In 'Seasonality and schismogenesis', social anthropologist #ThomasWidlok draws on longterm fieldwork with Hai//om people of northern Namibia, envisaging an ‘indigenous critique’ of two key themes: oscillatory switches framed by seasonality, and ‘schismogenesis’. He calls these ‘doing seasons’ and ‘doing difference’. Doing seasons without ‘unruly switching’, Hai//om indigenous voice critiques the structuralist/dualist seasonal perspective in #TheDawnofEverything ‘coloured by agricultural folks in the high latitude zones’. Life histories collected from Hai//om seniors also provide the opposite of ‘doing difference’ – that is, ‘undoing difference’, when they describe living with !Xû neighbours as ‘children of one woman’.
#anthropology #schismogenesis #Hai//om #Namibia #indigenousvoice
https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.5
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-australia-67100354
Omfg. Once again, flawed logic, disinformation, and outright malice rule. What a disgusting display of continued subjugation. I guess the lesson is: never underestimate the allure of actively ignoring an obvious inequity in favor of maintaining the status quo. FVCK!
#FirstPeoples #IndigenousVoice #indigenousPeoples #decolonization
Colonizers gotta be colonizers, I guess.
#Australians reject historic #IndigenousVoice referendum
#Australia was, in some periods of its history, renowned for being resistant to bullshit and lies.
I had hoped today we would come together and #VoteYes to show ourselves better than the torrent of fear, racism, small-minded hatred, and sheer dismissal of Indigenous people.
We failed today, and I'm sorry. I hope we can prove better soon.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: Tomorrow we will need to find a new way forward.
Andy Tseng
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