Diane Barwick

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Diane Elizabeth MacEachern Barwick (born April 29, 1938 in Vancouver , † April 4, 1986 in Canberra ) was a Canadian anthropologist , historian and activist for Aboriginal rights .

Life

Barwick was born in 1938 as the daughter of the forest worker Ronald Bernard McEachern and his wife Beatrice Rosemond. Since Barwick almost always lived with her parents in logging camps, she received distance learning and only attended high school for her senior year.

Barwick graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in anthropology in 1959 . In her thesis, The Logging Camp as Sub-Culture , she examined the subculture of lumberjacks in the Englewood Valley and was based on field research in lumberjack camps. After graduating, she worked for a year at the Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology in Victoria, British Columbia . In 1960 she went to Australia, where she did her doctorate at the Australian National University (ANU) until 1964 . The following year she married Richard Essex Barwick, a New Zealand zoologist. The couple had a daughter in 1973.

In 1964 she was a founding member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS; today: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ), where she also researched and taught. From March 1966 to June 1972 she was a fellow in the anthropology and sociology department of the ANU Research School of Pacific Studies. In 1978 she became the first woman to be elected to the AIAS Board of Trustees. Until 1982 she mainly supported the institute's publications. From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of the institute's historical committee; between 1983 and 1986 she chaired the publication committee.

Barwick was employed as a teacher at ANU between 1974 and 1978. In 1977 she co-founded and edited Aboriginal History , the magazine of the Australian Center for Indigenous History at the ANU's Research School of Social Science. She stayed until 1982. In 1979 she worked for a year as a researcher in the history department of the Research School of Social Sciences. In 1980 she became a member of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee and began campaigning for Aboriginal rights. In 1985/86 she volunteered for the AIAS to set up a national biographical register of the Aborigines.

In 1986 Barwick died at the Royal Canberra Hospital after a brain hemorrhage . She was buried in the Gungahlin Cemetery in Canberra.

research

Barwick's research focused on the traditional and modern aspects of Aboriginal life. Again and again she campaigned against prejudice and injustice for the Aborigines. She repeatedly pointed out how important the connection to their land was to the indigenous peoples of Australia and condemned the expropriations; their work was an important contribution to the understanding of colonialism. In 1984 she published the article Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian clans, 1835-1904, which was a significant contribution to the understanding of the ownership structure of the land of the Aborigines in Victoria, made accessible through genealogies and biographies. This article should serve as the basis for a later, more comprehensive, list-like compilation of Aboriginal biographies within the framework of the AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies). Due to her early death, this extended work was no longer possible.

Honors

Diane Barwick Street at Gubur Dhaura Heritage Park in Canberra is named after the scientist.

Fonts (selection)

  • And the Lubras are Ladies Now . In: Fay Gale (ed.): Women's Role in Aboriginal Society , Australian Institute of Australian Studies, Canberra 1970
  • Outcasts in White Australia , 1971.
  • with Michael Mace, Tom Stannage: Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander History . Aboriginal History, Canberra 1979 (second edition 1980; third edition 1984)
  • Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans 1835-1904 , Part 1, in: Aboriginal History 1984, 8 (2), pp. 100-131
  • with Isobel White, Betty Meehan: Fighters and Singers. The lives of some Australian Aboriginal women . Allen & Unwin, 1985
  • with Richard Barwick: Rebellion at Coranderrk . Aboriginal History Incorporated, Canberra 1998

literature

  • Diane Elizabeth Barwick 1938–1986: A Bibliography. Special Volume in Honor of Diane Barwick . Aboriginal History , Vol. 12, No. 1/2, 1988
  • Johanna Kijas: An unfashionable concern with the past: the historical anthropology of Diane Barwick . Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 1, 1997, pp. 48-60

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Tim Rowse: Barwick, Diane Elizabeth (1938–1986) , Australian Dictionary of Biography , National Center of Biography, Australian National University, 2007, accessed February 16, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Barwick, Diane Elizabeth (1938–1986) , The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Australian Women's Archives Project 2014, ISBN 978-0-7340-4873-8
  3. ^ Barwick Estate , University of Melbourne, accessed February 16, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Encyclopedia of Australian Science 2010
  5. ^ The Australian Women's Register, sub voce Barwick, Diane
personal data
SURNAME Barwick, Diane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barwick, Diane Elizabeth MacEachern (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian anthropologist, historian and activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1986
Place of death Canberra