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2016, Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers: Evolutionary and Ethnographic Perspectives
Based on research with Warlpiri people at the Aboriginal town of Yuendumu in Central Australia, this chapter provides ethnographic material on and analysis of an Aboriginal extended family group’s nightly play sessions, focusing on three toddlers (between 2 and 2.5 years old). These sessions happen after dinner and before the toddlers fall asleep, when family members spend the evening in the camp, socialising. All action focused on the toddlers during this time has to do with inducing and relieving fear. I relate these sessions to others described in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia and read them as part of larger processes of social learning through which Warlpiri children acquire understanding of their world and how they fit into it
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Young Indigenous children in Australia grow up in a range of cultural contexts. By sharing Indigenous stories about play, this chapter provides interesting perspectives on play that challenge conventional approaches. The Indigenous stories highlight the importance ...
Learning, Culture and Social Interaction
Everyday watching and learning in an Indigenous Australian community2017 •
In Indigenous communities around the globe, the time and space needed for the learning of language, ways of being, cultural practices and beliefs, and local history have been limited by changes brought on by formal education, modernity and globalisation. However dynamic these factors and processes may be, introduced Western institutional practices, values and expectations have nonetheless eroded the learning that occurs in the everyday environment, and schooling has reduced the time spent acquiring culturally-specific knowledge systems, languages and worldviews. Research has demonstrated that shared cultural practices and beliefs are vital for identity strengthening in Indigenous Australia. However, studies of the process of this learning and teaching remain few. Examined here are three learning events embedded in the everyday social context of a remote Aboriginal community in Australia. Based on an anthropological and art historical research project that investigated the creative, social and cultural world of an Aboriginal community, this paper focuses on community-based learning events in the quotidian environment. Revealed here are the immediate needs and desires of community members and the manner in which local-specific values, practices and knowledge are transmitted intergenerationally. We argue that these events are a key factor in identity strengthening, cultural continuity and cultural renewal.
Australian Aboriginal Studies
Traditional Games of a Timeless Land: Play Cultures in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities2009 •
Sports history in Australia has focused almost entirely on modern, Eurocentric sports and has therefore largely ignored the multitude of unique pre- European games that are, or once were, played. The area of traditional games, especially those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, is an important aspect of the cultural, social and historical experiences of Indigenous communities. These activities include customs of play that are normally not associated with European notions of competitive sport. Overall, this paper surveys research undertaken into traditional games among Indigenous Australians, as well as proposals for much needed further study in this area.
Anthropological Forum
Growing up in Central Australia: New anthropological studies of Aboriginal childhood and adolescence2013 •
This paper presents the results of a yearlong study within an Aboriginal playgroup on the outskirts of Western Sydney. Using a methodology that was collaborative and iterative and gathering data through a participant ethnographer who was herself Aboriginal, enabled a clear view of the impact of literacy strategies that were implemented in consultation with mothers and the playgroup leader. It was found that Aboriginal texts, stories, songs, and dance, arranging for children to experience various Aboriginal cultural events, as well as talking about and modeling language interactions, led to increased and regular child and child-adult literacy interactions. Longer-term impacts relating to home literacy practices and transition to school were also reported. Keywords: Australian Aboriginal, Safe Spaces, Strengthening Literacies, Disadvantage, Cultural, Linguistic and Social Capital
Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
Development of the Indigenous Child-Initiated Pretend Play Assessment: Selection of play materials and administration2011 •
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