Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220100795

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE220100795

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Message sticks: Long-distance communication in Indigenous Australia. Message sticks are marked wooden objects that were once used throughout Indigenous Australia to convey important information between communities. The intended outcome of this project is to answer a central question: What role did message sticks play in Indigenous long-distance communication? Drawing on archival evidence and original fieldwork in the Top End, the project aims to be the first empirically grounded study of message sticks as a practice. The project expects to define message sticks as a class of material culture, explain their communicative dynamics, generate new cross-cultural insights, and strengthen collaborations between research institutions, museums and Indigenous cultural organisations.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2022

End Date: 31-12-2027

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $412,606.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistic Anthropology | Anthropology | Museum Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Visual Communication | Communication Across Languages and Culture |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems | Anthropology | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Linguistic Anthropology | Museum Studies | Understanding Australia's Past | Visual Communication

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