Fieldnotes & Footnotes: Anthropological Methods: an excerpt from the...
Fieldwork photo (2009) It becomes less genealogical in the latter half of the excerpt, I promise! Methodology (or ‘Time spent living with my adoptive Yolŋu family in camp’) [ . . . ] My...
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“It looks rather odd to the poet, however, to see whole shoals of students who neither want to write poetry nor to know how it is written, being solemnly taught how to take a poem to pieces, but...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Bitjan bili rrambaŋi, yaka gäna: a rambling story...
Fieldwork photo (2008): yapa waiting around in town Bitjan bili rrambaŋi, yaka gäna, is something of a Yolŋu refrain, which translates as something like, ‘always together/close/level/at one, not...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: One string, two things, three stwings, four.
I’ve been practicing playing with practicing this beautiful semi-acoustic bass guitar. My logic was something along the lines of, ‘four strings, surely easier than six.’ Not so. I cannot even hold a...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Poetry Turnstile: Frank O’Hara
Frank O’Hara and Grace Hartigan† Frank O’Hara (1926 – 1966) was an American poet and writer, who I discovered only recently. I couldn’t decide which of his poems to share, so after a series of...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Reading #18: vlog series of incremental readings...
Reading #18, pp. 57-60 Ends p. 60 @’ . . . Philip Grierson, who in the 70s, first suggested that money might first have emerged from early legal practice.’ Find all readings to date …...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Rest in Peace Kwementyaye Briscoe
This is an especially long post. It details the circumstances surrounding, and leading up to the death in custody of Kwementyaye Briscoe. Kwementyaye Daniel Briscoe was only 27 years of age when he...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: A lover’ly little poem by Maria Wine
Artur & Maria, second and third from the left (c. 1947) I am re-posting this poem from some time ago. I thought of it this morning, and I think it’s beautiful. I found it in a second-hand...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Calamity is not an honorific APPARENTLY
Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir I went to the radiologist for a cortisone injection yesterday. I have a sore foot. T’was administered under the guidance of an ultrasound, though...
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