Marcia Langton
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Australian Indigenous Studies Program |
Background
One of Australia's leading authorities on contemporary social issues in Aboriginal affairs, Marcia was appointed Foundation Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne in 2000, after five years as Professor at Charles Darwin University. She has many years experience working as an anthropologist in Indigenous affairs with land councils, the Queensland government, commissions, and universities. Marcia has been a member of the Centre for Aboriginal Reconciliation, serving on the Legal and Cultural Issues Sub-Committee, was Director of the Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management, and has acted as a consultant to the Northern Land Council, the Australian Film Commission, and the mining industry.
Her work in anthropology and the advocacy of Aboriginal rights was recognised in 1993 when she was made a member of the Order of Australia. She was named joint winner (with Larissa Behrendt) of the inaugural Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year in 2002, and became a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2001.
Research Interests
Marcia has published extensively on Aboriginal affairs issues including land rights, resource management, social impacts of development, indigenous disputes, policing and substance abuse, and gender and identity. She also contributes to film and art criticism. Internationally, she has worked on Indigenous rights and conservation and environmental policies, most recently in East Timor. Recent projects include a study of property relations and sense of place in the Princess Charlotte Bay area of eastern Cape York Peninsula, and a major ARC/industry funded study, now in a second phase, of Agreements, treaties and negotiated settlements with Indigenous peoples.
Supervision
- Agreements
- Indigenous Art
- Indigenous Cultural Heritage
- Wildlife Ownership
- Indigenous Employment
Teaching
- Native Title
- Yolngu Studies
- Human Rights and Indigenous People
- Indigenous Culture
Publication awards:
American Libraries Association Choice annual List of Outstanding Academic Titles list: January 2006
Honour Among Nations?: Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People (ed) Marcia Langton et al
The titles on Choice's annual Outstanding Academic Titles list have been chosen for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, their significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important - often the first - treatment of the subject.
Publications
Marcia Langton., Mazel, O., Palmer, L., and Tehan, M. 2006. 'Introduction', in Langton et al (eds), Settling with Indigenous Peoples: Case Studies of Agreement Making, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW. (forthcoming)
Marcia Langton and Palmer L.. 'Keeping the fires burning: Grievance and aspiration in the Ngai Tahu Settlement, In Langton et al (eds) Settling with Indigenous Peoples: Case Studies of Agreement Making Federation Press, Annandale, NSW. (forthcoming)
Crooke, P., Harvey, B., and Marcia Langton. Implementing and Monitoring Indigenous Land Use Agreements in the Minerals Industry: An Australian Case Study The Western Cape Communities Co-existence Agreement' in Langton et al (eds) SETTLING WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: CASE STUDIES OF AGREEMENT MAKING, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW. (forthcoming)
Marcia Langton, Odette Mazel and Lisa Palmer, Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements Database. In Laurel Evelyn Dyson, Max Hendriks and Stephen Grant (eds.), Information Technology and Indigenous People, Information Science Publishing, Hershey (Pennsylvania) and London, 2006 [2007]: 266-270.
Marcia Langton, Reviving Indigenous Sovereignty?: Responses to Henry Reynolds. In Macquarie Law Journal Volume 6, 2006: 19-21.
Marcia Langton, Odette Mazel and Lisa Palmer, The ‘Spirit’ of the Thing: The Boundaries of Aboriginal Economic Relations at Australian Common Law. In The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 17, Number 3, December 2006, Special Issue 18. Delimiting Indigenous Cultures: Conceptual and Spatial Boundaries; Guest Editors: Patrick Sullivan and Toni Bauman, 2006: 307-321.
Marcia Langton, Odette Mazel, Lisa Palmer and Maureen Tehan (eds), Settling with Indigenous People. Modern treaty and agreement-making. The Federation Press, Sydney, 2006.
Marcia Langton, Odette Mazel, Lisa Palmer and Maureen Tehan, Sharing Land and Resources: Modern Agreements and Treaties with Indigenous People in Settler States. In Marcia Langton, Odette Mazel, Lisa Palmer and Maureen Tehan (eds), Settling with Indigenous People. Modern treaty and agreement-making. The Federation Press, Sydney, 2006: 1-18.
