U Eickelkamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 11838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | U Eickelkamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | U |
| FAMILY NAME | Eickelkamp |
| SIGNATURE | EICKELKAMP U |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5737-9427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Translating the field
Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey of translation—as do their interlocutors. Translation—of words, tone of voice, gestures, facial expressi…
Dust
Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human-Water Relationships
I explore by way of a thought experiment the temporality of waterways in the context of restorative art interventions. As a substance that moves and gives form, and as a medium that retains and discharges, connects and divides, water that flows can make tangible the experiential flow of return and anticipation. Arguably, this bi-directional structuring of time is pivotal to transformative and reparative action. If restoration means 'going back' t…
Water Futures in Australia: Materialities, Temporalities, Imaginaries
This special issue is part of a shift in social science and humanities thinking and in public awareness towards planetary water concerns. As societal and scholarly attention to the wet element - and its political import and its cultural constitution - is growing, we ask, how can we rethink our relationships with water in Australia now and into the future? The collection of papers in this issue shows that water responds to human practices which in…
Growing Up in Central Australia: New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities – roughly 1,200 across…
Introducing Oceanic Societies in Covid ‐19
The Oceanic region sustains the lowest number of coronavirus infections worldwide, with Pacific Island Countries and Territories registering 3,057 COVID-19 cases as of 8 September 2020, Australia counting 26,651 and Aotearoa/New Zealand 1,797—a small fraction of the 28,789.698 reported cases across the globe (but disregarding the 260,000 cases in the Philippines not covered here). Yet as the reports, letters, discussions, poems and photo essays i…
Ninu, Grandmother's Law: The Autobiography of Nura Nungalka Ward
Emplacing Christ: An Indigenous Australian Ethics of Placemaking Across Borders
Travelling from my old heimat, Germany, I joined in September 2015 a group of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Bible translators on a two-week long pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This journey offered further probing into Anangu attachments to place that, until then, I had only known through ethnographic research in their desert homelands in northern South Australia. In the present article, I explore how and why the Anangu Christians forged links with biblical…
Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa - By David Brooks and Darren Jorgensen
Finding spirit: Ontological monism in an Australian Aboriginal desert world today
Anthropology's philosophical interests of late invite reflection on subject-object relationships under duress. I suggest herein lies an opportunity to recover and engage through the prism of ethnography the heritage of modern philosophies of mind and nature. Taking tentative steps in that direction I venture to discern epistemic alignments between the self-world relationship as envisaged by the Aṉangu living at Pukatja in the eastern part of Aust…
Remembering the Future: Warlpiri Lives Through the Prism of Drawing
Dingo, Monster, Rabbit, “I: Personal and Cultural Meanings in Sand Stories by a Young Girl, Central Australia
The unified experience of culture and self appears writ large in children’s play stories, appearing in the inseparability of the interpersonal and intrapsychic. Through the ethnographic analysis of five sand stories (graphically illustrated play narratives) by a young Aṉangu girl in Central Australia, this essay illustrates the significance of spontaneous meaning making within the process of the acquisition of the collective symbolic system. Cult…
Agency and structure in the life-world of Aboriginal children in Central Australia
Changing Selves in Remote Australia? Observations on Aboriginal Family Life, Childhood and 'Modernisation
The idea of modernity is increasingly called upon to describe and understand change in Indigenous societies, replacing the older paradigms of colonisation, culture change and the short-lived misnomer hybridity. This paper problematises such an approach in the field of Australian Aboriginal Studies, with special attention to the question of whether individualisation and individualism are real phenomena in Aboriginal life-worlds, or else what kind …
Children and Youth in Aboriginal Australia: An Overview of the Literature
The following overview of the existing literature relating to Aboriginal childhood and adolescence across Australia is intended to support the development of this potentially strong interdisciplinary research field. It presents a select number of works in historical context, concluding with critical comments and supplemented by additional references presented according to type of study. No claim is made to have covered the literature exhaustively
