Reflexive ethnographic practice : three generations of social researchers in one place / Amanda Kearney, John Bradley, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kearney, Amanda, editor.

Bradley, John, 1959 June 12- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australia.

Ethnology--Australia.

Ethnology.

Yanyuwa (Australian people).

Indigenous peoples--Australia.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 219 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Summary:

"This moving book offers a profound vision of all that reflexive ethnography can be if carried out with sensitivity, humility, and respect for the multiple layers of history in which our work is always enmeshed." --Ruth Behar, Professor at the University of Michigan, USA, and author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys "In essays which span forty years of immersion in Yanyuwa culture and ethnographic fieldwork, the authors reflect on their professional practices through the lens of self-scrutiny, discomfort, uncertainty and awe, exploring the tensions and contradictions between academic rigour and the visceral apprehension of different ways of perceiving the world. This book is a timely and essential contribution to the increasingly complex discourse around how to live with, work with, and write about Indigenous people." --Kim Mahood, award-winning Australian author and artist Putting the anthropological imagination under the spotlight, this book represents the experience of three generations of researchers, each of whom have long collaborated with the same Indigenous community over the course of their careers. In the context of a remote Indigenous Australian community in northern Australia, these researchers--anthropologists, an archeologist, a literary scholar, and an artist--encounter reflexivity and ethnographic practice through deeply personal and professionally revealing accounts of anthropological consciousness, relational encounters, and knowledge sharing. In six discrete chapters, the authors reveal the complexities that run through these relationships, considering how any one of us builds knowledge, shares knowledge, how we encounter different and new knowledge, and how well we are positioned to understand the lived experiences of others, whilst making ourselves fully available to personal change. At its core, this anthology is a meditation on learning and friendship across cultures.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Scene for a Reflexive Practice / Amanda Kearney and John Bradley

Chapter 2: Writing From the Edge: Writing What Was Never Meant to be Written / John Bradley

Chapter 3: Mobility of Mind: Can We Change our Epistemic Habit Through Sustained Ethnograpic Encounters? / Amanda Kearney

Chapter 4: Mapping the Route to the Yanyuwa Atlas / Noah Cameron

Chapter 5: "Invisible Things in Nature": A Reflexive Reading of Alexis Wright's Carpentaria / Frances Devlin-Glass

Chapter 6: Encounters with Yanyuwa Rock Art: Reflexivity, Multivocality, and the 'Archaeological Record' in Northern Australia's Southwest Gulf Country / Liam M. Brady

Chapter 7: So Did You Find Any Culture Up Here Mate?: Young Men, 'Deficit' and Change / Philip Adgemis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030348977

3030348970

OCLC:

1140157007

Publisher Number:

99983910280