Restoring the Chain of Memory
Autor James L. Coxen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 feb 2018
During numerous research trips between 1932 and 1966, the local Indigenous Arrernte Elders entrusted him with sacred objects, allowed him to film their secret rituals and record their songs, partly because he was regarded as one of them, an 'insider', who they believed would help preserve their ancient traditions in the face of threats posed by outside forces.
Strehlow characterised Arrernte society as 'personal monototemism in a polytotemic community'. This concept provides an important insight into understanding how Arrernte society was traditionally organised and how the societal structure was re-enforced by carefully organised rituals. Strehlow's research into this complex societal system is here examined both in terms of its meaning and current application and with reference to how the societal structure traditionally was interwoven into religious understandings of the world. It exemplifies precisely how the 'insider-outsider' problem is embodied in one individual: he was accepted by the Arrernte people as an insider who used this knowledge to interpret Arrernte culture for non-Indigenous audiences (outsiders).
The volume documents how Strehlow's works are contributing to the current repatriation by Australian Aboriginal leaders of rituals, ancient songs, meanings associated with sacred objects and genealogies, much of which by the 1950s had been lost through the processes of colonisation, missionary influences and Australian governmental interference in the lives of Indigenous societies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781781793374
ISBN-10: 1781793379
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 4 figures
Dimensiuni: 161 x 240 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Equinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN-10: 1781793379
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 4 figures
Dimensiuni: 161 x 240 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Notă biografică
James L. Cox is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Descriere
This book describes and analyses the writings and records compiled by the notable linguist, T.G.H. Strehlow (1908-1978), on Australian Aboriginal religions, particularly as practised by the Arrernte of the central desert region.