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GENERAL REFERENCES

1955

Betsy Rose public facebook post

• with sisters Betsy and Mary Rose .. at Yellowstone
• from Seattle, Washington, west coast United States

1980 (September) - 1982 (July}

Deborah Bird Rose (1984) Dingo makes us human: being and purpose in Australian aboriginal culture PhD Dissertation with Bryn Mawr College, 1984

• "Research was carried out in the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin, Northern Territory and Lingarra, Northern Territory over a twenty-two month period from September 1980-July 1982 with subsequent short visits to the field site. The Aboriginal people are primarily Ngaringman and Ngaliwurru speakers and have lived and worked on European-owned cattle stations all their lives. Primary research methods consisted of participant observation and formal and informal interviews. I participated in and observed all contexts of life which were accessible to me, including public ceremonial life, women's secret ceremonial life, and daily life both in town and in the bush." Aboriginal people possess their own exegesis of cosmos and humanity, known in Aboriginal English as "the Dreaming.

1983

Rose, Deborah 1983 Captain Cooks law in North Australia network news -- 1983; 10; 6-7

1984

Deborah Bird Rose (1984) Dingo makes us human: being and purpose in Australian aboriginal culture PhD Dissertation with Bryn Mawr College, 1984

• This dissertation is an ethnographic study of an Australian Aboriginal group's conceputalization of the cosmos and of the role of human being within the cosmos. The analysis is interpretive, focusing on domains of meaning which can be summarized as cosmos and humanity.
• I focus the analysis on the dialectics of Dreaming law, human action, and actions of other portions of the cosmos, showing how Dreaming law is both a model for, and commentary on, the life of all living beings. Dreaming law and human action both indicate that the cosmos is seen as a system which works because all its parts (humans, other living beings, the country, the seasons, and so on) are conscious and because they act according to a few fundamental principles, the goal of which is to produce a life enhancing cosmos. I identify these principles as response, balance, symmetry, and autonomy and show how they are manifested in social life and in the cosmos at large. In addition, I analyze gender concepts in order to show a non-hierarchiacal ordering of relationships among parts of the system.
• I produce a model of androgyny which, with all its complexities, is a model both of the cosmos and humanity. Throughout the analysis I focus on ways in which Aboriginal people define themselves in relation to other individuals, groups, categories, and parts of the cosmos. I show flexibility to be the key process through which all parts of the system maintain their autonomy in balanced and symmetrical relationships with other parts.

1988

Rose, Deborah (1988) Exploring an Aboriginal land ethic in Meanjin 47(3)

• Results of ethnobotanical research, with analytic focus on the cultural constitution of the environment; Discusses dreaming trees, seasonality and wilderness in relation to Yarralin and Lingara people

1990

Deborah Bird Rose 1990 Gulaga. A Report on the Cultural Significance of Mt Dromedary to Aboriginal People. Presented to the Forestry Commission of NSW and the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

• said in her report on the significance of Gulaga to the Kooris, "Kooris are strongly opposed to logging Gulaga as to damage Gulaga was to physically damage Yuin people, hurting Koori spirit and feeling. Power comes from the mountain and much of Gulaga's power comes from the fact that it is largely unaltered by human activity.
• There is now [in May 1995] a 300m protection zone right around the mountain against logging.

1992

Rose, deborah Bird 1992 Dingo Makes us Human entry, AIATSIS MURA Catalogue

• Genocide and resistance styles; 1966 strike at Wave Hill; 1972 walkoff from Victoria River Downs and Humbert River; founding of Yarralin and Lingara; health statistics; languages used; disempowerment of people; p. 44 meta rules about relationships; p. 46 differences between animals and humans; present state of Dreamings; origin of man; mens sites and womens sites; contrasts Dreaming and white laws; Dreaming strings; p. 59 how women get babies; p. 62 processes of nurture; p. 65 sorcery practices; p. 69 after death beliefs and practices; subsection systems; marriage systems and practices; p. 81 matrilineal inheritance of Dreamings; Dreaming affiliation; p. 85 patrilineal Dreamings; p. 90 supernatural beings and phenomena; p. 98 seasons; p. 105 responsibilities for country; p. 110 bases for relationship; rights to country; warfare; responses to murder; autonomy and dependence; p. 191 ongoing invasion; myths of Captain Cook and Ned Kelly; concepts of time and Dreaming; Yarralin cosmology

2002

Rose, Deborah (2002) Love and reconciliation in the forest : a study in decolonisation in Hawke Institute working paper series

