Intellectual Soup: On the Reformulation and Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge

Smith, Claire; Copley, Vincent; Jackson, Gary

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68652-3_2

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“…The (generally ageing) members of these communities consider environmentalism and heritage protection as discouraging obstacles for the development of prospective (slate or quarrying) companies which might prevent their youths from emigrating. As far as locals know, archaeology imposes prevention and The reality is similar as experienced by indigenous archaeologies elsewhere (Nicholas 2011;Smith et al 2018). This relationship of trust has allowed the owners of the plots around the hillfort to sign the necessary permits.…”

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Myth, science and community: The archaeological project of San Lourenzo hillfort (Galicia, Spain)

Vila

2020

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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Every night a saint flees the Parish church of Cereixa, a small hamlet in Atlantic Europe.It rushes back to its home, upon the hillfort of San Lourenzo, an Iron-Age fortified settlement. Despite having been Christianized in the Middle Ages, the hillfort is still home to mythical dwellers -the mouros (moors). In 2016 the villagers of Cereixa decided to recuperate and research this archaeological site. This article reviews the crucial role played by community archaeology throughout this particular process of heritage empowerment. Our work-team's strategy draws on popular religion, folklore and traditions to test the powers of science in its efforts to provide a tourist resource that can foster local development while consolidating identity references. This experience elicits some reflections on the methods of community management as part of an alternative and counter-hegemonic model.

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Myth, science and community: The archaeological project of San Lourenzo hillfort (Galicia, Spain)

Vila

2020

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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“…The destruction and mistreatment of the Barka, which is also known by its colonial name of the Whilst I acknowledge the benefits of conducting prolonged ethnography over several years, my main focus during the relatively short but intensive fieldwork period centered on how social interactions with Aboriginal people can encourage reflexive insight into one's own habits of thought and action. To expect that through the practice of ethnography alone Indigenous people will benevolently provide all the 'ingredients' (Smith et al 2018) necessary for non-Indigenous researchers (and the wider non-Indigenous community) to 'decolonize' is somewhat misguided. This is the case because decolonizing involves an ongoing reflexive engagement.…”

Section: The Barka: a Contested Spacementioning

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Decolonizing the Intercultural: A Call for Decolonizing Consciousness in Settler-Colonial Australia

Bradfield¹

2019

Religions

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Throughout this article I make a case for decolonizing consciousness as a reflexive orientation that reforms the ways in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous life-worlds are navigated and mutually apprehended in a settler colonial context. I consider how through decolonizing dominant habits of thought and action an intercultural dialogue responsive of diverse and mutually informing realities may be cultivated. This article aims to first introduce the key characteristics of ‘decolonizing consciousness’, this being reflexivity, deep listening, and border thinking. Using the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia, as a backdrop, I consider how place and environment are agents and facilitators of a contested intercultural dialogue where Indigenous and non-Indigenous ontologies, epistemologies, and axiologies often come to head. Drawing on fieldwork conducted with Aboriginal residents in far western New South Wales, as well as literature on decolonizing theory and Indigenous knowledge systems from different socio-cultural contexts, I argue that intercultural dialogue begins with reflexive contemplation of how one’s lived experiences is embedded in the realities of others.

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Kincentric Ecology, Species Maintenance and the Relational Power of Place in Northern Australia

Kearney

Bradley

Brady

2019

Oceania

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This paper considers themes of species maintenance and place engagement in Yanyuwa country, northern Australia. It traces the complexity of interpretations and relational contexts involved in places that are commonly – and we argue – misleadingly, referred to as increase and magic sites. Examining one specific place, at which people carry out maintenance rituals, we explore the complex bonds that unite Yanyuwa with the geography that is the Ancestral Hill Kangaroo. Not content with the classificatory habit of declaring actions either increase oriented or hunting magic, this research more fully explicates the relational substance of places that play a key role in ecological health. This is achieved by asking how might the profundity of a place of relational importance, such as a maintenance site, be better understood and written of in ways that convey an Indigenous ontology and epistemology?

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Intellectual Soup: On the Reformulation and Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Myth, science and community: The archaeological project of San Lourenzo hillfort (Galicia, Spain)

Myth, science and community: The archaeological project of San Lourenzo hillfort (Galicia, Spain)

Decolonizing the Intercultural: A Call for Decolonizing Consciousness in Settler-Colonial Australia

Kincentric Ecology, Species Maintenance and the Relational Power of Place in Northern Australia

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