Associate Professor Diana Young
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Social Science
Publications
Books
Young, Diana (2017). Solomon Islands: re-enchantment and the colonial shadow. Brisbane, Australia: Anthropology Museum, The University of Queensland.
Young, Diana (2014). Written on the body. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Hamby, Louise and Young, Diana (2001). Art on a string: Aboriginal threaded objects from the Central Desert and Arnhem Land. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Object-Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Australian National University.
Book Chapters
Young, Diana J.B . (2019). The light is looking at us. James Turrell - night life. (pp. 53-63) edited by Rebecca Mutch. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: QAGOMA.
Young, Diana (2018). Colour as the edge of the body: colours as space-time in the east of the Western Desert. Rematerializing colour: from concept to substance. (pp. 145-164) edited by Diana Young. Wantage, United Kingdom: Sean Kingston Publishing.
Young, Diana (2018). Coloring cars: customising motor vehicles in the east of the Australian Western Desert. Design anthropology: object cultures in transition. (pp. 147-159) edited by Alison J. Clarke. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781474259071.ch-010
Young, Diana J. B. (2018). Colour palettes and beauty. Anthropology and Beauty: From Aesthetics to Creativity. (pp. 148-165) edited by Stephanie Bunn. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315681566
Young, Diana (2018). The Anthropologist. Making Faces - A Jewellery Playbook. (pp. 33-33) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Manon van Kouswijk.
Young, Diana (2018). Color. International encyclopedia of anthropology. (pp. 330-360) edited by Hilary Callan. New Jersey, United States: John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2210
Young, Diana (2018). Introduction. Rematerializing colour: from concept to substance. (pp. 1-21) edited by Diana Young. Wantage, United Kingdom: Sean Kingston Publishing.
Young, Diana (2017). On revealing and concealing. Songlines: tracking the seven sisters. (pp. 72-75) edited by Margo Neale. Canberra, ACT, Australia: National Museum of Australia Press.
Young, Diana (2017). Introduction. Solomon Islands: re-enchantment and the colonial shadow. (pp. 1-7) Brisbane, Australia: Anthropology Museum, The University of Queensland.
Young, Diana (2015). Introduction. Wild Australia. Meston's Wild Australia 1892-93. (pp. 2-3) edited by Michael Aird, Mandana Mapar and Paul Memmott. Brisbane, Australia: Anthropology Museum, The University of Queensland.
Young, Diana (2014). How did we get here?. Strong Women Strong Painting Strong Culture. (pp. 7-12) edited by Diana Young. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Young, Diana (2014). The domestication of things. Written on the body. (pp. 1-3) edited by Diana Young. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Young, Diana (2013). Hector Burton Tjupuru. My Country. NEWv: selected recent acquisitions 2011-2013. (pp. 34-35) edited by Ian Were. Brisbane, Australia: UQ Art Museum.
Young, Diana (2012). Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri; rock holes and country near the Olgas’. New, v. 2: selected recent acquisitions, 2009-2011. (pp. 86-86) edited by Ian Were. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Young, Diana (2011). Colouring cars: Customising motor vehicles in the East of the Australian Western Desert. Design anthropology: Object culture in the 21st century. (pp. 117-129) edited by Alison J. Clark. Wien, Austria ; New York, U.S.A.: Springer.
Young, Diana (2010). Dressing the body in the Western Desert, Australia. Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. (pp. 37-41) edited by Joanne Eicher. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg. doi: 10.2752/BEWDF/EDch7007
Young, Diana (2010). Dingo scalping and the frontier economy in the north west of South Australia. Indigenous participation in Australian economies. (pp. 91-107) edited by Ian Keen. Australia: ANU E-Press.
Young, Diana (2006). The colours of things. The handbook of material culture. (pp. 173-185) edited by Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Kuechler, Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer. London: Sage Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781848607972.n12
Young, Diana (2001). The life and death of cars. Private cars on the Pitjantjatjara Lands, South Australia. Car cultures. (pp. 35-59) edited by Daniel Miller. London: Berg Publishers.
Young, Diana (1998). Punu metaphors and markets- wood carving in the Ernabella area. Warka iritita munu Kuwari kutu. Work from the past and the present: a celebration of Fifty years of Ernabella Arts. (pp. 38-43) Ernabella, SA, Australia: Ernabella Arts .
