Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450850

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0450850

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Time and timelessness in Aboriginal societies as exemplified in Ngarinyin body-imagery. My project is an investigation of northern Kimberley trading practices, arguing against some pervasive views in the Aboriginalist literature which cast Aboriginal people and cultures as emphasising timelessness and de-emphasising human creativity. Kimberley trading/sharing practices, I suggest, show that exchanges (at various levels of formality) between groups and individuals are locally experienced as an active and ongoing participation in the creation of the bodies of kin and of the country itself. This is done in a way which actively participates in, rather than merely reproduces, the creative travels of the first ancestral beings. Phenomenology and psychoanalysis theoretically inform my approach.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $213,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Aboriginal Studies | Anthropology | Social And Community Psychology | Social And Cultural Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Studies in human society | Land and water management |

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