‘Inscribing’ Freud: A Critical Review of Celia Brickman's Aboriginal Populations in the Mind
Working through the particular book under review, this essay seeks to demonstrate how certain entrenched positions in postcolonial feminist writings on psychoanalysis are unproductive. Instead of advancing knowledge and understanding of the human psyche, of society or of therapeutic technique, ideas in the human sciences and psychoanalysis are shown to be appropriated and distorted in order to sustain an academic self‐referential circuitry. The c…
Egos and Ogres: Aspects of Psychosexual Development and Cannibalistic Demons in Central Australia
The paper explores from a psychoanalytic point of view some of the many ethnographic references to cannibalistic figures in Aboriginal societies of the Central and Western parts of Australia. The purpose is to show how dynamics of splitting originating in early infancy (love‐aggression, incorporation‐expulsion, inside‐outside, self‐other) continue to exist in culture‐specific expressions of cannibalistic fantasies and incestuous desires
Mapitjakuna —Shall I Go Away From Myself Towards You? Being‐with and Looking‐at Across Cultural Divides
Anthropologists increasingly express links between individuals or collectivities through the discursively convenient prefix ‘‐inter’; inter‐personal, inter‐subjective, inter‐cultural, inter‐textual. However, attempts to describe the psychodynamics that effect the linkings that are integral to human social experience have not held pace. I want to suggest that a regard for the ontogenetic primary forms of encounter—looking, eating, playing—can subs…
Children and Youth in Aboriginal Australia: An Overview of the Literature
The following overview of the existing literature relating to Aboriginal childhood and adolescence across Australia is intended to support the development of this potentially strong interdisciplinary research field. It presents a select number of works in historical context, concluding with critical comments and supplemented by additional references presented according to type of study. No claim is made to have covered the literature exhaustively
Finding spirit: Ontological monism in an Australian Aboriginal desert world today
Anthropology's philosophical interests of late invite reflection on subject-object relationships under duress. I suggest herein lies an opportunity to recover and engage through the prism of ethnography the heritage of modern philosophies of mind and nature. Taking tentative steps in that direction I venture to discern epistemic alignments between the self-world relationship as envisaged by the Aṉangu living at Pukatja in the eastern part of Aust…
Changing Selves in Remote Australia? Observations on Aboriginal Family Life, Childhood and 'Modernisation
The idea of modernity is increasingly called upon to describe and understand change in Indigenous societies, replacing the older paradigms of colonisation, culture change and the short-lived misnomer hybridity. This paper problematises such an approach in the field of Australian Aboriginal Studies, with special attention to the question of whether individualisation and individualism are real phenomena in Aboriginal life-worlds, or else what kind …
Dingo, Monster, Rabbit, “I: Personal and Cultural Meanings in Sand Stories by a Young Girl, Central Australia
The unified experience of culture and self appears writ large in children’s play stories, appearing in the inseparability of the interpersonal and intrapsychic. Through the ethnographic analysis of five sand stories (graphically illustrated play narratives) by a young Aṉangu girl in Central Australia, this essay illustrates the significance of spontaneous meaning making within the process of the acquisition of the collective symbolic system. Cult…
Mapitjakuna —Shall I Go Away From Myself Towards You? Being‐with and Looking‐at Across Cultural Divides
Anthropologists increasingly express links between individuals or collectivities through the discursively convenient prefix ‘‐inter’; inter‐personal, inter‐subjective, inter‐cultural, inter‐textual. However, attempts to describe the psychodynamics that effect the linkings that are integral to human social experience have not held pace. I want to suggest that a regard for the ontogenetic primary forms of encounter—looking, eating, playing—can subs…
Egos and Ogres: Aspects of Psychosexual Development and Cannibalistic Demons in Central Australia
The paper explores from a psychoanalytic point of view some of the many ethnographic references to cannibalistic figures in Aboriginal societies of the Central and Western parts of Australia. The purpose is to show how dynamics of splitting originating in early infancy (love‐aggression, incorporation‐expulsion, inside‐outside, self‐other) continue to exist in culture‐specific expressions of cannibalistic fantasies and incestuous desires
‘Inscribing’ Freud: A Critical Review of Celia Brickman's Aboriginal Populations in the Mind
