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To Dance with Time: A Victoria River Aboriginal Study.
- Source :
- Australian Journal of Anthropology; 2000, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p287, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- Drawing on research with Aboriginal people in the Victoria River District of Australia, this paper explores time in patterns of motion and pause. Taking Cath Ellis's insight that some Aboriginal musicians possess a faculty of 'perfect time', and that the meshing of rhythms and other patterns in music has the effect of altering perceptions and understandings of time, I explore rhythmic patterns in four domains--nomadology, ecology, dance and cosmology. I suggest that the cosmogonic and temporal effects of rhythm in motion are capable of becoming performative events because they link the rhythms of ecological, social and ritual domains. Such events implicate the ephemeral motion and temporality of the world in a continuing flow of becoming, and implicate the continuity of flow in the actions of the ephemeral. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ABORIGINAL Australians
ETHNOLOGY
SOCIETIES
TIME
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10358811
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Australian Journal of Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 3762259
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.2000.tb00044.x