Tag: Indigenous Australia
Clair , May 2nd, 2021
The Familiar Strange · Ep #74 Colonialism & Monsters: Yasmine Musharbash on Monster Anthropology & Social Transformation This week Clair brings you an interview with Dr Yasmine Musharbash!…
Kylie Wong Dolan , April 11th, 2021
Some months ago, I went for an early morning run with a mate at my fieldsite. After a short trot together, she left for work, and I decided…
Simon Theobald , November 8th, 2020
What would it mean to be no longer ‘in country’ in Australia? How would the legacies of British colonialism, and the attempted extirpation and survival of Australia’s indigenous…
Kylie Wong Dolan , October 6th, 2019
The documentaries about Adam Goodes capture and abbreviate an array of events on and off the ground that might make recognising and responding to racism seem straightforward. The…
The Familiar Strange , August 11th, 2019
Author: Dr. Yasmine Mushbarbash, senior lecturer in anthropology at the Australian National University. The focus of her ethnographic work has been on Warlpiri people living in Yuendemu, in the…
Julia Brown , March 31st, 2019
“A lot of what individual white anti-racists, as I called them, but also the broader policy frameworks are struggling with is the question of how do we enact…
Julia Brown , August 19th, 2018
“We don’t look back enough to go forward, I don’t think. We need to look in the rear view mirror everyday”. Professor Mick Dodson AM, a Yawuru Aboriginal…
The Familiar Strange , May 30th, 2018
The 27th of May to the 3rd of June is National Reconciliation Week in Australia. Reconciliation, for anthropology, includes reckoning with the discipline’s colonial past, and confronting the…
The Familiar Strange , March 18th, 2018
This month, Julia (1:12) prompts us to think about ‘vaping’ e-cigarettes as a clinical compromise for smokers with schizophrenia. Having observed this strategy to be effective in the…
Julia Brown , March 4th, 2018
“I knew I was making myself vulnerable, but I also knew that there was phone reception down there, and there were other people within shouting range, and that…
Bree Blakeman , April 26th, 2015
Burrut’tji by Djambawa Marawili I was thinking about categories of types of people/relations’ the other day, as in English we have family, friends, colleagues, team-mates etc….
Bree Blakeman , April 26th, 2015
Burrut’tji by Djambawa Marawili I was thinking about categories of types of people/relations’ the other day, as in English we have family, friends, colleagues, team-mates etc….