• "This paper takes up the challenge of our position in 'new world' settler societies and seeks a decolonising form of situated justice that brings reconciliation between settlers and Indigenous people together with reconciliation with nature. The paper examines a case study of a fight for a forest in New South Wales. It is a story of an Aboriginal sacred site, of reconciliation, and of alternatives to the status quo that exist in contested places such as forests. It shows us how to imagine alternative futures, and thus how we might work step by step toward decolonisation."; protecting Mount Dromedary from logging by the Forestry Commission of New South Wales by the Umbarra people in 1989"

2005

An Indigenous philosophical ecology: situating the human, Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol.16, no.3, Special Issue 17, (2005), p. [294-305]

• Examines the conception of 'mutual benefit' in the Aboriginal relationship to land; includes extensive reference to the Victoria River District (Timber Creek, Yarralin, Lingara, Pigeon Hole and Daguragu) and the Wagait region south-west of Darwin, NT; metaphysical and ecological value of totemism; seasonal and environmental indicators; relevance to Western approaches to the environment

2013

Deborah Bird Rose: Love on the Edge of Extinction blog

• Living in Sydney with partner and Peter Boyle (poet)

2018

Deborah Bird Rose: Love on the Edge of Extinction blog

• had cancer, in November striving to finish book on flying foxes

Joni Adamson post on Deborah Rose facebook

• died 21 December 2018

[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157106635942792&set=a.10151562126272792&type=3&theater Blunt Jackson post[

• survived by son, Blunt Jackson
• survived by daughter Chantal
• survived by sisters Betsy and Mary, plus brother Will

Mary Rose post

• died after several years Multiple myeloma

Bruceanthro (talk) 04:03, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Deborah Bird Rose Curriculum Vitae

1970-1972

• Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware.

1973

• BA Anthropology (Honors & Distinction) University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

1973-4

• Coordinator, Women's Education Collective, Women's Resource Centre, Newark, Delaware, Teaching 'Women and Our Bodies'

1977

• MA Anthropology Bryn Mawr College

1979

• Adjunct lecturer, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ. 'Introduction to Anthropology'; 'Cultural and Social Change'

1980-2

• Grant - National Science Foundation Grant for research in Aboriginal Australia
• Grant - Yarralin, NT. Research Grantee, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Project: 'Cultural Identity'.

1983-4

• Research Grantee, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Project: 'Religious Identity in the Victoria River District'.

1984

• PhD Anthropology- Bryn Mawr College

1984-8

• Visiting Fellow, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
• 1984 'The Saga of Captain Cook: Morality in Aboriginal and European Law', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 24-39.
• 1985 'Aboriginal Identity vs Christian Identity', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 58-61.
• 1985 'Some ethical issues in archaeology; a methodology of consultation in northern Australia', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, 37-44. (co-authored with Darrell Lewis)

• 1986 The Kidman Springs/Jasper Gorge Land Claim, co-authored with Darrell Lewis, Northern Land Council, Darwin.
• Research Grantee (1986), Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Research Project 'Ethnobotanical Research in the area of Victoria River Downs'.
• Research Grantee (1987), Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Project: 'Culture and Ecology, Victoria River Downs Area'.

1988

• Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, ANU; writing Dingo Makes Us Human.
• 1988 'Exploring an Aboriginal Land Ethic', Meanjin, 47, 3, 378-387.

1989

• Visiting Fellow, History Department (Arts), ANU; writing Hidden Histories.
• 1989 'Remembrance', Aboriginal History, 13, 135-148.
• 1989 'Ned Lives!', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 51-59.
• The Bilinara (Coolibah-Wave Hill Stock Route) Land Claim, co-authored with Darrell Lewis. Northern Land Council, Darwin.

1990-1

• Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology and Prehistory, ANU; Field work, NT.
• Gulaga: A Report on the Cultural Significance of Mt Dromedary to Aboriginal People, Presented to the Forestry Commission of New South Wales and the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service.
• Research Grantee (1990), Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Project: 'Dreaming Ecology, Outback Mythology, and Environmental Degradation: Victoria River Downs Station (NT)'.

1992

• 'Nature and Gender in Outback Australia' History and Anthropology, 5, 3-4, 403-25.

1993

• Visiting Fellow, NARU, ANU, Darwin.
• Kamu People, Kamu Country; Senior Anthropologist’s Report on behalf of the Kamu People, Northern Land Council, Darwin.

