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Ceremony men : making ethnography and the return of the Strehlow collection / Jason M. Gibson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibson, Jason M. (Jason Matthew), 1976- author.
- Series:
- Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building.
- SUNY series, tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strehlow, T. G. H. (Theodor George Henry), 1908-1978.
- Strehlow, T. G. H.
- Strehlow Research Centre.
- Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities--Collection and preservation.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Archaeology--Moral and ethical aspects--Australia.
- Archaeology.
- Ethnology--Australia.
- Ethnology.
- Australia--Antiquities--Collection and preservation.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438478562
- 1438478569
- OCLC:
- 1155149337
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