Resurrecting cultures : does the Irish revival have implications for a remote Aboriginal community?
Devlin-Glass, Frances 2013, Resurrecting cultures : does the Irish revival have implications for a remote Aboriginal community?, in ISAANZ 2013 : The ends of Ireland : Proceedings of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand 2013 Australasian conference, Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, N. S. W., pp. 1-1.
Yanyuwa culture (centred on the modern town of Borroloola on the Gulf of Carpentaria) records only two long-term Irish residents of the area, but each of them contributed and one continues to contribute much to the viability and ongoing cultural vitality of the community. In the first part of the paper, their ongoing legacies will be briefly canvassed. The major part of the paper reflects on the extent to which the Irish revival has implications for Yanyuwa people’s attempts to maintain, revive and transmit their culture and the role the community’s cooption of modern media is playing in transmitting culture. The paper raises questions about a variety of postcolonial dilemmas and in particular, the role of language in that process.
Language
eng
Indigenous content
on
Field of Research
200201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies
Socio Economic Objective
970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing
HERDC Research category
E2 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed
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