Footprints, Imprints: Seeing Environmentalist and Buddhist Marie Bytes as an Eastern Australian

Cadzow, AJ

Footprints, Imprints: Seeing Environmentalist and Buddhist Marie Bytes as an Eastern Australian

Cadzow, AJ

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Publisher:: UTS
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Portal, Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2006, 4 (1), pp. 1 - 24
Issue Date:: 2006-01

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dc.contributor.author	Cadzow, AJ	en_US
dc.date.issued	2006-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Portal, Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2006, 4 (1), pp. 1 - 24	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1449-2490	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1548
dc.description.abstract	This paper is a response to a challenge posed to me: to find ways of thinking of Australia as Asian, rather than an island culture tenaciously clinging to British ancestry and identification despite indigenous and Eastern influences. What different understandings of Australian lives and subjectivities might emerge when Australian lives are seen as Asian also? It seemed appropriate to undertake this experiment in thinking within the context of the life story of a figure who challenged easy definitions, spent much of her life between Asia and Australia and belongs to the histories of many places in the region and relationships between them. This paper uses historical, cultural and textual analysis to explore the life of Marie Byles, a significant conservationist and Buddhist, as simultaneously Eastern1 and Australian through her travel writing, her interpretations of Buddhist texts for English reading audiences, and her environmentalism.	en_US
dc.publisher	UTS	en_US
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dc.title	Footprints, Imprints: Seeing Environmentalist and Buddhist Marie Bytes as an Eastern Australian	en_US
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Abstract:

This paper is a response to a challenge posed to me: to find ways of thinking of Australia as Asian, rather than an island culture tenaciously clinging to British ancestry and identification despite indigenous and Eastern influences. What different understandings of Australian lives and subjectivities might emerge when Australian lives are seen as Asian also? It seemed appropriate to undertake this experiment in thinking within the context of the life story of a figure who challenged easy definitions, spent much of her life between Asia and Australia and belongs to the histories of many places in the region and relationships between them. This paper uses historical, cultural and textual analysis to explore the life of Marie Byles, a significant conservationist and Buddhist, as simultaneously Eastern1 and Australian through her travel writing, her interpretations of Buddhist texts for English reading audiences, and her environmentalism.

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