Browsing Migration of Cultures Symposium, 10-13 April 2006 by Issue Date
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Authenticity of product: Italian heritage and branding in the Australian wine industry. [abstract].
(2006)This paper will discuss the use of cultural markers in branding and marketing techniques of Italian Australian winemakers. A survey of these brands carried out by the author found that Italian wine makers in Australia ... -
Endogamy and exogamy among post-war Calabria-born women in South Australia. [abstract].
(2006)This paper analyses the results of Giulia Ciccone's study of single Calabria-born women who married after their arrival in South Australia. In order to look at their marriage patterns Ciccone sifted through the marriage ... -
Community and Church: the Italian "problem" in Australia during the inter-war years. [abstract].
(2006)The mass migration of Italians to Anglo-Saxon countries, such as the USA and Australia, caused a great amount of discontent in religious circles, so much so that Italian migrants have been considered a religious “problem”. ... -
More than a sea change? Post-World War II French migration to South Australia. [abstract].
(2006)The proposed paper seeks to examine the contextual reasons as well as the personal motivations that spurred the French to migrate and settle in South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. This study constitutes the second stage ... -
Migration Beyond the Second Generation: Ancestry and Identity in Historical and Fictional Narratives. [abstract].
(2006)This paper is an exploration of ancestry and cultural identity in texts which fall into various genres, including history and fiction. The main focus will be on the Irish-Australian authors Thomas Keneally and Christopher ... -
Wog boy moves: Greek-Australian performance and the transnational masculine, 1955-2000. [abstract].
(2006)Drawing on archival research into Australian theatre history, this illustrated paper explores relations between Australian imaginings of ancient Greek theatre and a culture’s erotic investment in the transnational masculinity ... -
The Irish in South Australia: names and naming. [abstract].
(2006)In celebrating its centennial in an Irish way, despite having little Irish background, The Dublin Progress Association chose to exploit what Pierre Bourdieu would call the ‘economic’, ‘cultural’ and ‘social capital’ ... -
Adopting and adapting: Italian settlement in South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. [abstract].
(2006)The biggest influx of Italians to Australia, including South Australia, occurred during the 1950s and 1960s as a result of the Australian government’s post-war immigration programme, which attempted to meet the perceived ... -
Values and traditions of South Australian Italian migrants from Caulonia (Calabria). [abstract].
(2006)To what extent do South Australian Italian migrants from Caulonia (Calabria) maintain their cultural practices and traditions in everyday life in Adelaide, Australia? This is one of the main questions that this paper aims ... -
World War I Memorials in the Barossa: Markers of Identity Shift and Dissonance. [abstract].
(2006)In South Australia’s Barossa Valley, war memorials link regional identity and national politics as well as commemorating the dead. Settled by German Lutherans in the 1840s, the Barossa today is a close knit regional ... -
"Unrecorded Lives": Oral Narratives of a Group of First-Generation Campanian Women Residing in Adelaide, South Australia. [abstract].
(2006)This paper will focus on issues of identity and cultural maintenance, as evidenced by the oral testimonies of a generational cohort who were born in the region of Campania in Southern Italy and who emigrated to Australia ... -
"Materialising" a Diasporic Irish Family on the Frontier of S.E. SA (1852-1860). [abstract].
(2006)This paper interrogates the idea of using fiction to re-imagine local myth. Can the novelist history-writer seeking to construct a narrative from the occluded stories of an 1850s Irish settler family, give just consideration ...