Book reviews

Shahrgara'i va Shahrnishini dar Iran (bih Inzimam‐i Muqic‐iyyat va Naqsh‐i Tehran). By Mehdi Amani. Tehran: University of Tehran, Institute for Social Studies and Research, 1350/1971. 80 pp. No price indicated.

Migration in Iran: A Quantitative Approach. By Mohammad Hemmasi. Shiraz: Pahlavi University Publications #48, 1974. 144 pp. 150R1s.

The Origins of the ?afawids: ?i^cism, ?ūfism, and the Gulat. By Michel M. Mazzaoui. Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag, 1972. viii + 85 pp. DM 28.00.

Social and Cultural Selections From Contemporary Persian. With notes, exercises, and an alphabetical word list by Michel M. Mazzaoui and William G. Millward. Delmar New York: Caravan Books, 1973. xi + 128 pp. $7.50.     

Australiana

Robert Cooksey (ed.), The Great Depression in Australia, Labour History, 17, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Canberra, 1970, pp. 186, $2.50 ($1.50 to members).

Bob Bottom, Behind the Barrier, Gareth Powell Associates, Sydney, n.d. (1970?), $2.50.

B. C. Fitzgerald (ed.), Background to Politics: a sourcebook of major documents and statements which affect the course of Australian politics, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 130, $2.75.

Athol Jones, ABC of Politics, Cassell Australia, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 280, $3.50.

D. M. Lamberton, Science, Technology, and the Australian Economy, Tudor Press, Sydney, 1970, pp. 286 + iii, $2.25.

Hans Mol, Christianity in Chains: A Sociologist's Interpretation of the Churches’ Dilemma in a Secular World, Nelson (Australia), Melbourne, 1969, pp. 120, $1.95.

Grey Hodnett and Peter J. Potichnyj, The Ukraine and the Czechoslovak Crisis, Occasional Paper No. 6, Department of Political Science, A.N.U.‐I.A.S., A.N.U. Press, Canberra, 1970, pp. 154+ v, $1.50.

Charles Osborne (ed.), Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific: A Handbook, Anthony Blond, London, 1970, pp. 580+ xi, $15.40.

B. A. Santamaria, The Defence of Australia, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 147, $1.85.

R. J. W. Selleck (ed), Melbourne Studies in Education, 1970, Melbourne University Press, 1970, pp. 264 + vii, $6.75.

Australian Association of Adult Education, The Political Education of Australians, A.A.A.E., Canberra, 1969, pp. 92 + xii, $1.00.

Paul Hasluck, Black Australians: A Survey of Native Policy in Western Australia, 1829–1897, Melbourne University Press, 1970, pp. 229, $6.75.

Richard P. Davis, State Aid and Tasmanian Politics, 1868–1920, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1969, pp. 135 + iv. From University Bookshop, Hobart, $2.65 ($2.75 overseas) posted.

Joseph Martin, A Guide to Economic Policy in Australia, West Publishing Corporation, Sydney, 1969, pp. 164 + xi, $2.50.

George Mitchell, Growers in Action: Official History of the Victorian Wheat and Wool‐growers’ Association, 1927–1968, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 356 + vi, $5.50.

L. E. Fredman, The Australian Ballot: Story of an American Reform, Michigan State University Press, Lansing, 1968, pp. 150 + xii, $U.S.5.75.

Bruce Sutherland, Australiana in the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Bibliographical Series No. 1, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, University Park, Penn., 1969, pp. 391 + x, n.p.

Sidney Sax (ed.), The Aged in Australian Society, Angus and Robertson in association with ANZAAS, Sydney, 1970, pp. 137, n.p.

D. C. Thomson (ed.), Industrial Relations in the I970's, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1970, pp. 81 + vii, $2.85.

N. E. Lauritz, The Vietnam Moratorium, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 40, 50c.

Sean Glynn, Urbanisation in Australian History, 1788–1900, Nelson, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 67, 95c.

R. L. Wettenhall, The Iron Road and the State: W. M. Acworth as Scholar, Critic and Reformer, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1970, pp. 69 + iii, $1 plus postage, from Univ. of Tas. Bookroom.

T. B. Millar, Soviet Policies in the Indian Ocean Area, Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence, 7, A.N.U. Press, Canberra, 1970, pp. 22, 90c.

Malcolm Mackerras (ed.), The State of Play, Politics Reference Monograph 1 and 2.APSA, Sydney, 1970, pp. 8; 20c (posted) No. 1, 15c No. 2, from Mr. Ken Chan, Dept. of Govt., Univ. of Sydney.

The latest University Studies in History, 1969, G. C. Bolton and J. A. Merritt (eds.), University of W.A. Press, pp. 94, $1.05     

Managing the Discourse of Resource Management: the Case of Sasi from ‘Southeast’ Maluku,Indonesia

Co-management of protected areas and renewable resources, with its focus upon local community involvement, is often proposed as some form of ‘magic cure’ for environmental ailments and social injustices. Notwithstanding the inherent romanticism of some of the proponents of management from ‘the bottom up’, there is a strong tendency to view this approach in overly utilitarian, ahistorical and often essentialist terms. In the process, the cultural, historical and political specificities and effects of this discourse are either neutralised or totally disregarded. While a number of authors have identified some of the limitations and problems associated with the implementation of community-based, co-management programmes, there is still a general reluctance to question the logic which informs and is constitutive of this discourse. In this paper, I explore the discourse of resource management in relation to the varied practices and perceptions associated with and identified as sasi. This discussion of sasi focuses upon the island of Luang, and the 1800 or so people who inhabit this island located in the southern waters of the Banda sea. The environmental and economic circumstances of Luang make it an ideal context for the investigation of ‘community-based, marine resource management’ strategies. However, while this context seems to comply with some of the truths produced by the discourse of resource management, in this paper I argue that the very canons of this discourse are placed at risk through people's enactment of their own projects and the expression of their own representations.     

The Geographer as Itinerant: Peter Scott in Flight, 1952–1996

Mobility is the keystone of the ‘new’ regional geography. Attention is drawn to the outpouring of work on travellers throughout history. Surprisingly, little mention is made of geographers who have crossed borders, been immigrants and have engaged in writing about movement. As is evident from Peter Scott's pocket log diary of air travel and airports, there is scope for a study of the whole range of spatial practices of individual geographers through an examination of maps, diaries, stories, books and television programs. As all geographers are travellers, it is perhaps more appropriate to create the spirit of the time so that we can position ourselves in the bigger picture and enjoy our private reveries. This paper, therefore, seeks to recreate the air transport geography of the mid-1960s and to list key changes over the following thirty years, before examining air transport geography in the mid-1990s. Attention is paid to advertising signs and images of each period.     

Mabo and Museums: ‘The Indigenous (Re)Appropriation of Indigenous Things’

In this paper I extend upon the categories of appropriation identified by Beings, land and people. Using the work of Nancy Munn (1984) and Annette Weiner (1992), I argue that the relationship between objects, place, Beings and people is of a consubstantial and inalienable nature. Following on from this argument, I propose that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and interests in land or waters, as defined by the recent Native Title legislation, cannot be alienated from rights and interests in other cultural possessions. These other cultural forms include tjurunga, as well as songs, ceremonies and paintings. As this suggests, in the post-Mabo landscape museums represent important collecting sites for indigenous people; a somewhat different identity to the former status of museums as sites of indigenous collections.