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0000-0002-3997-3470
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Flinders University
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Monash University
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 20-04-2023
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190095611.013.52
Abstract: Ian McNiven recently argued that interpretive theoretical frameworks shaped by Indigenous worldviews offer the potential to enrich archaeological understandings of the past and inform archaeological practice in the present. In this chapter, the authors apply one of the core theoretical concepts McNiven identified—Indigenous experiences of encountering the past—to their work with Ngarrindjeri, Jawoyn, and Yanyuwa Aboriginal people. Through the lens of encountering the past, they focus on the notions of living landscapes, revelation by the ancestors, and ancestral remains as people, not objects. All three are underpinned by the concept of ancestors having and exerting agency that shapes how the ‘archaeological record’ is interpreted. In doing so, they are also contributing to research movements that seek to obtain interpretations of the past that are not only more closely aligned to the knowledge systems of the people who created the archaeological material and cultural landscapes but also grounded in emotional connections to people, place, and objects.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 06-09-2017
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190607357.013.55
Abstract: This chapter discusses the contribution of ethnography to the study of Australian rock art. With more than 100 years of ethnographic enquiry into rock art from across the country, valuable insights into the meaning, motives, function, and symbolism of images have been identified. However, with this information comes challenges with its use (and abuse), as well as the necessity to understand the cultural contexts of interpretation and meaning-making. This chapter explores the various ways Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders) engage with and describe their understandings of rock art in a variety of contexts. This review also highlights the complex nature of the interpretative process and the ethnographic gaze in which it is embedded. At its core, ethnographic approaches to Australian rock art reveal the multidimensional referential qualities of images found across the landscape.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 22-04-2022
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774322000129
Abstract: Depictions of mythical beings appear in many different forms of art world-wide, including rock art of various ages. In this paper we explore a particular type of imagery, back-to-back figures, consisting of two human-like figures or animals of the same species next to each other and facing in opposite directions. Some human-like doubles were joined at the back rather than side-by-side, but also face opposite directions. In this paper, we report on new research on rock art, bark paintings and recent paintings on paper and chart a 9000-year history of making aesthetically, symbolically and spiritually powerful back-to-back figures in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-07-2012
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 10-03-2021
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0248334
Abstract: The worldwide spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) since December 2019 has posed a severe threat to in iduals’ well-being. While the world at large is waiting that the released vaccines immunize most citizens, public health experts suggest that, in the meantime, it is only through behavior change that the spread of COVID-19 can be controlled. Importantly, the required behaviors are aimed not only at safeguarding one’s own health. Instead, in iduals are asked to adapt their behaviors to protect the community at large. This raises the question of which social concerns and moral principles make people willing to do so. We considered in 23 countries ( N = 6948) in iduals’ willingness to engage in prescribed and discretionary behaviors, as well as country-level and in idual-level factors that might drive such behavioral intentions. Results from multilevel multiple regressions, with country as the nesting variable, showed that publicized number of infections were not significantly related to in idual intentions to comply with the prescribed measures and intentions to engage in discretionary prosocial behaviors. Instead, psychological differences in terms of trust in government, citizens, and in particular toward science predicted in iduals’ behavioral intentions across countries. The more people endorsed moral principles of fairness and care (vs. loyalty and authority), the more they were inclined to report trust in science, which, in turn, statistically predicted prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions. Results have implications for the type of intervention and public communication strategies that should be most effective to induce the behavioral changes that are needed to control the COVID-19 outbreak.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2014
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