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The returns of recognition: Ngarinyin experiences of native title, encounter and indeterminacy in the Kimberley region of Northern Australia
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posted on 2018-11-01, 00:00 authored by Cameo DalleyThis article explores a contemporary politics of recognition as it relates to Ngarinyin Aboriginal people of the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. I focus on the reflections and experiences of a Ngarinyin man, ‘the Alchemist’, who was involved in a native title claim across the region during the 2000s. Through ethnographic examples drawn from along the Gibb River Road, I show that time on country is animated by unexpected encounters imbued with interpersonal recognition and indeterminacy. These encounters involve non-Aboriginal people (including tourists) and non-human animals: allies who are co-opted at a time when people's intimate knowledge of country is becoming further attenuated. This article contributes to a growing literature on Aboriginal people's perceptions of and experiences in country in post-native title contexts.
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OceaniaVolume
88Issue
3Season
Special Issue: Shifting Indigenous Australian Realities: Dispersal, Damage, and ResurgencePagination
360 - 376Publisher
WileyLocation
Chichester, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0029-8077eISSN
1834-4461Language
engPublication classification
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