Geertzian moments (or, ‘when ethnographers lose their shit’)
Returning home from hunting on our Husband’s country, fieldwork (2008) There are certain moments during fieldwork that anthropologists refer to as ‘Geertzian moments’ o…
Tag: Thesis/Yolngu related writing
The way value inheres: Yolŋu riŋgitj and its relationship to Malay ‘ringgit’
Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Port of Macassar, 1947. There are many loan words from Malay and other Austronesian languages in the Yolŋu languages of east Arnhem Land (see…
The way value inheres: Yolŋu riŋgitj and its relationship to Malay ‘ringgit’
Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Port of Macassar, 1947. There are many loan words from Malay and other Austronesian languages in the Yolŋu languages of east Arnhem Land (see…
Early morning Yirralka-ŋura
Bukmak Yolŋu’yulŋu baḏak ŋorra yukurra, Everyone is still asleep, wäwa walala, all [our] brothers waku walala, all [our] children gutharra walala, gaminyarr walala,…
Early morning Yirralka-ŋura
Bukmak Yolŋu’yulŋu baḏak ŋorra yukurra, Everyone is still asleep, wäwa walala, all [our] brothers waku walala, all [our] children gutharra walala, gaminyarr walala,…
Dhuŋgur’-yun-nha: a short poem and comment on stuff
Yes, I know I’m always on about social order as affect. This is an image from the British Museum. Today I was reflecting on the fact…
Dhuŋgur’-yun-nha: a short poem and comment on stuff
Yes, I know I’m always on about social order as affect. This is an image from the British Museum. Today I was reflecting on the fact…