Extinction, Inscription and the Dreaming

Exploring a Thylacine Connection

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2145135
AutoresKatie Glaskin (0000-0003-0703-0635, Discipline of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas165-185
Fecha de publicación2021-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2021.1937513
OpenAlexW3169454380
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas38

The thylacine, commonly associated with its Tasmanian extinction, also existed on the Australian mainland up until 3000–3500 years ago and is depicted in rock art sites in various locations around Australia. This lengthy period since extinction means we know little about Aboriginal Australians’ connections with this animal. This paper draws on available evidence to explore these thylacine connections. This exploration highlights the role that inscriptions, traces and narratives may play in facilitating continuing relationships with long extinct species. It also suggests that in these cosmologies, the material absence of a species does not necessarily correlate with ontological finality (of the kind generally considered central to the idea of extinction). The comparative perspective offered here complements work detailing extinction as a concept that has its own historical origins and developments, one that emerges as a specific cultural understanding about the nature of the world and its inhabitants

Archaeology · Art · Biology · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Extinction (optical mineralogy) · Geography · Mainland · Perspective (graphical) · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Paleontology · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology