of myth and symbol that could fulfil the nationalist aspiration for unity. Yet Britishness in the antipodes was significantly different to that of the British Isles, as were the civic/territorial components of Australian conceptions of nationhood, giving rise to a distinctive British-Australian composite nationalism.

The necessity of Britishness: ethno‐cultural roots of Australian nationalism*

(1993). Protest and progress: Aboriginal activism in the 1930s. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 25, No. 101, pp. 555-568.

Russell McGregor

Papers

Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939

'Breed out the colour' or the importance of being white

Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation

The necessity of Britishness: ethno‐cultural roots of Australian nationalism*

Protest and progress: Aboriginal activism in the 1930s 1