1994 (July-December)

• Acting Executive Director, NARU, ANU, Darwin.
• 1994 'Danaiyarri, H.', The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, D. Horton (ed), Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, Vol. 1, p 255.
• 1994 'Humbert Tommy Nyuwinkarri', The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, D. Horton (ed), Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, Vol. 1, p 486
• 1994 'Ned Kelly Died for our Sins', Oceania, 65, 2, 175-86.
• 1994 'Whose confidentiality, Whose intellectual property?' in M. Edmunds, ed, Claims to Knowledge, Claims to Country: Native Title Claims and the Role of the Anthropologist, Summary of Proceedings of the conference Session on Native Title, AAS conference, pp, 1-11, The Native Titles Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.

1995-8

• Senior Fellow, North Australia Research Unit, ANU, Darwin.
• 1995 The Kenbi (Cox Peninsula) Land Claim; Senior Anthropologist's Report on behalf of the Tommy Lyons Group, Northern Land Council, Darwin.
• 1995 'Anthropological Ethics for the Native Title Era', in Proceedings of a workshop, conducted by the Australian Anthropological Society and The Native Titles Research Unit, J. Fingleton & J. Finlayson, eds, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra., pp. 43-51.
• 1995 'Women and Land Claims', Native Titles Research Unit Issues Paper No. 6, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• 1996 'Land Rights and Deep Colonising: The Erasure of Women' Aboriginal Law Bulletin, 3, 85, 6-13.
• 1996 'Indigenous Customary Law and the Courts: Post-Modern Ethics and Legal Pluralism', Discussion Paper No. 2, North Australia Research Unit, Darwin.
• Grants (1996, 1997, 1999) from the Cooperative Research Centre for the Sustainable Development of Tropical Savannas in support of the Northern Landscapes Symposia.

1998-2000

• Senior Fellow, Anthropology Department, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU

2000-2008

• Senior Fellow, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU, Canberra.
• 2001 ‘Aboriginal Life and Death in Australian Nationhood’, Aboriginal History, vol. 25, 148-162.
• 2001 ‘Decolonising the discourse of environmental knowledge in settler societies’, The UTS Review, 7, 2, 43-58.
• 2001 Review Essay: ‘Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology’, Post-colonial Studies, Vol 4, No 2, 251-261.
• 2002 Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 26 (2): ‘Nurturing the Sacred in Aboriginal Australia’ guest edited with Ian Macintosh.
• 2002 Research Grant, National Parks and Wildlife Service, NSW, ‘’Totemism and the Social Context of Plants and Animals in NSW’.
• 2002-2004 with Libby Robin, ARC DP0208361: Nature and Nation: Science, Environment and National Identity in Australia.
• 2003 Research Grant, National Parks and Wildlife Service, NSW, ‘Research into Kinship with the Natural World, Stage 2’
• 2005 ‘An Indigenous Philosophical Ecology: Situating the Human’, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 16 (3), 294-305.

• 2005 ‘Aboriginal Dreaming’, Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Bron Taylor, ed, Continuum International Publishers, New York, (ISBN: 9781843711384), pp. 5-9.

• 2005-2009 ARC Grant, with Libby Robin: ARC DP0665034: ‘Producing biodiversity’.
• 2006 ‘Ecopoetics and the Ecological Humanities in Australia’, Special issue of the Ecological Humanities Section, Australian Humanities Review, No. 39-40.
• 2008 ‘Dreaming Ecology ~ Beyond the Between’, Religion and Literature, 40 (1), 109-122.
• 2008 ‘Fitting into Country: Ecology and Economics in Indigenous Australia’, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 19 (3), 117-121.

2008-2013

• Professor of Social Inclusion, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Sydney
• 2008 ASSA Workshop Grant with Kathie Gibson and Ruth Fincher: ‘An Ethics for Living in the Anthropocene’
• 2009 Macquarie University ‘Safety Net’ Grant: ‘Extinctions in multi-species communities: ways of living and dying in the Anthropocene’
• 2009 ‘Writing Place’, in Ann Curthoys & Ann McGrath (eds), Writing histories: imagination and narration (updated edition, electronic), pp. 08.1-08.13, Monash University EPress, Melbourne.
• 2009 ‘Journey to sacred ground: ethics and aesthetics of Country’ in Makarand Paranjape (ed) Sacred Australia: Post-Secular Considerations, Clouds of Magellan, Melbourne.
• 2010 Academy of Social Science in Australia - International Science Linkages Bilateral Program, with Professor Lin, Yih-ren: ‘Extinction in multi-species communities: moon bear case study’
• 2011-2014 ARC Discovery Project Grant, with Dr Thom van Dooren: ‘Encounters with Extinction: A multi-sited, multi-species approach to life at the edge of catastrophe in the Asia-Pacific region’ (DP110102886)
• 2011 ‘Unloved Others: Death of the disregarded in the time of extinctions’, co-edited with Thom van Dooren, special issue of the Australian Humanities Review, No. 50.

