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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society | Archaeology | Other Studies in Human Society | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture language and history | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Aboriginal Studies | Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Impacts of Tourism | Social And Cultural Anthropology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Understanding Australia's Past | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare | Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | Socio-Cultural Issues in Tourism | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage | Tourism Infrastructure Development | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |
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Publications
An Ethnoarchaeology of Engagement Yanyuwa Places and the Lived Cultural Domain in Northern Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2010
To Cut Down the Dreaming: Epistemic Violence, Ambivalence and the Logic of Coloniality
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
A rare miniature and small-scale stencil assemblage from the Gulf of Carpentaria
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 26-05-2020
DOI: 10.15184/AQY.2020.48
Abstract: Recent survey in the Gulf of Carpentaria region of northern Australia has identified a unique assemblage of miniature and small-scale stencilled motifs depicting anthropomorphs, material culture, macropod tracks and linear designs. The unusual sizes and shapes of these motifs raise questions about the types of material used for the stencil templates. Drawing on ethnographic data and experimental archaeology, the authors argue that the motifs were created with a previously undocumented stencilling technique using miniature models sculpted from beeswax. The results suggest that beeswax and other malleable and adhesive resins may have played a more significant role in creating stencilled motifs than previously thought.
'Contact' Rock Art and the Hybrid Economy Model
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 29-03-2022
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774322000014
Abstract: Studies of introduced subject matter in rock-art assemblages typically focus on themes of cross-cultural interaction, change and continuity, power and resistance. However, the economic frameworks guiding or shaping the production of an assemblage have often been overlooked. In this paper we use a case study involving a recently recorded assemblage of introduced subject matter from Marra Country in northern Australia's southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region to explore their production using a hybrid economy framework. This framework attempts to understand the nature of the forces that shape people's engagement with country and subsequently how it is being symbolically marked as adjustments to country occur through colonization. We argue that embedding these motifs into a hybrid economy context anchored in the pastoral industry allows for a more nuanced approach to cross-cultural interaction studies and adds another layer to the story of Aboriginal place-marking in colonial contexts. This paper aims to go beyond simply identifying motifs thought to represent introduced subject matter, and the cross-cultural framework(s) guiding their interpretation, and instead to direct attention to the complex network of relations that potentially underpin the production of such motifs.
Ethnicity and Cultural Wounding: Ethnic Conflict, Loss of Home, and the Drive to Return
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2019
Keeping Company
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 21-09-2022
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780197607695.013.9
Abstract: This chapter considers the principle of “keeping company” as a praxis of companionship, rights and responsibility that defines many Indigenous people’s relationships to their Country, language, Law and other cultural expressions. Keeping company involves a relational complementarity, and invokes principles of the communal and interconnected, over the in idual or atomized visions of social and cultural life. This discussion is directly inspired by ethnographic insights gained in working with Yanyuwa, the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, Australia. Keeping company is one of the ways that Yanyuwa create relational links to one another, to their ancestors, to places, to their heritage, and to nonhuman species. By broadening the ontology of relating, keeping company is taken as the inspiration for reflection on a more expansive field of possibilities in how people interact with and care for their Country as replete with the legacy and influence of their ancestors and old people (a term given to both present day elders and deceased kin). This has bearing on the way that cultural expressions are understood and safeguarded as part of an everyday relational praxis that ensures Indigenous people’s connections to one another, as well as their Law and Country.
Introduction: The Scene for a Reflexive Practice
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Mobility of Mind: Can We Change Our Epistemic Habit Through Sustained Ethnographic Encounters?
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Indigeneity and the performance of corporeal masculinities in the Australian Football League
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Kincentric Ecology, Species Maintenance and the Relational Power of Place in Northern Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-10-2019
DOI: 10.1002/OCEA.5232
Interculturalism and Responsive Reflexivity in a Settler Colonial Context
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-03-2019
DOI: 10.3390/REL10030199
Abstract: This article explores interculturalism in Australia, a nation marked by the impact of coloniality and deep colonising. Fostering interculturalism—as a form of empathic understanding and being in good relations with difference—across Indigenous and non-Indigenous lived experiences has proven difficult in Australia. This paper offers a scoping of existing discourse on interculturalism, asking firstly, ‘what is interculturalism’, that is, what is beyond the rhetoric and policy speak? The second commitment is to examine the pressures that stymy the articulation of interculturalism as a broad-based project, and lastly the article strives to highlight possibilities for interculturalism through consideration of empathic understandings of sustainable futures and land security in Australia. Legislative land rights and land activism arranged around solidarity movements for sustainable futures are taken up as the two sites of analysis. In the first instance, a case is made for legislative land rights as a form of coloniality that maintains the centrality of state power, and in the second, land activism, as expressed in the c aigns of Seed, Australia’s first Indigenous youth-led climate network and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, are identified as sites for plurality and as staging grounds for intercultural praxis.
