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Comparative Indigenous Studies

Dawn Hubbs

Ph.D. Candidate UNISA 1998-2001
Lecturer / Archaeologist

Sunset at Banrock Station - Moving into
Banrock Lagoon - Quarry - South Australia
Photos By Dale Hancock, 2000
Visit Banrock Station Web Site!

University of South Australia, City West Campus
Unaipon School, Yungondi Building
Office: Y2-47A Telephone : (08) 8302 0558
E-Mail: [email protected]

Academic Qualifications:

1998, MA Anthropology, (Archaeology) Northern Arizona University

1995 BA Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

1994 AS and Archaeology Technology, Cabrillo College, California

Teaching and Subject Coordinator (Tutor Grad Assistant) :

Comparative Indigenous Studies, University of South Australia

Aboriginal Studies, UNISA

Introduction to Archaeology, NAU

Ethnography Lab, NAU

Indigenous Perspectives: Cultural Heritage and Resource Management, Grad Assistant, NAU

Humankind Emerging, Peoples in Prehistory, Grad Assistant NAU

Professional Membership: Society for American Archaeology

Research Interests:

Archaeology and Indigenous Heritage- Comparative Indigenous Studies
Cultural Resource Management -Archaeological Methods and Theory
Instructional/public Archaeology

Ph.D. Research Synopsis:

The research will identify and document South Australian Indigenous perceptions of cultural heritage, and contrast these with concepts of heritage implicit in the heritage legislation archaeological practice in South Australia.

The research is incorporating a range of historical material, case studies, and literature reviews. extended analysis of the history of cultural heritage management in Australia. The research will examine assumptions about culture, heritage and meaning incorporated into legislation and archaeological theory and practice and the patterns of conflict between Indigenous communities and the broader South Australian communities over cultural heritage issues.

Historical sequencing of heritage development will highlight issues and problems of contradiction and rationalisation toward heritage perceptions, revealing different or similar voice. Banrock Station is the location for a case study which is testing the heritage process in South Australia. As of August 2000, an archaeological assessment at Banrock is incorporated into the research. Indigenous community involvment is integrated into the over-all scope of research, which is testing heritage articulation between archaeologists, legislation, and cultural resource management policy. Open-ended interview questions need to be flexible between the two groups allowing for multi-voice representation, and eliminating prejudgment bias.

The project will provide a context within which Indigenous perspectives can be incorporated into the cultural heritage discourse of South Australia in an informed framework. Understanding that cultural heritage should be a mutually inclusive discipline, management strategies can be re-negotiated and sustained in order to meet the needs of both scientific and Indigenous communities. Recognising that cultural traditions are going to be reproduced adapted, and re-negotiated is integral to implementing cultural heritage policy. Multiple views support multiple disciplinary agendas in archaeological research, which in turn, 'broaden' the interpretive discourse.

Relevant Works:

2000 Banrock Station:An Archaeological Assessment Report For a Proposed Boardwalk and Walking Trail System at Banrock Station Wine and Wetland Center, South Australia. A Preliminary Report presented by Dawn Hubbs and Dale Hancock.

1998 South Australian Archaeology: Paradigms at the Intersection of Alternative Realities. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Northern Arizona University.

1997 Wupatki Pueblo: Archaeological and Architectural Chronology. Northern Arizona University and Wupatki National Monument, National Park Service.

1996 US Forest Service and Employment Experience. Presentation, Santa Cruz Archaeological Society, California.

1995 Archaeology: Subjective - Objective Perspectives, A Discourse on Archaeological Theory and the Personal. Unpublished Bachelor's Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz.

1993 Land Acquisition and the Pajaro Ohlone Council. Cabrillo College and Department of California Fish and Game, Monterey, California.

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