Sir Tipene O’Regan, Lisa Palmer and Marcia Langton, Keeping the Fires Burning: Grievance and Aspiration in the Ngai Tahu Settlement. In Marcia Langton, Odette Mazel, Lisa Palmer and Maureen Tehan (eds), Settling with Indigenous People. Modern treaty and agreement-making. The Federation Press, Sydney, 2006: 44-65.
Peter Crooke, Bruce Harvey and Marcia Langton, Implementing and Monitoring Indigenous Land Use Agreements in the Minerals Industry: The Western Cape Communities Co-existence Agremeent. In Marcia Langton, Odette Mazel, Lisa Palmer and Maureen Tehan (eds), Settling with Indigenous People. Modern treaty and agreement-making. The Federation Press, Sydney, 2006: 95-112.
Marcia Langton, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water: The Social and Spiritual Construction of Water in Aboriginal Societies. In Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J. McNiven (eds), The social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous societies, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2006: 139-160.
Marcia Langton, Goowoomji’s World. In Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006: 99-109.
Marcia Langton, Out from the Shadows. In Meanjin. Special Issue: Blak Times: Indigenous Australia, Editor: Ian Britten, Guest Co-Editor: Peter Minter. Volume 65, Number 1, 2006: 55-64.
Marcia Langton, Intimate Places and Terrifying Spaces. In The Australian Literary Review, Issue 1, Volume 1, September 2006: 16-17.
Martin Nakata and Marcia Langton (eds), Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Libraries, Canberra, Australian Academic & Research Libraries, ACT. 2005 (forthcoming)
Marcia Langton, Waterscapes: The social and spiritual construction of water in Aboriginal societies, In Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J. McNiven (eds), The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2005.
Marcia Langton and Bruno David, William Ricketts Sanctuary, Victoria (Australia). Sculpting Nature and Culture in a Primitivist Theme Park In Jane Lydon and Tracy Ireland (eds), Object Lessons:. Archaeology and Heritage in Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Kew, Victoria, 2005,
Marcia Langton and Zane Ma Rhea, Traditional Indigenous Biodiversity-related Knowledge, In Martin Nakata and Marcia Langton (eds), Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Libraries, Canberra, Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2005, pages 47-72.
Marcia Langton Ma Rhea, Z., and Palmer, L., Community Oriented Protected Areas for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: A Study of Developments Australasia, In Journal of Political Ecology, Vol. 12, 2005
Marcia Langton, Making the land speak: Aboriginal sub-alterns and garrulous visuality, In, Knowledge + Dialogue + Exchange. remapping cultural globalisms from the south. Artspace, Sydney, 2005.
Langton, Marcia, Palmer, Lisa, Tehan, Maureen and Shain, Kathryn, (eds) Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2004.
Marcia Langton, (2004) Sacred Geography, In Charlesworth, Max, Francoise Dussart and Howard Morphy (eds), Aboriginal Religions in Australia, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, England, 131-141
Marcia Langton, The Nations of Australia, In P Boyer, L Cardinal & D Headon (eds), From subjects to citizens: A hundred years of citizenship in Australia and Canada, University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa, 2004:191-209
Marcia Langton, MF Tehan & LR Palmer, Introduction, In ML Langton et al. Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements in Indigenous People, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004: 1-26.
Marcia Langton & LR Palmer, “Treaties, agreement making and the recognition of Indigenous customary polities” in ML Langton et al. Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements in Indigenous People, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004: 34-49.
Marcia Langton, Unsettling sovereignties, In ML Langton et al. Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements in Indigenous People, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004: 29-33.
Marcia Langton & LR Palmer ‘Treaties, ‘Agreement Making and the Recognition of Indigenous Customary Polities’ in Langton et al (eds) Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements in Indigenous People, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004: 34-49
Marcia Langton Ma Rhea, Z., and Palmer, L., Community Oriented Protected Areas for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: A Study of Developments Australasia, In Journal of Political Ecology, Vol. 12, 2005 (forthcoming)
Marcia Langton, B David, Art as a social momentum: coming into being in Yolngu art, In Archaeological Review from Cambridge, , Art and Archaeology, Unmasking Material Culture, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 19(1), 2004: 47-60.
Marcia Langton (2004) “Economic justice: a new deal for Indigenous Australians”,Pacific Ecologist, 4: 23-31.
Marcia Langton (2004) “Response” in G Greer Whitefella jump up, Profile Books, London: 158-170.