Reflexive Ethnographic Practice
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Cultural Wounding, Healing, and Emerging Ethnicities
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2014
Gender in landscape archaeology
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-06-2008
‘When a long way in a bark canoe becomes a quick trip in a boat’ relationships to sea country & changes to Yanyuwa watercraft
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
Nalangkulurru, the Spirit Beings, and the Black-Nosed Python: Ontological Self-Determination and Yanyuwa Law in Northern Australia's Gulf Country
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-11-2020
DOI: 10.1111/AMAN.13513
Abstract: We write from an ontological premise that there are other ways to know and understand the “archaeological record” and “rock art” that are devoid of Western ontology, and there have been for many millennia. In this article, we consider one specific Indigenous place and its associated visual elements, what might be commonly referred to as “rock art.” This place, Nalangkalurru, is replete with meaning, grounded in a well‐founded and understood logic and reason. Nalangkalurru belongs to the Yanyuwa people of the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region, northern Australia. By adopting methodological openness, we take a journey of steadied nondistraction oriented towards the Yanyuwa ontology that is in place. When viewing the visual elements of Nalangkalurru, which include Ancestral Beings that are visually present on the cave's large rock surface, Yanyuwa have resolutely declared that this “is not a painting.” We explore what this comment means and expand the discussion to consider the nature of rock art research, when “rock art” is not “rock art.” These insights inspire a reflective discussion on the ways Yanyuwa, and Indigenous ontologies more broadly, unsettle and aid the ontological turn. [ ontology, rock art, colonialism, Indigenous, Australia ]
Rock art as cultural expressions of social relationships and kinship
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 06-03-2017
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190607357.013.10
Abstract: This chapter examines rock art as cultural expressions of social relationships and kinship. More specifically, it considers the type(s) of relationships that exist or emerge in Indigenous contexts and how appreciation of these relationships can elucidate the meaning, symbolism, and significance of rock art. It first explores the relational contexts of rock art by citing ex les involving sorcery before discussing the social embeddedness of rock art and the network of relationships that rock art operates within. It then analyzes the regional relatedness and social connectedness of rock art and shows that the breadth of relationships into which rock art is embedded involves ontology and epistemology. The chapter uses a series of case studies drawn primarily from rock art research with Yanyuwa, a maritime-oriented Indigenous language group in northern Australia’s southwest Gulf country, supplemented with ex les from the American Southwest and other areas within Australia.
Cultural Wounding and Healing: Change as Ongoing Cultural Production in a Remote Indigenous Australian Community
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date: 2016
A Place of Substance: Stories of Indigenous Place Meaning in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 09-2018
DOI: 10.1086/698697
Indigenous Law and the Politics of Kincentricity and Orality
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
From Sorcery to Laboratory: Pandemics and Yanyuwa Experiences of Viral Vulnerability
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2021
DOI: 10.1002/OCEA.5294
Intimacy and Distance: Indigenous Relationships to Country in Northern Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-10-2018
Present Memories: Indigenous Memory Construct and Cross-Generational Knowledge Exchange in Northern Australia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2012
Ethnicity, cultural wounding and the 'healing project': What happens when the wounded survive?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-03-2014
Abstract: In this paper, I introduce the term ‘cultural wounding’ as central to an analysis of ethnicity and ethnic identities that have experienced trauma through inter-ethnic conflict. Cultural wounding speaks to rupture and assault in a physical, emotional, spiritual and ideological sense. By establishing the definitional character of cultural wounding, I present a discussion of the ‘wounds’ that result from the deliberate targeting of ethnic groups in c aigns of violence and conflict. I focus the attention here on instances of wounding and healing within historical and contemporary contexts of Indigenous Australia. The primary aim here is to propose a framework for understanding wounding, healing and transformation as experienced by ethnic groups that undergo change brought about by conflict. Wounding, healing and transformation are steps in the journey to not only surviving but also thriving along ethnic lines in the aftermath or amidst moments of conflict and challenge. Drawing on instances of cultural wounding and the healing project amongst Indigenous groups in Australia, I propose a discourse that articulates what happens when the wounded survive, examining the link between wounding and healing, action and projection.
