Gurindji Journey : A Japanese Historian in the Outback
by Hokari, MinoruFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-06-30
Publisher(s): Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Summary
After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view.
Table of Contents
| A supervisor's reflections | p. 1 |
| A conversation with Minoru Hokari | p. 12 |
| Being connected with Minoru | p. 23 |
| Introduction to the Japanese edition Translated | p. 30 |
| Author's preface | p. 64 |
| Author's acknowledgments | p. 66 |
| Yuki Hokari's acknowledgments | p. 69 |
| What Am I Doing in Australia? | p. 73 |
| Way to the Gurindji country | p. 73 |
| The Gurindji country | p. 76 |
| Meeting Old Jimmy Mangayarri | p. 79 |
| Living with the Gurindji people | p. 80 |
| Cross-cultural positioning | p. 83 |
| Writing a book | p. 86 |
| Maintaining History | p. 89 |
| Body for paying attention to the world | p. 90 |
| Body for practising history | p. 92 |
| What is in the world? | p. 94 |
| Dreaming (1): Origin of the world | p. 96 |
| Dreaming (2): History of maintaining the world | p. 97 |
| Mobility: Relationship between body and the world | p. 99 |
| Where is home? What is home? | p. 100 |
| Dreaming (3): Ethics of spatial movement | p. 102 |
| A web of connection without a centre | p. 104 |
| An open and flexible system of knowledge | p. 106 |
| Temporality and the Gurindji epistemology | p. 108 |
| What is the Gurindji people's historical practice? | p. 110 |
| Place-Oriented History | p. 113 |
| Time and space, history and landscape | p. 114 |
| Landscape and morality | p. 116 |
| 'Follow the right way' | p. 118 |
| How do you follow the right way? | p. 121 |
| Which way did Captain Cook come? | p. 125 |
| Old Jimmy's moral map of the world nations | p. 129 |
| Place-oriented history | p. 131 |
| Where did the English law come from? | p. 134 |
| Jacky Pantamarra | p. 136 |
| An Englishman in Australia before Captain Cook? | p. 137 |
| Jacky Pantamarra was bred from a 'monkey' | p. 139 |
| Jacky Pantamarra let Captain Cook colonise Australia | p. 143 |
| Jacky Pantamarra's way of living | p. 145 |
| All bad ideas come from Jacky Pantamarra | p. 147 |
| Ways of sharing the difference | p. 148 |
| Kartiya from monkeys, ngumpin from Dreaming | p. 149 |
| Stories from the Top End? | p. 150 |
| Making of the Europeans | p. 153 |
| Methodology of Dreaming | p. 155 |
| Wave Hill Station | p. 160 |
| 'Biggest mistake' | p. 160 |
| 'Shoot 'em time' | p. 163 |
| Blackfella Knob and Seale Gorge Cave | p. 164 |
| 'No more shooting, work for kartiya' | p. 166 |
| Conflicts and fights | p. 168 |
| Mystery of 'Leichhardt' killed at Wattie Creek | p. 169 |
| Mystery of the rebel, 'Major' | p. 170 |
| Historical reality of Gurindji's Major | p. 173 |
| 'Earth punish kartiya, too' | p. 177 |
| Cattle, Dreaming and Country | p. 180 |
| 'Japarta buluki-waji' | p. 180 |
| The question of cattle killings | p. 181 |
| Stockwork | p. 184 |
| 'All history man gone' | p. 186 |
| Kaya | p. 187 |
| Mungamunga and karrkan | p. 189 |
| Wave Hill flood and Dreaming | p. 189 |
| Tinker's escape | p. 192 |
| Walkabout economy | p. 194 |
| Food supply and ceremonies | p. 196 |
| The Gurindji Walk-Off | p. 199 |
| Rethinking the Gurindji walk-off | p. 199 |
| The Unlucky Australians | p. 201 |
| Other academic studies | p. 203 |
| 'Wish we had someone behind us' | p. 204 |
| Sandy Moray | p. 206 |
| The Gurindji network system | p. 210 |
| JFK visited Wave Hill: International network | p. 212 |
| Historic meeting at Darwin hospital | p. 214 |
| Was it a strike? | p. 215 |
| From station to welfare settlement | p. 219 |
| Reactions of non-Gurindji Aboriginal people | p. 220 |
| Establishment of the Daguragu Community | p. 223 |
| From Wattie Creek to Wattie Creek | p. 225 |
| From illegal occupancy to legal freehold | p. 226 |
| Running the cattle station: Postcolonial dynamics | p. 228 |
| Political context of oral history | p. 229 |
| What was the Gurindji walk-off? | p. 230 |
| 'New Generation' | p. 231 |
| 'Hungry time' | p. 233 |
| (Not) visiting Jimparrak | p. 233 |
| 'Happy time', 'citizen time' | p. 235 |
| Strong law | p. 236 |
| Grog comin' up | p. 237 |
| Young people and their prospects | p. 238 |
| Cultural positioning of cattle | p. 240 |
| For Theory Lovers Only (If You are Not, Please Skip to the Next Chapter) | p. 243 |
| Brief history of Aboriginal historiography | p. 244 |
| Postmodernism, myths and memory | p. 249 |
| Localised history | p. 251 |
| Post-secular history | p. 254 |
| Cross-culturalising history | p. 258 |
| Experiential historical truthfulness | p. 262 |
| Chill Out: But the Journey Never Ends | p. 265 |
| Feedback from the Gurindji people | p. 266 |
| Presentation and reaction | p. 266 |
| Did I do a good job? | p. 268 |
| Place-time and history | p. 268 |
| Performing histories | p. 271 |
| Notes | p. 274 |
| Bibliography | p. 287 |
| Index | p. 302 |
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