Marcia Langton (2004) “Accelerated Education. Addressing education gaps and the ‘whole of
life’ crisis facing Australian Indigenous youth” Australian Prospect, No 1, http://www.australianprospect.com.au
Grossman, M with Anderson, I Langton ML, Moreton-Robinson, I. (eds) Blacklines. Contemporary critical writing by Indigenous Australians. Michele Grossman, Coordinating editor. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2003
ML Langton, ‘Introduction: Culture Wars’, in Grossman, M. (ed), Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians, Melbourne University Press, Carlton (2003) 81-91.
ML Langton, “Aboriginal art and film: the politics of representation” in Michelle Grossman et al (eds), Blacklines. Contemporary critical writing by Indigenous Australians, MUP (2003) 109-124.
ML Langton, ‘Grounded and Gendered: Aboriginal Women in Australian Cinema’ in Lisa French (ed) Eomenvision: Women and The Moving Image in Austalia, Damned Publishing, Melbourne (2003).
ML Langton, ‘The “Wild”, the Market, and the Native: Indigenous People Face New forms of Global Colonization’ in Vertovec, S and Posey D (eds) Globalization , Globalism, Environments, and Environmentalism. Consciousness of Connections, The Linacre Lectures, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2003) 141-167.
ML Langton, Palmer, Lisa ‘Negotiating Settlements: Indigenous peoples, settler states and the significance of treaties and agreements’, in Treaty Let’s Get it Right, AIATSIS & ATSIC, Canberra (2003).
ML Langton and Palmer, Lisa (2003) ‘Modern Agreement Making and Indigenous People in Australia: Issues and Trends’ 8(1) Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 1
ML Langton and D Bruno (2003) “William Ricketts Sanctuary, Victoria (Australia): Sculpting Nature and Culture in a Primitivist Theme Park”. 8.(2) Journal of Material Culture 145-168
Marcia Langton “A Fireside Chat” in Prehistory to Politics – John Mulvaney, The Humanities and the Public Intellectual, Tim Bonybady & Tom Griffiths (eds) Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1996, pp. 134-143
Marcia Langton “A national strategy to deal with exploration and mining on or near Aboriginal land”, in Langton, M and N. Peterson, eds. Aborigines, land and land rights, Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1983: 385-402. Annotation: Analysis of recommendations by government enquiries and requirements for impact statements by mining companies; case study of CRA (Exploration) Pty Ltd and the Warmun community (Turkey Creek) in Argyle Prospect area; includes Ranger and Yirrkala enquiries.
Marcia Langton “A negotiated story in a particular context – the politics of Aboriginal polling, Derby, 1980”, Paper, Australian Historical Association, Aboriginal History Section.
Marcia Langton “A short paper on government spending on Aboriginal affairs”, (with covering letter), Woden, ACT, Federal Council of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, 1977.
Marcia Langton “Aborigines and Policing: Aboriginal solutions from Northern Territory communities”, The Wentworth Lecture, Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1992, No. 2.
Marcia Langton “Aboriginal art and film: the politics of representation”, in Race and Class, A Journal for Black and Third World Liberation (Special issue: Aboriginal Australia: Land, law and culture), Vol 35, April-June 1994, No 4, Institute of Race Relations, London, 1994: 89-106.
Marcia Langton “Aboriginal Australians”, UNESCO Review Australia, Nov.1989: no. 17, p. 15-18. Annotation: Aboriginal society and culture.
Marcia Langton “Aboriginal land rights in Australia: background paper, draft survey and recommendations presented to World Council of Indigenous Peoples in North Queensland Messagestick, 1981, North Queensland Land Council: 6(2): 8-9. Annotation: Reviews the land rights situation in each state: main disputes and cases, legal provisions, impact of mining.
Marcia Langton “Aboriginal land rights in Australia” background paper, draft survey and recommendations. Canberra, 1981.
Marcia Langton “Aboriginal land rights: extract from the NAC background paper on land rights”, in Deel, G. “Indigenous freedom now” ACFOA Development Dossier 1981: 5: 12-16. Annotation: surveys the land rights situation in each state, summarising main developments and problems.
Marcia Langton “Aboriginal Law” in Too Much Sorry Business: The report of the Aboriginal Issues Unit of the Northern Territory to the Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 1990.
Marcia Langton “Aboriginal women and the bureaucracy”, paper presented tot he Women and Politics Conference, 1975, Canberra, ACT.
Marcia Langton “Aboriginal women must act: International Convention threatens Aboriginal cultural freedom” in Identity, 1981 : 4 (3) : 38-39. Annotation: Criticism of Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women re maternity, family education in traditional society.
Marcia Langton After the tent embassy: images of Aboriginal history in black and white photographs, 1983 Woollahra, NSW : Vladon, Annotation: Photographic research by W. Stacey and N. Perroux; photographs first shown at an Apmira Festival Exhibition, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney, 1982.
Marcia Langton “Allardal” in Arena Magazine, Arena Publications, Fitzroy, Victoria, No. 17, June/July 1995, pp. 28-32.
Marcia Langton “Anthropologists must change” Identity, 1981:4 (4):11. Annotation: Abridged version of a paper given at ANZAAS Conference, 1981, outlining some difficulties and misunderstandings in Aboriginal anthropology; see also author’s comments in Identity, 1981, 4(5): 4.
Marcia Langton “Art, Wilderness and terra nullius” in Ecopolitics IX. Perspectives on Indigenous Peoples Management of Environment Resources, Northern Territory University, Darwin 1-3, 1995. Conference Papers and Resolutions. Northern Land Council, 1996, pp. 11-24.
Marcia Langton “Beyond Howard’s ten Point Plan”, Menzies Institute Seminar, June 1998.
Shared Inheritances Lecture, Getty Institute, July 1998.
Marcia Langton “Bitter Old Men Ruin Golden Moment” in The Telegraph Mirror, September 18, 1994: 34.
Marcia Langton “Blacks: the ALP government and Australian racism”, Alternate News Service, 1975:49:3-5. Annotation: Obstructionism and lack of effective policy by Labor Government.
Marcia Langton “Bridge to parliament” in Aboriginal & Islander Identity, 1980: 4(1): 30-32. Annotation: Ernie Bridge from Kimberley in WA Parliament; history of his candidacy.
Marcia Langton “Burning Questions: emerging environmental issues for indigenous peoples in northern Australia”, CINCRM 1998.
Marcia Langton “Chairperson’s Message” Report of the Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies for the year 30 June 1996; AIATSIS, Canberra 1995/6.
Marcia Langton Emerging Environmental Issues in Relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, a paper presented to the National Environmental Law Conference “Managing our Natural Environment: A Shared Responsibility”, April 1997.
Marcia Langton “Estate of Mind: The Growing Cooperation between Indigenous and Mainstream Managers of Northern Australian Landscapes and the Challenge for Educators and Researchers”, in P. Havemann Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp: 71-87.
Marcia Langton “FCAATSI Secretary – Marcia Langton’s report” in Aboriginal & Islander Forum, 1978: 3(4):10. Annotation: Reports on need to and process of rebuilding and adapting FCASTSI’s organisation and policy.
Marcia Langton “Feminism: what do Aboriginal women gain?” in Broadside, Vol. 1 no. 1 (Nov 1989). Annotaton: High level of domestic violence in Northern Territory; relation between domestic violence in Northern Territory; relation between domestic violence and alcohol abuse; discusses shared goals and areas for debate between Aboriginal women and “women’s movement”; asks what factors determine oppression of women in Aboriginal society; gains made for Aboriginal women by feminist reforms.
Marcia Langton “Grandmothers’ Law, company business and succession in changing Aboriginal land tenure systems” in Yunupingu, Galarrwuy (ed), Our Land is Our Life. Land Rights Past and Future, UQP, Brisbane, 1997, pp. 84-116.
Marcia Langton “Grog: too much sorry business”, Yarranma, 1991: v. 4 no. 1, p. 8-9 Annotation: Alcohol and its incorporation into the Aboriginal cultural economy.
Marcia Langton “Have your say; how to make a submission on your land rights to the Parliamentary Committee” in Koorakookoo, 1979: no. 3, p.5. Annotation: How to make land rights submissions.
Marcia Langton “Indigenous Intellectual Property”, CRC for Tropical Savanna Board and Committee Meeting, March 1998.
Marcia Langton “Introduction”, in Michaels, Eric, Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons, St Leonards, NSW, Allen & Unwin, 1994: xxvii-xxxvi.
