Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Recent submissions
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Reconfiguring relational personhood among Lander Warlpiri
Published 2018-01-01In recent years many Indigenous communities in central Australia have undergone multiple dramatic changes. Responses to the resulting tensions, conflicts and anxiety illuminate local understandings of personhood. Drawing ...Book chapter -
Alien relations: Ecological and Ontological Dilemmas Posed for Indigenous Australians in the Management of “Feral” Camels on their Lands
Published 2017-01-01The colonization of indigenous people and their lands typically involved the introduction of domesticated species integral to the development of settler economies. These animals were bound up with European social and ...Book chapter -
“Bilingual time” at Willowra: The beginnings of a community-initiated program, 1976-1977
Published 2017-01-01Formal schooling began at the Warlpiri-speaking community of Willowra, in north-western Central Australia, in 1968. When the present authors arrived at the school in 1976, to take up positions as the new teachers, many ...Book chapter -
Continuity and Change in Warlpiri Practices of Marking the Landscape
Published 2016-01-01Warlpiri people of Central Australia have served on a number of occasions as exemplars of the Derridean premise that no society is without writing (Derrida 1976: 109) (e.g. Rothenberg and Rothenberg 1983: 139; Biddle ...Book chapter -
Listening to ethnographic Holocaust musical testimony through the 'ears' of Jean-Luc Nancy
Published 2016-01-01Too often, musical testimony from the Holocaust does not receive the sort of careful attention and openness that characterises the act of listening. For the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, listening (écouter) is to be ...Book chapter