PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures): Recent submissions
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Variation or contamination? Narrative instability in the Italian traditional song Donna lombarda
Published 1994This paper arises out of my doctoral research (Barwick 1985), which examined a large sample of documented versions of the Italian traditional narrative song (or 'ballad', to adopt the term by which such strophic narrative ...Open AccessPreprint -
Women as performers and agents of change in the Italian ballad tradition
Published 1992What is lost when performances of orally-transmitted traditional songs are transcribed and published as written documents? This question arose for me as a result of the lack of connection I found between my experiences as ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Transcription as deflowering: collection practices in Italy, pre-1939
Published 1988-1989This paper focuses on the interaction between transcribers and performers of traditional songs before the ready availability of sound recording. What acts did the collectors perform to produce the written documents that ...Open AccessArticle -
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 ...Open AccessBook 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 ...Open AccessBook chapter