'He painted the law': William Westall, 'stone monuments' and remembrance of things past in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2011
Abstract: Early colonial expeditions were responsible for the documentation of the Australian landscape, fauna, flora and the indigenous owners of the land. Today, these documentations remain: locked in archives and hanging on the walls of museums. Visual representations reflect artistic traditions of the time and the curiosities of colonial administrations. In this article, the authors discuss a painting by the artist William Westall, who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his circumnavigation of Australia from 1802. Westall’s paintings depict objects of indigenous Australian material culture that hold significance for the Yanyuwa, indigenous owners of land and sea throughout the Sir Edward Pellew Islands, Australia. These objects are of the highest value to the Yanyuwa and are linked to ceremonial practices no longer performed. By direct reference to Westall’s painting and Yanyuwa ethnography, the authors examine how people conceive of this material culture as something powerful as well as the nature of re-engagements that result from triggers to memory.
Violence in place, cultural and environmental wounding: Cultural and environmental wounding
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-11-2016
Returning to that which was never lost: Indigenous Australian saltwater identities, a history of land claims and the paradox of return
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-11-2018
The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-12-2016
Negotiating Yanyuwa Rock Art Relational and Affectual Experiences in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 02-2016
DOI: 10.1086/684683
Ethnicity and Cultural Wounding: Ethnic Conflict, Loss of Home, and the Drive to Return
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2019
A lesson in time: Yanyuwa ontologies and meaning in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 23-02-2021
Sitting in the gap: ethnoarchaeology, rock art and methodological openness
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-07-2016
Order and disorder: Indigenous Australian cultural heritages and the case of settler-colonial ambivalence
Publisher: UCL Press
Date: 18-02-2020
Communicative Pathways
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-07-2023
This is Our Story: Yanyuwa Experiences of a Pandemic
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2020
DOI: 10.1002/OCEA.5263
‘You whitefellas pull it all apart’: epistemic learnings in exploring landscape
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-09-2018
Sea Country: Plurality and knowledge of saltwater territories in Indigenous Australian contexts
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-07-2023
DOI: 10.1111/GEOJ.12466
Abstract: There are distinct bodies of cultural knowledge attached to the sea. In this paper we orient the focus towards the nature and extent of cultural framings of sea territories, as inclusive of submerged landscapes, for Indigenous maritime peoples in northern Australia. This approach is distinguished by a pluralist methodology and reorients the primal focus of a human geography and broader geographical scholarship concerning submerged landscapes to begin with an Indigenous perspective. Engaging ethnographic accounts of Indigenous Australian knowledges of Sea Country, as inclusive of ancient pre‐inundation landscapes that lie out‐of‐sight on Australia's continental shelves, highlights the potential for a more expansive vision of human connections to the past and present continental landmass of Australia. Indigenous oral traditions, Dreaming Ancestor narratives and songlines provide extensive detail to assist in understanding these parts of the greater Australian landmass and in this paper are brought into relation with recent sea floor mapping efforts which operate to draw back the water and reveal commensurable geographies upon which to envision possibilities for socialised realms of human emplacement. Both bodies of knowledge generate information of submerged landscapes that call for an expansion of thinking on where the land ends and the sea begins and how submerged terrestrial landscapes are understood across cultures as part of human geography. The approach outlined here calls for a habit of bringing principled systems of understanding to stand together as part of an explanatory schema for a world populated by and yet differentially known by people.
Homeland Emotion: An Emotional Geography of Heritage and Homeland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2009
The Cambridge Legal History of Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 04-08-2022
Abstract: Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters address three major themes: the development of Australian settler law in the shadow of the British Empire the interaction between settler law and First Nations people and the possibility of meaningful encounter between First laws and settler legal regimes in Australia. Several chapters explore the limited space provided by Australian settler law for respectful encounters, particularly in light of the High Court's particular concerns about the fragility of Australian sovereignty. Tracing the development of a uniquely Australian law and the various contexts that shaped it, this volume is concerned with the complexity, plurality, and ambiguity of Australia's legal history.
'Too strong to ever not be there': Place names and emotional geographies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2009
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