Abstract

Drawing on my field experience in Indigenous communities in the Top End of the Northern Territory, in this presentation I compare and contrast indigenous ideas of the cruel, the cheeky and the dangerous, and draw a distinction between what I call `permeable’ versus `categorical’ ways of making relationships. From my observations across generations, I will suggest that the former has continued to give way to something more like the latter. These people, always keen observers of difference, have over time adopted more categorical ways of making ‘racial’ distinctions between self and non-indigenous others. Discussion of this will involve brief exemplification and characterization of relatedness, indigenous-style, and its changing `dynamics of difference’.

S2 2016 Series Speakers

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Date                  Speaker
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Jul 27          Jane Ferguson
Aug 3          Alison Witchard
Aug 10        Hans Baer
Aug 17        Simone Dennis
Aug 24        Debra McDougall
Aug 26        Michael Hertzfeld
Aug 31        Robbie Peters
Sep 21         Zazie Bowen
Oct 5           Jennifer Alexander and Shun Deng Fam
Oct 12         Bonnie McConnell
Oct 19         Francesca Merlan
Oct 26         Catherine Earl
Nov 2          Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen
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