Aboriginal Surfing: Reinstating Culture and Country

Aboriginal surfing: reinstating culture and country

Mainstream surfing in Australia is a discursive cultural practice, institutionally sanctioned as integral to national identity. Surfing represents the nation through a mode of white heterosexual orientation that is encoded into its practices and its texts. Surfing represents an historical transformation in the national psyche from the bush, inaugurated by the nation’s literary canon, to the bea...

Accountability and Aboriginal Culture

Culture-based literacy and Aboriginal health.

This is a summary report of the Aboriginal content of the Language and Culture theme at the Canadian Public Health Association's Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health. Our key premise is that Indigenous conceptualizations of literacy need to build on Indigenous understandings and perspectives. We support this premise through a review of the relevant literature in the disciplines of ...

Genetics, Culture and Identity in Indian Country

It seems it is still a widely unquestioned belief that culture and the identity to be derived from culture (similar to beliefs about race) have biological bases. This can be seen as advances in genetic research are used or proposed for use in detecting evidence of such socialization whether in living people or in human remains. There has been at least one proposal that DNA testing be used to de...

Reinstating the Novelty P3

P300 (or P3) is a major positive complex in the human event-related potential, occurring some 300 ms after stimulus onset, and long thought to be the cortical correlate of the Orienting Reflex, our automatic attention-grabbing response to a novel stimulus. The Novelty P3 was the third P3 subcomponent discovered (after P3a and P3b) and appeared promising in its sensitivity to stimulus novelty, t...