Working through the particular book under review, this essay seeks to demonstrate how certain entrenched positions in postcolonial feminist writings on psychoanalysis are unproductive. Instead of advancing knowledge and understanding of the human psyche, of society or of therapeutic technique, ideas in the human sciences and psychoanalysis are shown to be appropriated and distorted in order to sustain an academic self‐referential circuitry. The c…
Children and Youth in Aboriginal Australia: An Overview of the Literature
The following overview of the existing literature relating to Aboriginal childhood and adolescence across Australia is intended to support the development of this potentially strong interdisciplinary research field. It presents a select number of works in historical context, concluding with critical comments and supplemented by additional references presented according to type of study. No claim is made to have covered the literature exhaustively
Agency and structure in the life-world of Aboriginal children in Central Australia
Changing Selves in Remote Australia? Observations on Aboriginal Family Life, Childhood and 'Modernisation
The idea of modernity is increasingly called upon to describe and understand change in Indigenous societies, replacing the older paradigms of colonisation, culture change and the short-lived misnomer hybridity. This paper problematises such an approach in the field of Australian Aboriginal Studies, with special attention to the question of whether individualisation and individualism are real phenomena in Aboriginal life-worlds, or else what kind …
Dingo, Monster, Rabbit, “I: Personal and Cultural Meanings in Sand Stories by a Young Girl, Central Australia
The unified experience of culture and self appears writ large in children’s play stories, appearing in the inseparability of the interpersonal and intrapsychic. Through the ethnographic analysis of five sand stories (graphically illustrated play narratives) by a young Aṉangu girl in Central Australia, this essay illustrates the significance of spontaneous meaning making within the process of the acquisition of the collective symbolic system. Cult…
Remembering the Future: Warlpiri Lives Through the Prism of Drawing
Finding spirit: Ontological monism in an Australian Aboriginal desert world today
Anthropology's philosophical interests of late invite reflection on subject-object relationships under duress. I suggest herein lies an opportunity to recover and engage through the prism of ethnography the heritage of modern philosophies of mind and nature. Taking tentative steps in that direction I venture to discern epistemic alignments between the self-world relationship as envisaged by the Aṉangu living at Pukatja in the eastern part of Aust…
Emplacing Christ: An Indigenous Australian Ethics of Placemaking Across Borders
Travelling from my old heimat, Germany, I joined in September 2015 a group of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Bible translators on a two-week long pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This journey offered further probing into Anangu attachments to place that, until then, I had only known through ethnographic research in their desert homelands in northern South Australia. In the present article, I explore how and why the Anangu Christians forged links with biblical…
Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa - By David Brooks and Darren Jorgensen
Introducing Oceanic Societies in Covid ‐19
The Oceanic region sustains the lowest number of coronavirus infections worldwide, with Pacific Island Countries and Territories registering 3,057 COVID-19 cases as of 8 September 2020, Australia counting 26,651 and Aotearoa/New Zealand 1,797—a small fraction of the 28,789.698 reported cases across the globe (but disregarding the 260,000 cases in the Philippines not covered here). Yet as the reports, letters, discussions, poems and photo essays i…
Ninu, Grandmother's Law: The Autobiography of Nura Nungalka Ward
Growing Up in Central Australia: New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region. Focusing on the remote communities – roughly 1,200 across…
Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human-Water Relationships
I explore by way of a thought experiment the temporality of waterways in the context of restorative art interventions. As a substance that moves and gives form, and as a medium that retains and discharges, connects and divides, water that flows can make tangible the experiential flow of return and anticipation. Arguably, this bi-directional structuring of time is pivotal to transformative and reparative action. If restoration means 'going back' t…
Water Futures in Australia: Materialities, Temporalities, Imaginaries
This special issue is part of a shift in social science and humanities thinking and in public awareness towards planetary water concerns. As societal and scholarly attention to the wet element - and its political import and its cultural constitution - is growing, we ask, how can we rethink our relationships with water in Australia now and into the future? The collection of papers in this issue shows that water responds to human practices which in…
Dust
Translating the field
Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey of translation—as do their interlocutors. Translation—of words, tone of voice, gestures, facial expressi…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Law (5 works)