Our Mob Served: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories of War and Defending Australia

Description

Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war time and defence service, told through the vivid oral histories and treasured family images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This unique book shares lively and compelling stories of war, defence service and the impact on individuals, families and communities, sometimes for the first time. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have not forgotten their involvement in the national histories of war and service.

Mary Anne Jebb joined AIATSIS in 2014 as a Research Fellow. She is a historian whose PhD integrated oral historical and ethnographic research methods with written documentary textual analysis to uncover histories of a region of Australia where few people recorded their experiences in writing. It was published as Blood, Sweat and Welfare in 2002, for which it received the Keith Hancock History Award. Mary Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in history from Murdoch University, and a PhD in History from Murdoch University. She has held academic lecturing and research positions at Murdoch University, Notre Dame (Fremantle), the University of Western Australia and the Australian National University, with many years living and working in remote regions of Western Australia. Her research creates contemporary historical recordings and products for preservation with AIATSIS, as well as drawing on AIATSIS heritage collections for collaborative history productions. She has a particular interest in concepts of curating your own history and evaluating the impacts of digital history technologies like sound recordings, film, photographs, exhibitions and web based archives on Indigenous peoples' histories.