Everywhen : Australia and the language of deep history / edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rademaker, Laura, editor.

Troy, Jakelin, editor.

McGrath, Ann, 1956- editor.

Series:

New visions in Native American and indigenous studies.

New visions in Native American and indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Torres Strait Islanders--History.

Torres Strait Islanders.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Historiography--Australia.

Historiography.

Aboriginal Australians--History.

Aboriginal Australians.

Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian.

Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Beyond the linear, diachronic, documentary past of Western or academic history, Everywhen asks how Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice"-- Provided by publisher.

"Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating, and reenacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of linear time, making all history now. Ultimately, questions of time and language are questions of Indigenous sovereignty. The Australian case is especially pertinent because Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are among the few Native peoples without a treaty with their colonizers. Appreciating First Nations' time concepts embedded in languages and practices, as Everywhen does, is a route to recognizing diverse forms of Indigenous sovereignties.Everywhen makes three major contributions. The first is a concentration on language, both as a means of knowing and transmitting the past across generations, and as a vital, albeit long-overlooked source material for historical investigation, to reveal how many Native people maintained and continue to maintain ancient traditions and identities through language. Everywhen also considers Indigenous practices of history, or knowing the past, that stretch back more than sixty thousand years; these Indigenous epistemologies might indeed challenge those of the academy. Finally, the volume explores ways of conceiving time across disciplinary boundaries and across cultures, revealing how the experience of time itself is mediated by embodied practices and disciplinary norms.Everywhen brings Indigenous knowledges to bear on the study and meaning of the past and of history itself. It seeks to draw attention to every when, arguing that Native time concepts and practices are vital to understanding Native histories and, further, that they may offer a new framework for history as practiced in the Western academy. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The languages and temporalities of "Everywhen" in deep history / Ann McGrath and Laura Rademaker

Songs of country in time

Standing on the ground and writing on the sky : an indigenous exploration of place, time and histories /Jakelin Troy

Bugarrigarra Nyurdany, because of the dreaming: a discussion of time and place in Yawuru cosmology / Sarah Yu with Yawuru Community Members Dianne Appleby, Lloyd Pigram, and Thomas Edgar

Old dogs and ice ages in Noongar Country / Clint Bracknell

Songs and the deep present / Linda Barwick

Time's archive? The language of words

Yirriyengburnama-langwa mamawura-langwa : Talking about time in Anindilyakwa / James Bednall

Australian languages and the deep past / Michael Walsh and Harold Koch

Time, language and thought : What language can tell us about our concepts of time / Marie-Eve Ritz and Maïa Ponsonnet

Transforming times

Innovation, continuity and the punctuated temporality of archaeological narratives / Catherine J. Frieman

Across "Koori time" and space / John Maynard

Early European mariners at Cape Keerweer : Bespoke variations of an Aboriginal legend / Peter Sutton

Time and eternity : Aboriginal and missionary conversations about temporality / Laura Rademaker

On the shores of the Narinya : contemporary D'harawal interactions with ancestral knowledges / Shannon Foster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4962-3437-5