Warlpiri Ritual Contexts as Imaginative Spaces for Exploring Traditional Gender Roles

The silence of the donkeys: Sensorial entanglements between people and animals at Willowra and beyond

“…They mimicked her characteristic movements, much as they depicted totemic animals in Dreaming ceremonies, but with a crucial difference—mimesis was not used to express sameness of identity (see Deger, 2006) but rather as a way of exploring Otherness (Taussig, 1993; cf. Curran, 2017). Through such performances, people came to regard donkeys as ‘Jesus's animal’ (Vaarzon‐Morel, forthcoming).…”