Fieldnotes & Footnotes: Congratulations to Traditional Owners of...
Jeffrey Lee and Traditional Owners of Koongarra and surrounds have shown such integrity and strength in their collective struggle to protect their Country. Congratulations and much respect –...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Field notebook excerpt: a day of particular import
The image above is from one of my field notebooks. It’s a poem I scrawled on a Frida Kahlo sticky-note while flying in a little Cessna, from camp to a nearby mining town, on the day Kevin Rudd …...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Ethnographic notes on the Yolŋu cultural self
I thought to share a few notes from the second chapter of my thesis. I hope they make sense out of context. Forewith: In the Yolŋu case, the cultural self, as a social person and a moral …...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Quotations of Note: Geoffrey White on the A’ara...
‘The A’ara word for shame, mamaja, is polysemous: used to signify both the feeling of shame and to refer to genitalia. There is clearly some connection between these senses of the term, because...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Celebrating 1000+ subscribers … sankyou
When I started this blog, back in 2009, I was very much talking to myself. Thank you to everyone who has made the process of writing a PhD dissertation a great deal less lonely and a great deal …...
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