Marcia Langton “Labor and land rights: the great surrender”, Australian Left Review, 1986, 96: 33-37. Annotation: Failure of Qld and WA governments to adhere to Federal Labor policy; lack of consultation with Aboriginal people; states the aims of the National Federation of Land Councils.
Marcia Langton “Land Rights: a brief history” in Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, AIATSIS 1994.
Marcia Langton “Looking at Aboriginal women and power: fundamental misunderstandings in the literature and new insights” in Monash University: Aboriginal Research Centre – Aborigines’ perception of their heritage: Aboriginal and Maori languages: land rights and compensation: papers presented at the ANZAAS Festival of Science, August 1985, Clayton, Vic. Annotation: Examines text by J. Bern in order to assess Marxist theory in relation to traditional society: role of gender in ritual.
Marcia Langton “Medicine square” in Being Black, Keen, I (ed), 1988, Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1988: p. 201-225. Annotation: Swearing, fighting as dispute processing, social ordering devices; continuation of traditional cultural pattern; suppression by Australia’s legal system; law reform; identity.
Marcia Langton “Native Title is a State of Mind” in Australian Financial Review, January 1997.
Marcia Langton “Noonkanbah – the fight goes on” Woroni, 1980:32(10): 14 Criticizes Minister for Aboriginal Affairs for allowing agreement to be signed between CRA and certain Turkey Creek and Glenhill Aborigines over the Argyle diamond deposit.
Marcia Langton “Nous ne sommes pas un peuple en voie d’extinction!” entretien avec Marcia Langtion; traduit par Jacques Poli, in Australie noire, Sylvie Girardet, Claire merleau-Ponty et Anne Tardy (eds), Paris : Autrement Revue, 1989: p. 175-181. Annotation: Autobiographical account of poverty in Queensland, Aboriginal camps, racism, discrimination and exploitation in Brisbane; participation in activist movements and Aboriginal health organisations; academic career and work for Central Land Council, antagonism of Northern Territory government and mining companies towards land rights.
Marcia Langton “Pauline as the thin end of the wedge”, in Phillip Adams (ed) The Retreat from Tolerance edited by Phillip Adams, Sydney: ABC books, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1997, pp. 86-107.
Marcia Langton “Preparing black history; report on working party of Aboriginal historians for bicentennial history” in Identity, 1981: 4 (5):7-8. Annotation: Discusses the context, values and methodology of Aboriginal historians for bicentennial history” in Identity, 1981: 4 (5): 7-8. Annotation: Discusses the context, values and methodology of Aboriginal historiography.
Marcia Langton “Racism: Murdoch’s black bash rebounds; Stone age journalism” in Windschuttle, K; Windschuttle, E., Fixing the news; critical perspectives on the Australian media, Noth Ryde, NSW, 1981: 137-142, Articles reprinted from New Journalist, 24 September 1976 and 30 April 1978. Annotation: Criticizes racism inherent in stereotyping and inaccuracies about Aboriginal people in articles in Murdoch-owned newspapers; case studies of reporting on Sydney Aborigines and on uranium royalities in the Northern Territory.
Marcia Langton “Representations and Indigenous Images” Diversity, the Arts and the Way We See Ourselves, Global Diversity Conference, 26th-28th April 1995, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia.
Marcia Langton Reviews A matter of justice by C.D. Rowley and Kulinma by H.C. Coombs in Aboriginal & Islander Identity, 1979: 3(11): 34-35.
Marcia Langton “Rum Seduction and Death: Aboriginality and Alcohol” in Oceania, 1992:6-19.
Marcia Langton “Self Determination: overhauling the administrative practices of colonisation”, in Surviving Columbus Jull, P, Mulrennan, M, Sullivan, M, Crough, G and Lea, D (eds), 1994, North Australia Research Unit, ANU, Darwin. Annotation: proceedings of conference of same name held in Darwin 1992; discusses the role and ultimate superseding of ATSIC and of direct, untied funding to Aboriginal organisations.
Marcia Langton “Social problems associated with uranium mining on Aboriginal land in NT” Canberra, Australia Council for Overseas Aid, Research Information Service 15, Cover title: Uranium mining: the impact on Aboriginal lifestyles. Text of paper delivered to the ACFOA Summer School held Hobart, January 1978. Annotation: Second Ranger Report; problems for Aborigines stemming from mining towns, tourism, social description, alcohol, sex ,health, royalties; Kakadu National Park.
