Deborah Bird Rose
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View article: ‘Looking at all the Country’
‘Looking at all the Country’ Open
Looking at all the Country'When you die, you're finished up.So when you're alive it's good to go walking around looking at all the Country.Doug Campbell RangesThe lands that people travelled on foot are areas within which they know, with s…
View article: Footwalk Epistemology
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Footwalk EpistemologyTwo different law.[One for whitefellas, and] Nother Law belong to ngumpin, blackfella.You know him bin walking on this land for many many years.Him bin walking by foot. Riley Young WinpilinAboriginal hunter-gatherers m…
View article: Coming into Country
Coming into Country Open
When Jessie Wirrpa took me walkabout she called out to her ancestors (Figure 1.1).She told them who we were and what we were doing, and she asked them to help us.'Give us fish,' she would call out, 'the children are hungry.
View article: Coming into Life
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power out of this Country.
View article: Attentive Subjects
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Yundupala [you, specify] know any water here?'That old men been tellem [asking] us.'No.I don't know.' 'You can't see im creek here?No? Well, should be here somewhere.'When im been see im that bird nini, that bird [sings out] niiii niiii [o…
View article: Dreaming Organisation
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Dreaming OrganisationBefore kartiya [whitefellas], blackfellas bin just walking around organising the Country.Hobbles Danaiyarri CreationPeople's work to keep the Country 'organised' builds on a foundation of Dreaming tracks and connection…
View article: Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia
Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia Open
In the author's own words, Dreaming Ecology 'explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustaina…
View article: Lively Ethography
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This article is an effort to dwell with the kinds of writing and thinking practices that we have been developing in our research, especially over the past seven years. This is an approach grounded in an attentiveness to the evolving ways o…