2013 ongoing

• Professor (Adjunct), Environmental Humanities Program, School of Humanities, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
• 2014 ‘The Goodness of Flying-Foxes’, Forum for World Literature Studies, Vol 6, No 1, pp. 77-89.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN & LEADERSHIP IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA

1946

• born in the United States

19XX

• educated @ University of Delaware and Bryn Mawr

1980s

• doctoral work dealing with questions about how a group of Aboriginal people in outback Australia 'posed and answered fundamental questions such as why are we born, why do we live, why do we die?'
• since 1980's ethnographic writing based on long-term fieldwork with Aboriginal people in Australia
• since 1980's ethnographic work has focused on entwined social and ecological justice

1991

• Hidden Histories (1991) won the 1991 Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature.

1992

• Doctoral thesis became the influential book, Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture, first published 1992, third edition printed 2011 ..won the Stanner Prize for a work on Aboriginal issues

1994 to 2008

• was a research scholar at the ANU,

1994 to 2000

• research scholar first at the North Australian Research Unit and then in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

2000-2008

• a senior research fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environment

2004

• Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation (UNSW Press, 2004), short listed for the NSW Premier's Awards

2008

• took up the position of Professor in the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University

2011

• Country of the Heart (2011, second edition)
• Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction (University of Virginia Press, 2011)

2013

• left Macquarie to join the Environmental Humanities Program at UNSW.

2014

• working on a book on relations between humans and animals, which brings Aboriginal philosophy into conversation with western philosophy and contributes to ongoing scholarship in the field of interspecies relations
• previously initiated and edited the 'Ecological Humanities' section of the Australian Humanities Review, now with Thom van Dooren editing a the new online journal entitled Environmental Humanities
• a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
• a member of the American Anthropological Association
• a member the Australian Anthropological Society
• a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

UNSW Professor Deborah Bird Rose

1996

• Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal views of Landscape and Wilderness

2011

• book, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction, asks what constitutes ethical relationships in this era of loss, and is described by Donna Haraway as a ‘wise and generative book’.

Maquarie University Ecological Humanities: Deborah Bird Rose

1980

• In 1980 I came to Australia to do research with Aboriginal people in the hopes that, if successful, I would be able to write a thesis and earn my PhD I came with questions about the meaning of life. I wanted to know how a group of Aboriginal people in outback Australia posed and answered the fundamental questions that humans everywhere ask: why are we born, why do we live, why do we die?

1991

• My Aboriginal teachers were particularly interested in sharing the history of colonisation with outside readers – especially with white Australians and Americans. As part of my payback to them, I wrote a history that incorporated large amounts of their own words: Hidden Histories (Aboriginal Studies Press, Winner, Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature).

1996

• I had started with philosophical questions, but it became clear that the answers were all about country, about place, other living beings, relationships, and responsibilities. The joy of life, I was learning, was found in country and in connection. My research was moving in the direction of closer understandings of environments and was seeking to make connections with environmental philosophy, especially ecofeminist thought
• I was contributing to a growing interest in the west in ‘sense of place’. My next book, Nourishing Terrains, was a wide-ranging analysis of these issues across much of Aboriginal Australia.

2002

• Country of the Heart (Aboriginal Studies Press): I became fascinated with the idea of trying to work with images as well as text, and with multi-voiced texts. My next book, Country of the Heart was written collaboratively with the photographer Sharon D’Amico and a number of senior members of an Aboriginal clan whose Dreaming is the White-breasted Sea Eagle and whose country is in the coastal floodplains of North Australia. This book is visually stunning, and brings great pleasure to those who do not read’n’write as well as to those who do.

