- Bill Stanner
Emeritus Professor W.E.H. "Bill" Stanner (1905-1981) was an
Australia n anthropologist who worked extensively withIndigenous Australians and played an important role in establishing theAustralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies .He also led the
North Australia Observation Unit (NAOU), the "Nackeroos" or "Curtin’s Cowboys" formed in March 1942 and disbanded March 1945, they patrolled northern Australia for signs of enemy activity.He coined the terms the "
Great Australian Silence " and "everywhen" in the 1968Boyer Lectures titled "After the Dreaming ", reflecting on the silence onIndigenous Australians in Australian history after white settlement.External links
*ABC
Radio National
** [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/history/hindsight/stories/s1252487.htm Report on Bill Stanner] Hindsight, 9 January 2005
** [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective/stories/s1489487.htm Battlefields of Aboriginal History] Perspective 24 October 2005
* [http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/stanner/ W. E. H. Stanner: Anthropologist and Public Intellectual] : a two-day symposium to mark the centenary of the birth of W.E.H. Stanner (1905 - 1981) at the ANU Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Thursday 24 - Friday 25 November 2005
* [http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/about_us/stanner_award Stanner Award] references the Award established by AIATSIS in 1985 in recognition of the significant contribution of the late Emeritus Professor W.E.H. (Bill) Stanner to the establishment and development of the Institute
* [http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/index.php WEH Stanner building] home of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University
* [http://ultra.aiatsis.gov.au/ms/finding_aid/MS3752.htm The WEH Stanner Collection] The papers of William Edward Hanley Stanner were donated to AIATSIS by Mrs Patricia Stanner in 1982
* [http://www.nga.gov.au/Dreaming/Index.cfm?Refrnc=Ch4 The paintings of Nym Bandak] The paintings of Nym Bandak were presented by the National Gallery of Australia at an exhibition 'Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds' at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, the most significant exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art ever to travel abroad
* [http://www.aboriginalhistory.org/journalcontents.html Aboriginal History Volumes 1, 3, 5 & 6] an annual refereed publication in the field of Australian ethnohistory, particularly in the post-contact history of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
* [http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-army-today/state-regts/norforce.htm M Force] references Lieutenant Colonel Bill Stanner, Commanding Officer of the 2/1 Northern Australia Observer Unit (theNackeroos ).
* [http://www.awm.gov.au/underattack/mobilise/nackeroos.asp "The Nackeroos" Australia under attack 1942-43] at theAustralian War Memorial
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