David Eastburn : [121]
Dr David Eastburn is a social-ecological systems geographer who has worked closely with rural communities in Australia and Papua New Guinea for almost five decades in the areas of education, communication, community capacity realization and social-ecological resilience.
Much of his career has involved working with communities during periods of change, including the transition of Papua New Guinea to political Independence (1969-1981); helping rural children to affirm identities and consider alternative futures (Commonwealth Schools Commission Country Areas Program 1982-1984) and the promotion of a government-community ‘partnership’ to manage the million square kilometre Murray-Darling Basin as an integrated social-ecological system (River Murray/ Murray-Darling Basin Commissions 1984-1998). His career has also included an 18-year association with the water industry and river ecology such as the development of an agri-ecological land-use plan for the strategic lower Murrumbidgee floodplain bioregion (Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority 2006-2007). His current work involves cooperatively identifying under-recognised local natural/ecological, cultural, social and individual human assets and utilizing/celebrating them to assist rural communities to realize their capacities for more resilient futures.
He studied at the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) and was associated with Papua New Guinea from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. For a decade he worked as a high school teacher in the Southern Highlands and New Ireland. This included being responsible for establishing Koroba High School ‘from the ground up’, being a member of the national secondary Social Science syllabus review panel, and establishing a provincial museum at Mendi. He also pioneered trekking tours through isolated parts of the Southern Highlands, Hela, Western and Sandaun provinces and was involved in documentary film-making.
His photographs have been widely published in Papua New Guinea, and overseas. He was a regular contributor to Air Niugini’s in-flight magazine, Paradise. He produced booklets on the Foi, Hewa and Huli peoples for the National Cultural Council’s series People of Papua New Guinea, and also produced a photographic booklet on the Southern Highlands. His photographs have appeared on the covers of industry magazines, the PNG Philatelic Bureau’s annual stamp pack, on calendars and postcards, and in international art books.
Map of geological and geographic details of Febi territory.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Date Published | - |
Date Created | 1972 |
Map of geological and geographic details of Febi territory.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | 1972 |
Kensaka, a Bogaia man originally from the Bulago Valley, was responsible for the operation and maintenance of power generators to supply electricity to Koroba Station in the 1970s and 1980s.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Jun 1980 |
Kensaka, a Bogaia man originally from the Bulago Valley, was responsible for the operation and maintenance of power generators to supply electricity to Koroba Station in the 1970s and 1980s.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Jun 1980 |
Kensaka, a Bogaia man originally from the Bulago Valley, was responsible for the operation and maintenance of power generators to supply electricity to Koroba Station in the 1970s and 1980s.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Jun 1980 |
John Wabi Sala and others with albums of prints of Febi people taken by David Eastburn in 1979-80.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | 14 Jan 2008 |
A small band of Febi youths in ceremonial dress at the celebration of district cultures at Koroba Provincial High School in 1980.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Portrait of a Febi boy who attended the end of year sing sing at Koroba Provincial High School in 1980 - a celebration of the cultural diversity of the district.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Portrait of a Febi youth with a distinctive face paint pattern of red and yellow ochre over the usual black/ charcoal background colour.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Portrait of a Febi elder with a nose-piece made from a cassowary leg-bone.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
A Febi elder wearing the black body paint and cassowary feather headdress of a member of a raiding party
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Portrait of the first Febi woman to travel beyond her territory to the Highlands
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Tapa cloth head-cape designs
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Tapa cloth head-cape designs
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Febi wearing brilliant yellow and black feather pendant made from the Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise (Seleucides rnelanoleuca), which is worn in the middle of the back.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Febi youth in ceremonial dress preparing to participate in the end-of-year cultural activities at Koroba Provincial High School.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Febi youth in ceremonial dress preparing to participate in the end-of-year cultural activities at Koroba Provincial High School.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Febi youth in ceremonial dress preparing to participate in the end-of-year cultural activities at Koroba Provincial High School.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Elaborately dressed Febi drummers with intricate designs painted on their bodies prepare to participate in the end-of-year cultural activities at Koroba Provincial High School.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
Elaborately dressed Febi drummers with intricate designs painted on their bodies prepare to participate in the end-of-year cultural activities at Koroba Provincial High School.
Author(s) | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- |
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Type | Image |
Date Published | - |
Date Created | Dec 1980 |
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