Journal Articles
Young, Diana (2023). Water as Country on the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia. Oceania, 93 (3), 246-258. doi: 10.1002/ocea.5376
Young, Diana (2023). Tiwi Textiles: Design, Making, Process by Diana Wood Conroy with Bede Tungutalum, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2022, 360 pp., $120 (paperback), ISBN 9781743328637. Journal of Australian Studies, 47 (4), 801-802. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2270335
Young, Diana J. B. (2022). What do museum objects want? Re‐thinking photographic conventions in ethnographic museums. Visual Anthropology Review, 38 (1), 60-84. doi: 10.1111/var.12265
Young, Diana (2020). In the red: substances and materials in the Australian Western Desert. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 26 (2), 269-283. doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.13248
Young, Diana J. B. (2017). Winifred Hilliard and the cultural brokerage of the Ernabella craft room. Aboriginal History, 41, 71-94. doi: 10.22459/AH.41.2017.04
Young, Diana (2017). Focus on the exhibition. Oceanic Arts Society, 22 (1), 7-8.
Young, Diana (2011). Mutable things: colours as material practice in the north west of South Australia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17 (2), 356-376. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01684.x
Young, Diana (2011). Australia: William Blandowski's illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia by AllenHarry (Ed.) Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2010, x + 176pp., ISBN 978 0 85575 713 7. The Australian Journal of Indigneous Education, 40 (1), 125-126. doi: 10.1017/S1326011100000181
Young, Diana (2006). On materiality - a review of two Australian exhibitions. Museum Anthropology, 29 (2), 133-139. doi: 10.1525/mua.2006.29.2.133
Young, Diana (2006). Water as country in the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands South Australia. World Views: Environment, Culture and Religion, 10 (2), 239-259. doi: 10.1163/156853506777965839
Young, Diana (2005). The smell of greenness: cultural synaesthesia in the Western Desert. Etnofoor, 18 (1), 61-77.
Young, Diana (2004). Review of Theories, technologies, instrumentalities of color: anthropological and historiographic perspectives by Barbara Saunders & Jaap van Brakel. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 10 (3), 707-708. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2004.00208.x
Young, Diana (2004). The material value of colour: The estate agent's tale. Home Cultures, 1 (1), 5-22. doi: 10.2752/174063104778053572
Research Report
Creative Works
Young, Diana (2019). On some street ecologies. Berlin, Germany: CARMAH Humboldt University.
Young, Diana (2016). Solomon Islands: re-enchantment and the colonial shadow. Brisbane, Australia:
Young, Diana (2015). Snake relations. Brisbane, Australia:
Watson, Judy and Young, Diana (2014). Written on the body. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Young, Diana, Willcock, Jane and Strelan, Charla (2014). Written on the body and Gapuwiyak Calling opening event and curator talks. UQ Anthropology Museum:
Hamby, Louise and Young, Diana (2013). Women with clever hands past and present. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Gillespie, Kirsty, Lihir Cultural Heritage Association and Young, Diana (2013). Musical landscapes of Lihir. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Young, Diana (2012). What do objects want?. Brisbane, QLD, Australia:
Young, Diana (2012). In the red, on the vibrancy of things. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Young, Diana (2010). The social life of things: UQ centenary exhibition. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Young, Diana (2010). Double Up: Pasifika Treasure in the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum. St Lucia, Qld, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Young, Diana and Willcock, Jane (2010). Double up: Pasifika treasure in The University of Queensland, Anthropology Museum. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
Young, Diana (2009). Nyukana Baker: Retrospective. Adelaide, Australia: JamFactory Gallery.
Hamby, Louise and Young, Diana (2001). Art on a String. Aboriginal Threaded objects from the central desert and Arnhem Land. Sydney, Australia: Object-Australian Centre for Craft and Design.
Young, Diana and Ernabella Arts artists (1998). Warka Irititja munu Kuwari kutu. Work from the past and the present. A celebration of Fifty Years of Ernabella Arts. Tandanya Cultural centre Adelaide:
Data Collections
Young, Diana and Hardjo, Camella (2016). In the red. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.569
Young, Diana and Hardjo, Camella (2013). Anthropology Museum Digital Collection. The University of Queensland. (Collection) doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.25