Conversations on the Frontier
Finding the Dialogic in Nineteenth-century Anthropological Archives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason M Gibson (0000-0001-8254-587X, Deakin University, corresponding author), Helen Gardner (0000-0002-3717-0535, Deakin University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Pages | 47-65 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbz024 |
| OpenAlex | W2953692207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 21 |
While anthropological archives tend to be named after the collector of the material, they are often the product of conversations and long-term engagements with informants. Focusing on the concept of the dialogic, this article contends that these materials ought to be equally conceived as co-productions, often made via complex, asymmetrical researcher/researched engagements. We specifically home in on the dialogic traces left in the archive of the nineteenth century Australian ethnographer A. W. Howitt and his various conversations with an Aboriginal man named Ienbin. We argue that by being attentive to the dialogic aspects of ethnographic sources we can recognize that the Indigenous or anthropological knowledge contained within them is to a significant degree co-constructed in as much as it emerges from social encounter and interaction. More than merely acknowledging the agency of Indigenous informants we propose a more dynamic reading of these texts as products of discursive interactions and shifting relationships
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Archaeology · Art · Dialogic · Ethnography · Frontier · Indigenous · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Reading (process) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
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Language, History and Anthropology
Roving Mariners
Resource Managers
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The Jeraeil, or Initiation Ceremonies of the Kurnai Tribe
Selections From the Letters of Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt to Lewis Henry Morgan
On Some Australian Ceremonies of Initiation
The Cunning of Recognition
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation
Japan, Global History, and the Great Silence
The Anthropologist as Tribal Elder
The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology
Imagining the Antipodes
The Descent of Morgan in Australia
After Tylor
Constraints on Knowledge in an Economy of Oral Information
Who taught Marx, Engels and Morgan about Australian aborigines
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |