Don't Be Like the Jebarra

Treloyn, Sally; Charles, Rona Goonginda

doi:10.4324/9781003043904-16

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“…Anthropologists have likewise experimented with literary approaches to writing (Wiles 2020), sought to expand their insights by engaging with a wider range of disciplines, media, and audiences (Benson 1993; Boyer and Marcus 2021; Kazubowski‐Houston and Magnat 2018), and explored collaborative methods that prioritize applied outcomes for the people and communities that researchers work with. Such approaches have been prominent within Australian ethnomusicology in recent decades (see Barney 2022; Curkpatrick 2023b; Treloyn 2016; Treloyn and Charles 2022).…”

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The Wind Is Always Blowing: Generative Crosscurrents of Ethnographic Dialogue in Australia

Curkpatrick,

Wilfred

2024

Oceania

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Live conversations and writing play an important role in ethnographic research that seeks to develop understanding across cultural differences. Both forms of communication need not remain distinct: written dialogue can develop critical thought while foregrounding the shared contexts and relational impetuses of communication across cultures. Set against the background of recent styles in ethnographic writing about and with Yolŋu people, this article extends from conversations about wata (wind), exploring collaborative practices (music performance and teaching) and approaches to writing ethnography that respond to a core quality of wind as a medium that connects. Wata is a significant theme within manikay (public ceremonial song) that connects Wägilak with their ancestral lands, even as it blows through the country of other groups, allowing new relationships and understandings to be formed. Giving rise to concerns of connection, difference, and movement, wata is a significant theme for considering the ways narrative traditions can shape relationality and give impetus to intellectual inquiry.

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