Barwick, Diane Elizabeth (1938 - 1986)

Diane E. Barwick was born in Canada in 1938. She arrived in Australia in 1960, and received her doctoral degree from the Australian National University, Canberra. Her work on the history of Aboriginal communities in Victoria (particularly Coranderrk, Framlingham and Lake Tyers) resulted in a number of publications, including her book Rebellion at Coranderrk, published posthumously in 1998. She contributed many articles, book chapters, pamphlets, manuscripts and photographs to Aboriginal scholarship, and was the co-founder of the journal Aboriginal History, which she also edited from 1978 to 1982. She was also actively involved in a number of Aboriginal issues, and was on the Aboriginal Treaty Committee.

Throughout her career, she worked to make history more accessible to Aboriginal people through genealogies and biographies. In 1984 she published a journal article, "Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans, 1835-1904", which was a major reference for the compilation of a large Aboriginal biographical index at the AIATSIS. Her work was stopped short by her death in 1986.

Books

• Barwick, Diane, Rebellion at Coranderrk, Aboriginal History Inc, Canberra, 1998. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

• Barwick, Diane, 'Outsiders: Aboriginal women', in Rigg, J. (ed.), In her own right: women in Australia, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 85-97. [ Details... ]
• Barwick, Diane, 'And the lubras are ladies now', in Gale, Faye (ed.), Woman's role in Aboriginal society, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1974, pp. 51-63. [ Details... ]
• Barwick, Diane, 'Aborigines of Victoria', in Keen, Ian (ed.), Being Black, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1988, pp. 27-32. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• 'Diane Elizabeth Barwick 1938-1986: a bibliography', Aboriginal History, vol. 12, no. 1-2, 1988, pp. 2-6. [ Details... ]
• Barwick, Diane, 'Aboriginal women', Aboriginal News, vol. 1, no. 12 (April), 1975, pp. 13-15. [ Details... ]
• Barwick, Diane, 'Mapping the past: an atlas of Victorian clans 1835-1904, Part 1.', Aboriginal History, vol. 8, no. 1/2, 1984, pp. 100-131. [ Details... ]
• Kijas, Johanna, 'Diane Barwick: the influential outsider', The Olive Pink Society Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 2, 1992, pp. 5-13. [ Details... ]
• Kijas, Johanna, 'An 'unfashionable concern with the past': the historical anthropology of Diane Barwick', Australian Aboriginal History, no. 1, 1997, pp. 48-60. [ Details... ]

See also

• Horton, David (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, Canberra, 1994, 2 v. (xxxiii, 1340 p.) pp. [ Details... ]