[Anthropgrad] Friday Seminar, August 24th

[Nelia.Hyndman-Rizik at anu.edu.au]

Hi all,


 

We have a seminar this Friday the 24th of August at 3pm in the Milgate Room,
AD HOPE and the presenter will be Bentley James.  His presentation will be
entitled:

 


"Ancestors and the everyday traditional subsistence economy at Murrungga,
Outer Crocodile Islands, North-east Arnhem Land"


 

The relationship between Aboriginal people, place and ancestral links
continues to be of interest to ethnographers, and for good reason it has
been the focus of considerable attention from anthropologists in the past.
Much has been written about this and related aspects in the lives of the
Yolngu people of North east Arnhem Land, however little is known
specifically about the Yan-nhangu speaking Yolngu people living on the
western extreme of the Yolngu cultural bloc in the Crocodile Islands. 

This post-fieldwork seminar considers the continued importance of what
Stanner called the 'foundational dramas' for everyday subsistence activity
among the Yan-nhangu who live in the Crocodile Islands. Ancestral beings
created land and sea, and places are imbued with the signs of their passing.
The Islands and surrounding seas contain a network of ancestral tracks,
which connect sites that, as Morphy has argued, coordinate the mythological
map of Yolngu land and social relations. The seminar will include a 25
minute video of some of the everyday activities on Murrungga in the outer
Crocodile Islands, and an exegesis of the cosmological significance of
everyday subsistence activity. 

 

Hope to see you all there,

 

 

Nelia Hyndman-Rizik

PhD Candidate

School of Archaeology and Anthropology

The Australian National University

mailto:nelia.hyndman- <mailto:nelia.hyndman-rizik at anu.edu.au>  rizik
@anu.edu.au

mailto:nelia.n at bigpond.com

Mobile: 0437 600 157

 

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