Marcia Langton “Social problems associated with uranium mining on Aboriginal Land” in Thomson, P; Henry, M. Future directions in resources management, Melbourne: Australain Frontier, 1981: 153-156 Annotation: Extract from 1978 paper of the same title, q.v. for annotation.
Marcia Langton “Stone age journalism (on press reporting of Aborigines and uranium mining). New Journalist, 1978, 30:10-11.
Marcia Langton “Telling it like it is”, Land Rights News, 1987: v.2 no. 3,p .9 Annotation: excerpt from speech in rebuttal of mining industry propaganda at Kununurra conference.
Marcia Langton “The budget [government cuts in the D.A.A.]” in Aboriginal & Islander News, 1977:1(1):4-7.
Marcia Langton “The European Construction of Wilderness” in Wilderness News, Summer 1995/96;pp. 16-17.
Marcia Langton “The getting of power” in Australian Feminist Studies, No. 6 (1988) Annotation: Views on the role of feminism and the Aboriginal response to treaty negotiations; includes list of demands to be addressed in a treaty.
Marcia Langton “The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair: How Aboriginal Women’s Religion Became an Administerable Affair”, Australian Feminist Studies, 1996 11 (24): 211-217.
Marcia Langton “The International lobby and the Makarrata” in Olbrei, E.K., Black Australians: the prospects for change, Townsville, Qld: James Cook University Students Union, 1982: 68-77. Annotation: Implications for concept of self-determination and rights before United Nations.
Marcia Langton “The North Coast – more submissions from Aboriginal groups [in NSW] in Koori-murri, 1979: 2:6-8. Annotation: Description of visit to north coast of New South Wales and discussions with local Aborigines.
Marcia Langton “The Queensland Acts”, paper presented to the Women and Politics Conference, 1975, Canberra, ACT.
Marcia Langton “The role of Aborigines in the United Nations”, Paper, Conference on Aborigines and Intenational Law, Centre for Continuing Education, ANU.
Marcia Langton “The Two Women looked back over their shoulders and lamented leaving their country: detached comment (recent urban art) and symbolic narrative (traditional art)” in Art Monthly Australia supplement, Aboriginal Art in the Public Eye, 1992:7-9.
Marcia Langton “The United Nations and indigenous minorities: a report on the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations”, paper presented at Aborigines and International Law Conference, Canberra, November 1983, conducted by Aboriginal Treaty Committee, in International Law and Aborigianl human rights, Hocking, Barbara (ed) Sydney: The Law Book Company, 1988:83-92. Annotation: Methods of operation, protocol, members in 1983; indigenous rights, self-determination; future plans, recommendations.
Marcia Langton “The Valley of the Dolls: Destiny Deacon, No Fixed Dress at gallery gabrielle pizzi in ART Asia pacific”, Art Australia Monthly, September 1997.
Marcia Langton “Too much sorry business”: the report of the Aboriginal Issues Unit of the Northern Territory prepared by Marcia Langton [et al.] in Johnston, Elliot F. – National report, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, 1991, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, v. 5, p. 275-512; Contributors Ah Matt, L; Moss, B; Schaber, E; Mackinolty, C; Thomas, M; Tilton, E; Spencer, L Jungarrayi. Annotation: Chapters on Aboriginal alcohol use, including Aboriginal responses to alcohol problem; two laws – interaction and conflict of Aboriginal customary laws and Australian law; Aboriginal / police relations, including Aboriginal initiatives in community policing, education and crime reduction; family lifestyle, children and alcohol and petrol sniffing, solutions; recommendations; consultations; Tangentyere Council submission to Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody; Aboriginal responses and opinions included throughout the submission.
Marcia Langton “Two Ways reconciliation” in The Weekend Australian, January 25-26, 1997.
Marcia Langton “United Nations and Indigenous Minorities”, United Nations 1988.
Marcia Langton “Urbanising Aborigines: the social scientists’ great deception” in Black alternatives in Australia, Brisbane, Social Alternatives, 1981: 16-22. Annotation: Refutes social theories which deny distinctive cultural identity of a large section of the Aboriginal population, including full blood-half caste, urban-rural-tribal and culture of poverty theories.
Marcia Langton “Valuing Cultures: Recognising Indigenous cultures as a Valued Part of Australian Heritage”, Australian Government Publishing Service 1994.
