Reflexive Ethnographic Practice (Three Generations of Social Researchers in One Place) ||

"This moving book offers a profound vision of all that reflexive ethnography can be if carried out with sensitivity, humility, and respect for the multiple layers of history in which our work is always enmeshed." --Ruth Behar, Professor at the University of Michigan, USA, and author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys "In essays which span forty years of immersion in Yanyuwa culture and ethnographic fieldwork, the authors reflect on their professional practices through the lens of self-scrutiny, discomfort, uncertainty and awe, exploring the tensions and contradictions between academic rigour and the visceral apprehension of different ways of perceiving the world. This book is a timely and essential contribution to the increasingly complex discourse around how to live with, work with, and write about Indigenous people." --Kim Mahood, award-winning Australian author and artist Putting the anthropological imagination under the spotlight, this book represents the experience of three generations of researchers, each of whom have long collaborated with the same Indigenous community over the course of their careers. In the context of a remote Indigenous Australian community in northern Australia, these researchers--anthropologists, an archeologist, a literary scholar, and an artist--encounter reflexivity and ethnographic practice through deeply personal and professionally revealing accounts of anthropological consciousness, relational encounters, and knowledge sharing. In six discrete chapters, the authors reveal the complexities that run through these relationships, considering how any one of us builds knowledge, shares knowledge, how we encounter different and new knowledge, and how well we are positioned to understand the lived experiences of others, whilst making ourselves fully available to personal change. At its core, this anthology is a meditation on learning and friendship across cultures Foreword Acknowledgements Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures 1 Introduction: The Scene for a Reflexive Practice The Start of a Story Our Approach to the Book Collaboration and Change Yanyuwa Families, Country and Law On Becoming Reflexive Overview References 2 Writing from the Edge: Writing What Was Never Meant to Be Written Introduction Living on the Edge: Suffering and Loss Field Notes and Reflections: Transitioning into the Academy Writing of Knowledge Songs, Stories, and Relationships Knowing Loss and Finding Words Final Thoughts Contributor Response, by Philip Adgemis References 3 Mobility of Mind: Can We Change Our Epistemic Habit Through Sustained Ethnographic Encounters? Introduction What Do I Know? How Did This Happen? Mobility of Mind: Epistemic Habit in the Context of Fieldwork Encounters Sustained Ethnographic Encounters as Acts of Testimony and Witnessing Did I Always Know? Why Have Yanyuwa Taught Me? Am I Permitted to Know an Indigenous Epistemology in a Settler-Colonial Context? Final Thoughts Contributor Response, by John Bradley References 4 Mapping the Route to the Yanyuwa Atlas Putting It Down, Giving Voice to Country Changes, Shifts, and Paradoxes Threads, Tracks, and Paths to Yanyuwa Relationships How Getting Lost Offered Us an Atlas Moving In from the Edges Art as Ways of Knowing and Expressing Creased Maps and Field Jottings Sensing a Topography of Rage Moving from Stasis A Final Reflexive Gathering Contributor Response, by Liam M. Brady References 5 “Invisible Things in Nature”: A Reflexive Reading of Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria Introduction Carpentaria’s Unexpectedness The Many Strands that Make up Carpentaria Reading Carpentaria in the Light of an Apprenticeship in Yanyuwa Cosmology Reading Wright’s Rainbow Serpent Final Reflection Contributor Response, by Amanda Kearney References 6 Encounters with Yanyuwa Rock Art: Reflexivity, Multivocality, and the “Archaeological Record” in Northern Australia’s Southwest Gulf Country Introduction Reflexivity in Archaeology Practice Archaeology and the Southwest Gulf Country Research Questions and Entering the Field Looking for a Donkey Kurrmurnnyini and Sorcery Rock Art Yalkawarru and the Power of Place Discussion Contributor Response, by Nona Cameron References 7 “So Did You Find Any Culture Up Here Mate?”: Young Men, “Deficit” and Change Introduction Realizations and Motivations Discourse and Deficit Framings: “Some People Just Hate Us” Expectations and Intersubjective Connections Change and the Shame in Not Knowing Reflections Contributor Response, By Frances Devlin-Glass References Index 473256_1_En_BookBackmatter_OnlinePDF.pdf Index 473256_1_En_BookBackmatter_OnlinePDF.pdf Index