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Ceremony men : making ethnography and the return of the Strehlow collection /

"Ceremony Men is an account of one scholar's attempt to return an anthropological collection to Aboriginal communities in remote central Australia. In revealing his process, Jason M. Gibson highlights the importance of personal rapport and collaborations in ethnographic exchange, both past...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gibson, Jason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020.
Colección:SUNY Series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Cover Art
  • Language and Orthography
  • A Note on Sources
  • Introduction
  • The Ethnographer T.G.H. Strehlow
  • Agency in the Archive
  • Introducing Anmatyerr People
  • Belonging to Men
  • The Relational, History, and Ethnography
  • Chapter Overview
  • Chapter 1 Archive and Field
  • Prior Interactions
  • Positioning
  • Anmatyerr Country
  • Reading Alongside People
  • Wrangling the Archive
  • Chapter 2 Early Alhernter Encounters
  • "Discovering" the Known
  • Frontier Violence
  • Pastoralism
  • First Ethnographic Encounters
  • The "Government Mob"
  • The Cockatoo Creek Expedition
  • Chapter 3 Strehlow's Scope
  • Plotting a Complicated Life
  • A "Famous Father"
  • Literature and Language
  • Anthropology
  • Continental Connections
  • Parallels and Comparisons
  • The Authentic Value of Culture
  • "Informants" and "Friends"
  • Chapter 4 A Balancing Act
  • First Lessons
  • Atyewe-nhenge (The Age-mate)
  • The Era of Festivals
  • "The King" and the "Akiwarenye"
  • Colonial Interests
  • Inner Cycles and Local Sites
  • "Disowned as Ingkata"
  • Chapter 5 Urrempel Man
  • Urrempel Man
  • Ingkarte?
  • Anpernerrenty (Relations)
  • Singing and Talking
  • "Strehlow-time" and "Three Law"
  • A Specter in the Region
  • "He took it dishonestly!"
  • Chapter 6 Declarations of Relatedness
  • Dancing and Singing Warlapanpa
  • Continuity and Change
  • Declarations of Relatedness
  • Valuable and Vulnerable
  • "Country Business"
  • Chapter 7 The Intermingling of Intimate Narratives
  • Malcolm's Story
  • Orality, Literacy, and Historical Practice
  • Finding "Big Foot"
  • Questioning the Archival Account
  • Traveling to Artwertakert
  • The "Written Down Story"
  • Reading the Family Trees
  • The Trouble with Terminology
  • Biography and Becoming
  • Chapter 8 "You're My Kwertengerl".
  • Strehlow's Collection?
  • "Beautiful" Yet "Dangerous"
  • The Logic of Repatriation
  • "You're my kwertengerl"
  • "We Still Working"
  • Teaching with "Content"
  • Tin Boxes and Digital Files
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.