Reflexive Ethnographic Practice: Three Generations of Social Researchers in One Place

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction: The Scene for a Reflexive Practice
	The Start of a Story
	Our Approach to the Book
	Collaboration and Change
	Yanyuwa Families, Country and Law
	On Becoming Reflexive
	Overview
	References
2 Writing from the Edge: Writing What Was Never Meant to Be Written
	Introduction
	Living on the Edge: Suffering and Loss
	Field Notes and Reflections: Transitioning into the Academy
	Writing of Knowledge
	Songs, Stories, and Relationships
	Knowing Loss and Finding Words
	Final Thoughts
	Contributor Response, by Philip Adgemis
	References
3 Mobility of Mind: Can We Change Our Epistemic Habit Through Sustained Ethnographic Encounters?
	Introduction
	What Do I Know?
	How Did This Happen?
	Mobility of Mind: Epistemic Habit in the Context of Fieldwork Encounters
	Sustained Ethnographic Encounters as Acts of Testimony and Witnessing
	Did I Always Know?
	Why Have Yanyuwa Taught Me?
	Am I Permitted to Know an Indigenous Epistemology in a Settler-Colonial Context?
	Final Thoughts
	Contributor Response, by John Bradley
	References
4 Mapping the Route to the Yanyuwa Atlas
	Putting It Down, Giving Voice to Country
	Changes, Shifts, and Paradoxes
	Threads, Tracks, and Paths to Yanyuwa Relationships
	How Getting Lost Offered Us an Atlas
	Moving In from the Edges
	Art as Ways of Knowing and Expressing
	Creased Maps and Field Jottings
	Sensing a Topography of Rage
	Moving from Stasis
	A Final Reflexive Gathering
	Contributor Response, by Liam M. Brady
	References
5 “Invisible Things in Nature”: A Reflexive Reading of Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
	Introduction
	Carpentaria’s Unexpectedness
	The Many Strands that Make up Carpentaria
	Reading Carpentaria in the Light of an Apprenticeship in Yanyuwa Cosmology
	Reading Wright’s Rainbow Serpent
	Final Reflection
	Contributor Response, by Amanda Kearney
	References
6 Encounters with Yanyuwa Rock Art: Reflexivity, Multivocality, and the “Archaeological Record” in Northern Australia’s Southwest Gulf Country
	Introduction
	Reflexivity in Archaeology Practice
	Archaeology and the Southwest Gulf Country
	Research Questions and Entering the Field
	Looking for a Donkey
	Kurrmurnnyini and Sorcery Rock Art
	Yalkawarru and the Power of Place
	Discussion
	Contributor Response, by Nona Cameron
	References
7 “So Did You Find Any Culture Up Here Mate?”: Young Men, “Deficit” and Change
	Introduction
	Realizations and Motivations
	Discourse and Deficit Framings: “Some People Just Hate Us”
	Expectations and Intersubjective Connections
	Change and the Shame in Not Knowing
	Reflections
	Contributor Response, By Frances Devlin-Glass
	References
Index
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