Yolngu Country as a Multidimensional Tangle of Relations

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_8781
dc.title	Yolngu Country as a Multidimensional Tangle of Relations. How ‘Everything is Linked to One Another’
dc.contributor.author	Tamisari Franca
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2022/1/yolngu-country-as-a-multidimensional-tangle-of-rel/
dc.description.abstract	This paper explores how Australian Indigenous people express their mutual life‑giving bonds with other‑than‑humans such as animals, plants, natural features, and land in terms of kinship relationships. I will describe an ‘ontology of connectivity’ and a ‘mutuality of being’ among living beings in terms of reciprocal responsibility, interdependence, cooperation and care. In reference to my ethnographic research in Northeast Arnhem Land, I insist on the priority of relating, and on the affective nature of multispecies relationships, and illustrate how these are celebrated, maintained and reactivated through ceremonial songs, as well as new forms of music.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lagoonscapes
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Issue 1 \| June 2022
dc.issued	2022-07-07
dc.dateAccepted	2022-05-20
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-03-14
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-2709
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2022/01/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Australian Indigenous country
dc.subject	Multispecies kinship
dc.subject	North Australia
dc.subject	Northeast Arnhem Land
dc.subject	Ontology of connectivity
dc.subject	Totemism
dc.subject	Yolngu people

Research Article
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How ‘Everything is Linked to One Another’

Franca Tamisari Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

This paper explores how Australian Indigenous people express their mutual life‑giving bonds with other‑than‑humans such as animals, plants, natural features, and land in terms of kinship relationships. I will describe an ‘ontology of connectivity’ and a ‘mutuality of being’ among living beings in terms of reciprocal responsibility, interdependence, cooperation and care. In reference to my ethnographic research in Northeast Arnhem Land, I insist on the priority of relating, and on the affective nature of multispecies relationships, and illustrate how these are celebrated, maintained and reactivated through ceremonial songs, as well as new forms of music.

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July 7, 2022

Accepted

May 20, 2022

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March 14, 2022

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Keywords: Australian Indigenous country • Ontology of connectivity • North Australia • Yolngu people • Northeast Arnhem Land • Multispecies kinship • Totemism

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