Cross-Cultural Categories and the Inclusion of Aboriginal Art

Morphy, Howard

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“…The "Ancestral determinants" envelop the ancestral laws, or for Yolngu shortly Law (Morphy, 1991). These precepts instruct to nourish life.…”

Section: Feeding Poetic Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining fecundity: artistic creation as care for life

Weber

2023

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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Art is as old as human culture. For most of the time, art was part of an exchange between humans and the cosmic order. Art was meant as a gift to nourish the fecundity of life. Art was communication with ancestral creational powers — the invocation of a poetic space from which creation entered the material realm. This paper explores art as a way of tapping into the invisible forces of reality. I argue that humans can experience these forces as aliveness (joy/desire to give) and can transmit them by poetic creation. Through art, humans have a capacity to nourish life, in parallel to how natural productivity unfolds from the unseen into the embodied domain. This capacity is a source of artistic creation. It is a crucial means to participate in a life-giving cosmos. Although the Western understanding of art is far from this attitude, art has remained the domain where aliveness is accommodated not with empirical, but with imaginational means. In the current global crisis of life, it is crucial to remember the potential of art not only to relate but to contribute to aliveness. Programs in environmental education should build on the direct perception and expressive imagination of aliveness.

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“…The "Ancestral determinants" envelop the ancestral laws, or for Yolngu shortly Law (Morphy, 1991). These precepts instruct to nourish life.…”

Section: Feeding Poetic Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining fecundity: artistic creation as care for life

Weber

2023

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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“…The enduring presence of anthropologists in the Kimberley from the late 1920s saw a new generation in the 1970s who were eager to refigure their discipline towards more contemporary social perspectives and issues (Morphy 2007). Many of these academics were dedicated to standing up against social injustices, engaging in Aboriginal land rights, and working towards closing the economic and social gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.…”

Section: Anthropology Versus Archaeologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Histories of Australian Rock Art Research

Porr

2023

Australian Archaeology

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Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.

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“…recognizes in the essay introducing the poem, is to participate in “a human commons and a politics of speciation, the deep unfurling and substantiation of organic and cultural form”. In this way, Eckermann is inferring a transnational interpretation of what Howard Morphy (1998: 103) described as a “totemic geography”, a spiritual understanding of the land as a landscape bearing the marks of the movements of ancestral beings. These connections between Aboriginal peoples and an “ancestral present” (Morphy, 1998) allows the land to be experienced or engaged with as “a sign system because it was implicitly encultured at the moment of its creation in the Dreamtime” (Minter, 2013: 259).…”

Section: Ali Cobby Eckermann and Gaelic Irelandmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this way, Eckermann is inferring a transnational interpretation of what Howard Morphy (1998: 103) described as a “totemic geography”, a spiritual understanding of the land as a landscape bearing the marks of the movements of ancestral beings. These connections between Aboriginal peoples and an “ancestral present” (Morphy, 1998) allows the land to be experienced or engaged with as “a sign system because it was implicitly encultured at the moment of its creation in the Dreamtime” (Minter, 2013: 259). Minter (2013: 259) explains further that what is required is not a romancing of the natural landscape from a human vantage point, but a complex ethics of recognition: “More than just caring for or appealing to Country an ethos of Country calls upon histories of ‘character’ as they appear within networks of connection, interdependence and signification”.…”

Section: Ali Cobby Eckermann and Gaelic Irelandmentioning

confidence: 99%

The inter-Indigenous encounter

Moore

2019

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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There exists an extensive amount of research in the fields of anthropology, literary studies, and philosophy driven by settler-oriented comparisons between Indigenous nations that verified the representation of Indigenous peoples as Other. Meanwhile, the amount of scholarly works on comparative Indigenous literary encounters in the last decade is worthy of note as indicative of the emergence of a planetary decolonial consciousness. To present an argument as to the need to think of the planetary agency of Indigenous writers, I will closely examine the variety of poetic strategies utilized by Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann of South Australia, and Yoogum and Kudjela poet Lionel Fogarty of Southern Queensland, in their writing towards other Indigenous peoples from Gaelic Ireland, and the Pacific. This serves two crucial interventions, puncturing through the deficit discourse that essentializes the poethical contribution of Aboriginal writers, and developing comparative strategies for future Indigenous-to-Indigenous encounters.

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Cross-Cultural Categories and the Inclusion of Aboriginal Art

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Sustaining fecundity: artistic creation as care for life

Sustaining fecundity: artistic creation as care for life

Histories of Australian Rock Art Research

The inter-Indigenous encounter

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