ISBN:
9781496227287
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 311 Seiten
Series Statement:
New visions in Native American and indigenous studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Everywhen
Keywords:
Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian
;
Time Philosophy
;
Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology)
;
Aboriginal Australians History
;
Torres Strait Islanders History
;
Cosmology
;
Historiography
;
Aborigines
;
Philosophie
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Australian & Oceanian Studies
;
Australien
Abstract:
"Beyond the linear, diachronic, documentary past of Western or academic history, Everywhen asks how Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice"--
Abstract:
"Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating, and reenacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of linear time, making all history now. Ultimately, questions of time and language are questions of Indigenous sovereignty. The Australian case is especially pertinent because Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are among the few Native peoples without a treaty with their colonizers. Appreciating First Nations' time concepts embedded in languages and practices, as Everywhen does, is a route to recognizing diverse forms of Indigenous sovereignties.Everywhen makes three major contributions. The first is a concentration on language, both as a means of knowing and transmitting the past across generations, and as a vital, albeit long-overlooked source material for historical investigation, to reveal how many Native people maintained and continue to maintain ancient traditions and identities through language. Everywhen also considers Indigenous practices of history, or knowing the past, that stretch back more than sixty thousand years; these Indigenous epistemologies might indeed challenge those of the academy. Finally, the volume explores ways of conceiving time across disciplinary boundaries and across cultures, revealing how the experience of time itself is mediated by embodied practices and disciplinary norms.Everywhen brings Indigenous knowledges to bear on the study and meaning of the past and of history itself. It seeks to draw attention to every when, arguing that Native time concepts and practices are vital to understanding Native histories and, further, that they may offer a new framework for history as practiced in the Western academy. "--
Description / Table of Contents:
The languages and temporalities of "Everywhen" in deep history : an Introduction / Ann McGrath and Laura Rademaker -- Songs of country in time -- Standing on the ground and writing on the sky : an indigenous exploration of place, time and histories /Jakelin Troy Bugarrigarra Nyurdany: Because of the dreaming: a discussion of time and place in Yawuru cosmology / Sarah Yu with Dianne Appleby, Lloyd Pigram, and Thomas Edgar -- Old dogs and ice ages in Noongar Country / Clint Bracknell -- Songs and the deep present / Linda Barwick -- Time's archive? The language of words -- Yirriyengburnama-langwa mamawura-langwa : Talking about time in Anindilyakwa / James Bednall -- Australian languages and the deep past / Michael Walsh and Harold Koch -- Time, language and thought : What language can tell us about our concepts of time / Marie-Eve Ritz and Maïa Ponsonnet -- Transforming times -- Innovation, continuity and the punctuated temporality of archaeological narratives / Catherine J. Frieman -- Across "Koori time" and space / John Maynard -- Early European mariners at Cape Keerweer : Bespoke variations of an Aboriginal legend / Peter Sutton -- Time and eternity : Aboriginal and missionary conversations about temporality / Laura Rademaker -- On the shores of the Narinya : contemporary D'harawal interactions with ancestral knowledges / Shannon Foster.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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