Strings of connectedness : essays in honour of Ian Keen / edited by P. G. Toner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toner, P.G.

Contributor:

Toner, P. G. (Peter G.), editor.

Language:

Australian languages

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Australia.

Aboriginal Australians.

Research--Northern Territory--Arnhem Land.

Research.

Aboriginal Australians--Religious life.

Language and culture--Australia.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2015

Acton, A.C.T. : Australian National University, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Text file

Summary:

For nearly four decades, Ian Keen has been an important, challenging, and engaging presence in Australian anthropology. Beginning with his PhD research in the mid-1970s and through to the present, he has been a leading scholar of Yolngu society and culture, and has made lasting contributions to a range of debates. His scholarly productivity, however, has never been limited to the Yolngu, and he has conducted research and published widely on many other facets of Australian Aboriginal society: on Aboriginal culture in 'settled' Australia; comparative historical work on Aboriginal societies at the threshold of colonisation; a continuing interest in kinship; ongoing writing on language and society; and a set of significant land claims across the continent. In this volume of essays in his honour, a group of Keen's former students and current colleagues celebrate the diversity of his scholarly interests and his inspiring influence as a mentor and a friend, with contributions ranging across language structure, meaning, and use; the post-colonial engagement of Aboriginal Australians with the ideas and structures of 'mainstream' society; ambiguity and indeterminacy in Aboriginal symbolic systems and ritual practices; and many other interconnected themes, each of which represents a string that he has woven into the rich tapestry of his scholarly work.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Foreword

1. Introduction: Strings of Connectedness in Ian Keen's Scholarship

2. Judicial Understandings of Aboriginality and Language Use in Criminal Cases

3. Change and Succession in Australian Aboriginal Claims to Land

4. From Skills to Stories: Land Rights, Life Histories and the Terms of Engagement

5. Conceptual Dynamism and Ambiguity in Marrangu Djinang Cosmology, North-Central Arnhem Land

6. Steppe Riders in the East Kimberley Contact Zone: Zoroastrianism, Apocalyptic Judeo-Christianity and Evangelical Missionaries in Australia's Colonised Periphery

7. The Failures of Translation across Incommensurable Knowledge Systems: A Case Study of Arabic Grammar Instruction

8. Bakhtin's Theory of the Utterance and Dhalwangu Manikay

9. Development of Collecting at the Milingimbi Mission

10. Rupture and Readjustment of Tradition: Personal Autonomy in the Feminised Warlpiri Diaspora in Australia

11. The Language of 'Spiritual Power': From Mana to Märr on the Crocodile Islands

12. Reconstructing Aboriginal Economy and Society: The New South Wales South Coast at the Threshold of Colonisation

13. Long-Distance Diffusion of Affinal Kinship Terms as Evidence of Late Holocene Change in Marriage Systems in Aboriginal Australia

Afterword

Appendix: Ian Keen's Publications, 1977-2015

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781925022636

1925022633

OCLC:

909022883

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_578882