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Back to topEnacted Relations: Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community (Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology #15) (Hardcover)
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Description
The Yolngu Indigenous people in the Northeast Arnhem Land of Australia respond to neo-colonial challenges by continuing to affirm their political autonomy and transmit 'Yolngu Law', which are ways of knowing and being with the younger generation. They deal with non-indigenous institutions, through participation of bodies, language, things, images of movement and notions of mutual care, feelings and accountability. This book explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.
About the Author
Franca Tamisari teaches Cultural Anthropology and is the Head of the Anthropology Program at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She has also lectured at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland (1996-2004).