2003

I also did some work for National Parks and Wildlife Service (in NSW), seeking ways in which Indigenous knowledge and place-based philosophy could more effectively be brought into mainstream Parks practice. I wrote two major reports, both available on-line:

• Sharing Kinship with Nature: How Reconciliation is Transforming the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
• Indigenous kinship with the natural world

2004

• Reports from a Wild Country (UNSW Press, Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Awards): fundamental issues of place and belonging pose particular problems in Settler Societies such as Australia and the USA. How, as settlers, may we inscribe a moral presence for ourselves in countries we have occupied through violence? How can our love find forms of expression which remember the past and at the same time work toward justice? These questions had been troubling me for a number of years; I addressed them in numerous essays, and finally in my book Reports from a Wild Country

20XX

• "I am a Professor in the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University, Sydney. My work focuses on entwined social and ecological justice in this time of climate change, and is based on my long-term research with Aboriginal people in Australia. I write across several disciplines, including anthropology, history, philosophy, cultural studies and religious studies, and I have worked with Aboriginal people in their claims to land and in other decolonising contexts. I have written numerous books and essays, and have just finished a book called Wild Dog Dreaming

• I had brought with me to Australia my life-long passion for justice, and for many years I worked on Aboriginal claims to land and in other contexts in which people were seeking turn around the history of the brutalities of colonisation.

• My research with Aboriginal people over so many years has led me to ask how we may understand the meaning of life when the basic ‘facts of life’ involve flow, flux, patchiness, kinship, edgy mutuality, and the morality of the return. Val Plumwood proposed two major tasks for western science and philosophy. The first is to re-situate the human in ecological terms, and the second is to re-situate the non-human in ethical terms. Indigenous thought has a great deal to say about both tasks.

Bruceanthro (talk) 02:53, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

On-Line Publications and Resources for Article

Rose, Deborah (2003) Indigenous Kinship with the Natural World in New South Wales

• This report aims to describe and explain the place of totemism in Aboriginal culture(s) in NSW, from 1788 to the present day. It also asks whether 'totemism' is an appropriate concept to describe the social and religious affiliations Aboriginal people have towards plant and animal species. The report suggests that the concept of kinship is perhaps a better term to describe these relationships. The report also helps organisations such as the NPWS to understand and recognise the relationship between land management and totemism. Through land management programs, the report argues that Aboriginal forms of respect for the environment can become a living reality in NSW. The report is the result of a project funded by the NSW Biodiversity Strategy. It is co-authored with Diana James and Christine Watson

Rose, Deborah (2011) "Flying Fox: Kin, Keystone, Kontaminant" in Australian Humanities Review No 50, May 2011

Rose, Deborah (2017) Deborah Bird Rose: Country and the Gift on Youtube

• Anthropology has a responsibility to challenge, disrupt, be a thorn including in discussing Caring for Country
• Country is multidimensional, includes the living and the dead, is a living subject, has own story and people are part of that story
• Country is being appropriated, is being domesticated, is being declawed, defanged, it mimics Aboriginal culture and goes into caricature
• Quotes Cwlth Goivernments Caring for our Country website as example of the domesticating of country, drawing attention to the nature-culture binary, the managerial paradigm,
• Quotes Landcare Victoria table on dosages of poison to inhabit the land through slaughter
• uses Aboriginal? word Punyu not full translatable for all things good and living lorefully/properly, in recursive being to becoming inc fauna

• Taja Kramberger (2013) in "Conversation with Deborah Rose and Peter Boyle" at the International Festival of Poetry, Trois Rivières, Québec, Canada, 11 October 2013 Accessed 1 January 2019

Bruceanthro (talk) 03:57, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

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"My work focuses on entwined social and ecological justice in this time of climate change, and is based on my long-term research with Aboriginal people in Australia. I write across several disciplines, including anthropology, history, philosophy, cultural studies and religious studies ...My research with Aboriginal people over so many years has led me to ask how we may understand the meaning of life when the basic ‘facts of life’ involve flow, flux, patchiness, kinship, edgy mutuality, and the morality of the return .. [proposing] two major tasks for western science and philosophy. The first is to re-situate the human in ecological terms, and the second is to re-situate the non-human in ethical terms. Indigenous thought has a great deal to say about both tasks."

"Rose attempts to show how problems confronting contemporary society are grounded in past conditions and processes .. Rose’s [ethnographic] account of [Yarralin peoples'] contemporary society shows that within social structures and ceremonial institutions, relations between people are dynamic .. Rose is not too concerned about ‘models’ of social organisation. Relationships between people, like relations to country, are said to be organised by .. basic principles, which she describes as ‘the meta-rules of balance, response, symmetry and autonomy’ (p.l05). These ‘meta-rules’ serve to keep the social system in check, by placing limits on ‘the ever-present desire to dominate’ (p.I05).".

References

Linkage of Deborah to Peter boyle poet

They were partners for a long period of time - neither wiki page makes mention of this 49.180.197.23 (talk) 11:03, 30 June 2023 (UTC)