‘One Hour Before Sunset’: The Loss of Indigenous Religious Knowledge
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | ‘One Hour Before Sunset’: The Loss of Indigenous Religious Knowledge - Restoring the Chain of Memory |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | James Cox; University of Edinburgh |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies; Australian Aboriginal Religions; Anthropology |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | T.G.H. Strehlow; Australian Aboriginal religions; Arrernte; insider/outsider; religious knowledge; collective memory; Alice Springs; indigenous culture |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Australian Aboriginal Religions |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | This chapter considers the judgement of T.G.H. Strehlow that the transmission of religious knowledge and with it the collective memory, had been so disrupted among the Arrernte people that, for all practical purposes, such knowledge had been irrevocably forgotten, or as he put it, disappeared into ‘oblivion’. The concerted efforts by white settlers, Government agents and missionary organisations to replace Indigenous culture with the values and practices of the colonising culture provided one of Strehlow’s chief motivations to preserve records of the rituals, ceremonies, stories, social obligations and genealogies as he found them when he began conducting research in Central Australia in 1932. He argued that the memory of ancient traditions was preserved exclusively in his notes, recordings, photographs, films and other documentation he had collected. The concluding section of the chapter asks if Strehlow was right in his conclusion and examines contrary evidence relevant for the repatriation of knowledge movement currently being implemented at the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice Springs. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 26-Mar-2018 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/27448 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.27448 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Restoring the Chain of Memory |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Australia, twentieth century |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |