(Post)colonial theory and the Other

Of interest here are colonial constructions of archaeological knowledge, in particular in the notion of 'preunderstanding': that is, how knowledge is always constructed in historical context while activated in the present, resulting in understandings of history that are always subject to societal preconceptions. I have focused in particular on the way that non-Indigenous commentators (academic and popular) have consciously and/or subliminally imposed prejudices on their narratives, in particular as these concern Australian Aboriginal peoples and their histories.

• 2006 by B. DAVID, B. Barker & I. McNiven (eds). The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies . Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• 2006 by B. DAVID & T. Denham. Unpacking Australian prehistory. In B. DAVID, B. Barker & I. McNiven (eds), The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies , pp. 52-71. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• 2006 by B. DAVID. Archaeology and the Dreaming: toward an archaeology of ontology. In I. Lilley (ed.), Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific islands , pp. 48-68. Blackwell, London.
• 2005 by M. Langton & B. DAVID. Nature and culture in a forest park: William Ricketts and his sanctuary, Victoria. In J. Lydon & T. Ireland (eds), Object Lessons: archaeology and heritage in Australia , pp. 71-88. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.
• 2005 by B. DAVID and I. McNiven. The sea, the spirits and the ancestors. In S. Wright (ed.), Sesserae: the works of Dennis Nona , pp. 7-10. Queensland College of Art, Brisbane.
• 2005 by B. DAVID. Sur les traces de l 'ancienne religion des Aborigènes d'Australie. Religions et Histoire 2: 36-43.
• 2005 by B. DAVID. Review of C. Smith and H.M Wobst's 'Indigenous Archaeologies: decolonizing theory and practice'. Archaeology in Oceania 40: 119-20.
• 2005 by B. DAVID & I.J. McNiven. The spirits in the art. In Fremantle Arts Centre, Print Matters , pp. 32-33. Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle.
• 2005 by B. DAVID. Rock art and oral traditions in Torres Strait. The Courier Mail 3 May, p. Headst@rt 3.
• 2004 by B. DAVID. Intentionality, agency and an archaeology of choice. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 14(1): 67-71.
• 2004 by B. DAVID, I. McNiven, L. Manas, J. Manas, S. Savage, J. Crouch, G. Neliman & L. Brady. Goba of Mua: archaeology working with oral tradition. Antiquity 78: 158-172.
• 2004 by M. Langton & B. DAVID. Art as social momentum: coming into being in Yolŋu art. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 19(1): 47-60.
• 2003 by L.M. Brady, B. DAVID, L. Manas & the Mualgal (Torres Strait Islanders) Corporation. Community archaeology and oral tradition: commemorating and teaching cultural awareness on Mua Island, Torres Strait. TheAustralian Journal of Indigenous Education 31: 41-49.
• 2003 by M. Langton & B. DAVID. William Ricketts Sanctuary, Victoria (Australia): sculpting nature and culture in a primitivist theme park. Journal of Material Culture 8(2): 145-168.
• 2003 by B. DAVID. Hunting for patterns, gathering the data. CambridgeArchaeological Journal 13(1): 139-142.
• 2002 by B. DAVID. Landscapes, Rock-art and the Dreaming: an archaeology of preunderstanding . Leicester University Press, London.
• 2002 by B. DAVID, M. Langton & I. McNiven. Re-inventing the wheel: indigenous peoples and the master race in Philip Ruddock's 'wheel' comments. PAN - Philosophy, Activism, Nature 2: 31-46.
• 2002 by M. Wilson & B. DAVID. Introduction. In B. DAVID and M. Wilson (eds), Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place , pp. 1-9. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.
• 2002 by B. DAVID & M. Wilson. Spaces of resistance: graffiti and indigenous place markings in the early European contact period of northern Australia. In B. DAVID and M. Wilson (eds). Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place , pp. 42-60. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.
• 2002 by B. DAVID, P. Kershaw & N. Tapper. Bridging Wallace's Line: bringing home the Antipodes. In P. Kershaw, B. DAVID, N. Tapper, D. Penny & J. Brown (eds), Bridging Wallace's Line: the Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Australian-Southeast Asian Region , pp. 1-4. Advances in Geoecology 34, Catena Verlag GMBH, Reiskirchen.
• 2002 by B. DAVID. Review of J.L. Pearson's 'Shamanism and the Ancient Mind: a cognitive approach to archaeology'. Oceania 73(1): 81-82.
• 2002 by B. DAVID. Review of J. Doring's 'Gwion Gwion: secret and sacred pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal people of Australia'. Rock Art Research 19: 140.
• 2002 by B. DAVID. Making sense: embodying the past. CambridgeArchaeological Journal 12: 267-268.
• 2002 by B. DAVID. Comment on Winkelman's 'Shamanism and Cognitive Evolution'. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12: 88-89.
• 2001 by B. DAVID. Review of David S. Whitley's 'Handbook of Rock Art Research'. The Artefact 24: 47-48.
• 2001 by B. DAVID. An agency of choice? Cambridge Archaeological Journal 11(2): 270-271.