Everywhen: Australia and the language of deep history

"Beyond the linear, diachronic, documentary past of Western or academic history, Everywhen asks how Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice"--

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Weitere Verfasser: McGrath, Ann (HerausgeberIn), Rademaker, Laura (HerausgeberIn), Troy, Jakelin (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln Co-published by the University of Nebraska Press [2023]
American Philosophical Society [2023]
Schriftenreihe:New visions in Native American and indigenous studies
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Zusammenfassung:"Beyond the linear, diachronic, documentary past of Western or academic history, Everywhen asks how Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice"--
"Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating, and reenacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of linear time, making all history now. Ultimately, questions of time and language are questions of Indigenous sovereignty. The Australian case is especially pertinent because Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are among the few Native peoples without a treaty with their colonizers. Appreciating First Nations' time concepts embedded in languages and practices, as Everywhen does, is a route to recognizing diverse forms of Indigenous sovereignties.Everywhen makes three major contributions.
The first is a concentration on language, both as a means of knowing and transmitting the past across generations, and as a vital, albeit long-overlooked source material for historical investigation, to reveal how many Native people maintained and continue to maintain ancient traditions and identities through language. Everywhen also considers Indigenous practices of history, or knowing the past, that stretch back more than sixty thousand years; these Indigenous epistemologies might indeed challenge those of the academy. Finally, the volume explores ways of conceiving time across disciplinary boundaries and across cultures, revealing how the experience of time itself is mediated by embodied practices and disciplinary norms.Everywhen brings Indigenous knowledges to bear on the study and meaning of the past and of history itself.
Beschreibung:x, 311 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm
ISBN:9781496227287

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