Browsing Sydney Conservatorium of Music by subject "1601 Anthropology"
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Bird/monsters and contemporary social fears in the Central Desert of Australia
Published 2020Many societies across the world see birds as providers of information – be it environmental, cultural, or symbolic. In Central Australia, birds are seen by Aboriginal people as referents. One way in which central Australian ...Open AccessBook chapter -
On the poetic imagery of smoke in Warlpiri songs
Published 2018Smoke, an ever-present source of comfort in day-to-day Warlpiri lives, is also a powerful ritual symbol and theme in the poetic language of Warlpiri songs. Rather than signalling these soothing qualities, in this more ...Open AccessArticle -
Representations of Indigenous cultural property in collaborative publishing projects: the Warlpiri women’s yawulyu songbooks
Published 2018This paper explores issues around the representation of Indigenous cultural property, voices and images in two books of Warlpiri women's yawulyu song traditions that form part of a series published by Batchelor Press ...Open AccessArticle -
Sharing and storing digital cultural records in Central Australian Indigenous communities
Published 2021This article considers how Indigenous peoples in Central Australia share and keep digital records of events and cultural knowledge in a period of rapid technological change. To date, research has focused upon the development ...Open AccessPreprint -
Sustaining Indigenous Songs
Published 2020As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to ...Book -
‘Waiting for Jardiwanpa’: History and Mediation in Warlpiri Fire Ceremonies
Published 2019Warlpiri fire ceremonies, including Jardiwanpa, have been documented in various ethnographies and films for over 100 years. Focused on the documented history of these rituals in Yuendumu, and through ethnographic observations ...Open AccessArticle -
Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu
Published 2017Yawulyu have been passed down through many generations of Warlpiri women. In this book, the juju-ngaliya 'ritual experts' from Yuendumu present four yawulyu song series which follow the journeys of a number of ancestral ...Open AccessBook