John Bradley (anthropologist)
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'John Bradley has worked with the Yanyuwa community in the south west Gulf of Carpentaria for the last 30 years. His interests are in education, linguistics and environmental issues in Yanyuwa country. He has been the senior anthropologist for two land claims under the Northern Territory (1976) Land Rights Act for the Yanyuwa people and with their assistance has produced a Yanyuwa dictionary and encyclopedia and an atlas of Yanyuwa country. He is also interested in the power and validity of Indigenous Knowledge systems and has undertaken much of his more recent research in this area with the Yanyuwa people. He is presently a senior lecturer in anthropology at Monash University in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Some of his publications include
J. Bradley (in press). When a stone tool is a dingo: Country and relatedness in Australian Aboriginal notions of landscape. In B. David and J. Thomas (eds), Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek.
Bradley,J. 2007 in press “Singing through the sea”: Song, Sea and Emotion in Sylvie Shae and Andrew Francis (eds) Deep Blue: Reflections on Nature, Religion and Water Equinox Publishing, London
Bradley, J. and Devlin-Glass, F. 2006 Western Maps/Yanyuwa Meaning: an Interview with John Bradley in The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland,pp 90-101
Bradley, J. 2005 The Social, Economic and Historical Construction of Cycad Palms among the Yanyuwa in Bruno David, Ian McNiven and Bryce Barker (eds) The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies: Essays on Aboriginal History in Honour of Harry Lourandos Aboriginal Studies press
Bradley, J and Kearny, A. 2005 Landscape with Shadows of once Living People: Kundawira and the Challenge for Archaeology to Understand in Bruno David, Ian McNiven and Bryce Barker (eds) The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies: Essays on Aboriginal History in Honour of Harry Lourandos Aboriginal Studies press
Bradley, J. and K.Seton 2005 “Under the Act” Land Claims, Colonial Authority and Indigenous Representation. B. Hocking (ed) Unfinished Constitutional Business. Aboriginal Studies Press
Bradley, J. and F.Tamisari 2005 Place and Event in A.Minelli, G.Ortalli, G.Sanga (eds) Animal Names Instituto Veneto Di Scienze Lettere Ed Arti, Plazzo Loredan,Campo Santo Stefano, Venice
Bradley, J 2005 Book Review, “Waves of Memory by Nonie Sharp in Australian Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
Bradley, J. and E. Mackinlay 2005 Memories in the Landscape: The Role of Performance in naming and knowing Yanyuwa country for publication in The Soundscape of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality. Open University Press London
Books: Bradley,J., Yanyuwa families and Nona Cameron 2003 “Forget About Flinders” An Indigenous Atlas of the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria. J.M McGregor Ltd Queensland (Limited Edition)
Bradley, J. 1988 Yanyuwa Country: The Yanyuwa people of Borroloola tell the history of their land. Greenhouse Publication, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria
Monographs Bradley, J., Holmes, M.,Norman, D., Isaac, A., Miller, J. and Ninganga, I 2006 Yumbulyumbulmantha ki-awarawu (All kinds of things from Country) Yanyuwa Ethnobiological Classification ,Ngulaig. Monograph series of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit University of Queensland
Bradley, J. 2000 Songs from a plastic water rat: An Introduction to the musical traditions of the Yanyuwa community of the South West Gulf of Carpentaria. N.T. Ngulaig Journal. University of Queensland.
Articles and Book Chapters
Bradley, J and K.Seton 2004 “When you have no Law you are nothing” Cane Toads, Social Consequences and Management Issues. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 5:3 pp205-225
Bradley, J. 2004 Kidnapped Back Home in Hilda Muir, Very Big Journey: My life as I remember it. Aboriginal Studies Press. Canberra pp.140-153
Bradley,J. and E.Mackinlay 2003 Many Songs, Many Voices, Many Dialogues: Yanyuwa performance practices in a remote Aboriginal Community. Rural Society. Vol 14. No2 pp228-243
Bradley,J. and E.Mackinlay 2003 Of mermaids and Spirit Men: Complexities in Categorisation of Two Aboriginal Dance Performances at Borroloola. N.T The Asian Pacific Journal of Anthropology 4 (1) pp1-23
Bradley, J. 2001 Landscapes of the Mind, Landscapes of the Spirit. In R.Baker, J. Davies and E. Young (eds) Working on Country: Contemporary Indigenous Management on Australia’s Lands and Coastal Regions. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Pp.295-304
Bradley,J. 2000 Country of Our Spirit. Yanyuwa land and sea scapes in Michael Crozier (ed) Gardens and landscapes, SAQ South Atlantic Quarterly. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina pp801-816-
Bradley, J. 2000 Lhukannguwarra. A claim to the intertidal zone from the Robinson River Mouth to Bing Bong Creek Mouth, Including the beds and banks of the McArthur River to King Ash Bay, Crooked River and Carrington Channel. Northern Land Council, Darwin. (note this volume is fully refereed by two senior academic anthropologists)
Bradley, J., F. Devlin-Glass and E.Mackinlay 1999 Diwurruwurru: Towards a New Kind of Two Way Class Room in The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. University of Queensland Vol 27. N0.2 pp24-26-A – 40%
Bradley, J.1998 “We always look north”. Yanyuwa Marine Tenure. In Nicholas Peterson and Bruce Rigsby (eds) Customary Marine Tenure. Oceania Monograph University of Sydney pp125-141 –A
Bradley, J.1998 “Men Speak One Way,Women Another in Jenny Coats (ed) Language and Gender: A Reader. Roehampton Institute. Blackwells. London pp.26-35
Bradley, J. 1989 “What would a whitefella know…?” Wester Science-Indigenous Science and Marine Science In R.Kennet (ed) Marine Turtle Conservation and Management in Northern Australia. Proceedings of a workshop held at the Northern Territory University Darwin, 3-4 June 1997, Northern Territory University. Pp25-33 –B
Bradley,J., R.Harvey and D. Norman 1997 “Burning for the ancestors, burning for us” A case study from the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria In B.Mckaige, R.Willimas and W.Waggit (eds) Bushfire ’97 Proceedings. Australia Bushfire Conference 8-10 July 1997. CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre. Darwin pp75-80
Bradley, J. 1997 “We don’t burn for fun”. Some views on Indigenous burning in Northern Australia. Greening News. Greening Australia NT. Newsletter May/June/July/
Bradley, J. 1996 Discovering and Recovering Australia. Generation. Australian Jewish Life and Thought. Vol. 6 No.1&2.pp1-3
Bradley, J. 1995 “Fire: Emotion and Politics: A Yanyuwa Case Study. In D.Rose (ed) Country in Flames: Proceedings of the 1994 symposium on biodiversity and fire in North Australia. Biodiversity Unit, department of the Environment, Sports and Territories and the North Australia Research Unit, Canberra and Darwin. Pp25-33
Bradley, J. 1994 “Some Yanyuwa Songs” in Martin Duwell and R.M.W Dixon (eds) Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and other Aboriginal Song poems. Univeristy of Queensland Press, St. Lucia Queensland.pp 3-67
Bradley, J. 1992 Warnarrwarnarr-Barranyi (Borroloola 2) Land Claim. Anthropologists report on behalf of the claimants. Northern Land Council, Darwin (note this volume is fully refereed by two senior academic anthropologists)
Bradley, J. and J.Kirton and the Yanyuwa Community1992. Yanyuwa Wuka, language from Yanyuwa Country. A Yanyuwa Dictionary and Cultural Resource. Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Bradley, J. 1991 Yanyuwa Bark Canoes. The Great Circle, Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History. Vol 13, No2 pp85-92-A
Bradley, J. 1991 “Li-Maramaranja” The Yanyuwa Hunters of Marine Animals in the Sir Edward Pellew Group. N.T. Records of the South Australian Museum 25(2) Adelaide. S.A pp91-110
Bradley, J. 1988 Yanyuwa: “Men Speak One Way, Women Another”. Aboriginal Linguistics. 1. 126-134 pp56-64
FILMS and other media 1992 Ka-wayawayama (Aeroplane Dance) Film Australia Won award for the best Ethnographic film from the Royal Society of Anthropology London.
1988 Buwarrala Akarriya (Jounrey East) Marndaa Films.
Development of Indigenous Website: Diwurruwurru http://arts.deakin.edu.au/Diwurruwurru/
