Yarning up oral history: An Indigenous feminist analysis

Title
Yarning up oral history: An Indigenous feminist analysis
Publication Date
2018
Author(s)
Anderson, Sue
Hamilton, Jaimee
Barker, Lorina L
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6483-5523
Email: lbarker3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lbarker3
Editor
Editor(s): Katrina Srigley, Stacey Zembrzycki and Franca Iacovetta
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
London, United Kingdom
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/29158
Abstract
Yarning, a form of storytelling, is a significant feature of knowledge transmission within Australian Indigenous cultures, particularly between women and children. Children learn through yarning and observation of their environment. A yarning culture practiced for tens of thousands of years has ensured that the art of listening and telling was, and continues to be, embedded within the Australian Aboriginal female psyche. Oral history methodologies hold many commonalities with the yarning that is so deeply rooted in Indigenous culture. For example, both involve a narrative shared between people in an intimate environment and the protocols of trust, reciprocity, and respect. In this chapter, we explore the relationship between Indigenous yarning and oral history theory and practice through the lived experience of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women.
Link
Citation
Beyond Women's Words: Feminism and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century, p. 170-183
ISBN
9781351123822
9780815357711
9780815357681
Start page
170
End page
183

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