Reflexive Ethnographic Practice: Three Generations of Social Researchers in One Place

The start of a story

Collaboration and change

Our approach to the book

Yanyuwa families, country and Law

On becoming reflexive

Overview

Introduction

Living on the edge: Suffering and loss

Field notes and reflections: Transitioning into the academy

Writing of knowledge

Songs, stories and relationships

Knowing loss and finding words

Final thoughts

Contributor Response, by Philip Adgemis

References

Introduction

What do I know?

How did this happen?

Mobility of mind: Epistemic habit in the context of fieldwork encounters

Sustained ethnographic encounters as acts of testimony and witnessing

Did I always know?

Why have Yanyuwa taught me?

Am I permitted to know an Indigenous epistemology in a settler colonial context?

Final thoughts

Contributor Response, by John Bradley

References 

Introduction and orientation

Changes, shifts and paradoxes

On the road to Borroloola

Getting lost: The idea of a map

Moving in from the edges

Art as ways to express

Creased maps and field jottings

Jijijirla that comes around again

Country and loss

Publishing and what next?

Contributor Response, by Liam Brady

References

Introduction

Carpentaria's unexpectedness

The many strands that make up Carpentaria

Reading Wright's Rainbow Serpent

Final reflection

Contributor Response, by Amanda Kearney

References

Introduction

Reflexivity in archaeology practice

Archaeology and the southwest Gulf country

Research questions and entering the field

Looking for a donkey

Kurrmurrnyini and sorcery rock art

Discussion and final thoughts

Contributor Response, by Nona Cameron

References 

Introduction

Realisations and motivations

Discourse and deficit framings: 'Some people just hate us'

Expectations and intersubjective connections

Change and the shame in not knowing

Reflections

References