Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics
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Overview
This is a path-breaking collection of essays that is essential reading for Australian and international scholars.' -- Mark McKennaSynopsis
Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating and re-enacting 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 peoples are among the few First Nations people without a treaty with their colonisers. Appreciating First Nations' time concepts embedded in languages and practices, as Everywhen does, is a route to recognising diverse forms of Indigenous sovereignties. Everywhen brings Indigenous knowledges to bear on the study and meaning of the past and of history itself. It seeks to draw attention to every when, arguing that Aboriginal time concepts and practices are vital to understanding Aboriginal histories and, further, that they may offer a new framework for history as practised in the Western academy.Book Details
Published
February 1, 2023
Publisher
NewSouth Publishing
Pages
311
ISBN
9781742237329