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'For nearly four decades, Ian Keen has been an important, challenging, and engaging presence in Australian anthropology. Beginning with his PhD research in the mid-1970s and through to the present, he has been a leading scholar of Yolngu society and culture, and has made lasting contributions to a range of debates. His scholarly productivity, however, has never been limited to the Yolngu, and he has conducted research and published widely on many other facets of Australian Aboriginal society: on Aboriginal culture in ‘settled’ Australia; comparative historical work on Aboriginal societies at the threshold of colonisation; a continuing interest in kinship; ongoing writing on language and society; and a set of significant land claims across the continent. In this volume of essays in his honour, a group of Keen’s former students and current colleagues celebrate the diversity of his scholarly interests and his inspiring influence as a mentor and a friend, with contributions ranging across language structure, meaning, and use; the post-colonial engagement of Aboriginal Australians with the ideas and structures of ‘mainstream’ society; ambiguity and indeterminacy in Aboriginal symbolic systems and ritual practices; and many other interconnected themes, each of which represents a string that he has woven into the rich tapestry of his scholarly work.' (Source: Publishers website)
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Contents
- Introduction : Strings of Connectedness in Ian Keen's Scholarship, single work criticism (p. 1-25)
- Judicial Understandings of Aboriginality and Language Use in Criminal Cases, single work criticism (p. 26-51)
- Change and Succession in Australian Aboriginal Claims to Land, single work criticism (p. 52-73)
- From Skills to Stories: Land Rights, Life Histories and the Terms of Engagement, single work criticism (p. 75-99)
- Conceptual Dynamism and Ambiguity in Marrangu Djinang Cosmology, North-Central Arnhem Land, single work criticism (p. 101-117)
- Bakhtin’s Theory of the Utterance and Dhalwangu Manikay, single work criticism (p. 161-186)
- The Language of ‘Spiritual Power’ : From Mana to Märr on the Crocodile Islands, single work criticism (p. 235-261)
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[Review] Strings of Connectedness : Essays in Honour of Ian Keen
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 40 no. 2016; (p. 355-357)
— Review of Strings of Connectedness : Essays in Honour of Ian Keen 2015 selected work criticism
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[Review] Strings of Connectedness : Essays in Honour of Ian Keen
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 40 no. 2016; (p. 355-357)
— Review of Strings of Connectedness : Essays in Honour of Ian Keen 2015 selected work criticism