Marcia Langton “Walungari and Wurrnganjen songs: Ngarinyin, Wunambul and Worora “Initiation songs for boys”, D Mowaljarlai, transcripts prepared by M. Langtion in Derby, WA, 1982. Typescript and holograph (photocopy).
Marcia Langton “Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television…” an essay for the Australian Film Commission on the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking by and about Aboriginal people and things, 1993 North Sydney, NSW: Australian Film Commission. Annotation: Analysis of films and videos about and by Aboriginal people; production; distribution; audiences; politics of Aboriginal representation’ Aboriginality; cultural values in co-productions; Jardiwarnpa; Warlpiri approach to cultural restrictions on representation; Northern Land Council film protocol.
Marcia Langton “Western Australia: “democracy” at work [Kimberley elections and Aboriginal postal votes] in Woroni, `1980: 32 (4):9.
Marcia Langton “What Do We Mean by Wilderness? Wilderness and Terra Nullius in Australian Art” in The Sydney Papers, Summer 1996, Vol.8, No:1, pp11-31.
Marcia Langton “Why ‘race’ is a central idea in Australia’s construction of the idea of a nation”, 1998 Fullbright Symposium, April 1998.
Marcia Langton “Why ‘race’ is a central idea in Australia’s construction of the idea of a nation”, in S. Mogarey (ed.) Human Rights and Reconciliation, University of Queensland Press, 1999.
Marcia Langton “Wik Opponents Weak on Logic” in Australian Financial Review, January 1997.
Marcia Langton “Women in council [role of urban Aboriginal women]” in Aboriginal & Islander Identity, 1979: 3 (11) :27. Annotation: Lack of women on land councils; proposed women’s task force.
Marcia Langton “Working Party of Aboriginal Historians for the Bicentennial History 1788-1988. Aboriginal History and the Bicentennial History 1788-1988. Aboriginal history and the bicentennial volumes. Australia 1939-1988, 1981, 3:21-25.
BARRY, Kristen, and Langton, Marcia. Aboriginal Women and Economic Ingenuity, in B. Caine (general editor) Australian Feminism a companion, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 pp. 3-11.
COOMBS, Herbert Cole. Australia’s policy towards Aborigines 1967-1977; (preface by Marcia Langton. London, Minority Rights Group, 1978).
DUFF, Gordon and Langton, Marcia “Kakadu article full of bad science and gossip”, Marcia Langton and Gordon Duff in the Australian, Financial Review, 2 February 1998.
GILBERT, Kevin J. and others. “Black voices” (extracts from speeches and writings by Aborigines). Australian Social Studies, 1078: 98-9.
HORNER, Jack and M. Langton, “The Day of Mourning” in Australians: A Historical Library, Australians 1938, Fairfax, Symes & Weldon, Broadway, 1987: 29-34.
HORTON, David (chief editor), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, 1994, various entries by Marcia Langton, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, ACT.
JONAS, Bill and M Langton, The Little Red, Yellow and Black (and green and blue and white) Book: a short guide to indigenous Australia, 1993, reprinted with updates 1994, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra ACT. Annotation: Covers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and contemporary issues; chronology of Aboriginal history from 120000 BP to present; produced in conjunction with the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
LANGTON Marcia and N. Peterson, (eds) Aborigines, Land and Land Rights. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1983. Annotation: Collection of papers by anthropologists and lawyers presented to the Aborigines, Land and Land Rights Conference, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1982.
LANGTON, Marcia and B.J. Kirkpatrick, “A listing of Aboriginal periodicals”, Aboriginal History, 1979, 3 (2): 120-7.
LANGTON, Marcia and L. Shea. “Uranium mining: the impact on Aboriginal lifestyles [in Arnhem Land]” in Survival International Review, 1978: 3 (3): 1215. Annotation: With comments on possible effects of alcohol and on health.
LANGTON, Marcia, J Stead and P Memmott, P, Wakaya/Alyawarre Land Claim Anthropologists’ Report, 1988, Central Land Council, Alice Springs.
SCOTT, Evelyn, Langton, Marcia. and R. Hammond. “Bureaucracy and Aboriginals”, transcript of address and discussion, in Women and Politics, Canberra, 1975. (Proceedings). Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1977. 2:55-62.
WILLIAMS. Nancy and Langton, Marcia “The law of the land holds sway”, in the Age, 23 February 1998.