| Titre | La terre, ma chair (Australie) | |
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| Auteur | Barbara Glowczewski-Barker | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 127-128, 1992 La terre et le Pacifique | |
| Page | 89-105 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Earth, My Flesh (Australia)
For Australian Aborigines, the claim to traditional attachments has become the symbol of a sense of individual, community and national identity. Ancestral territorial rights were governed by complex systems, wherein the social organization was linked to itineraries and sacred sites associated with the travels of mythical beings. Today, heated debate is taking place about the legitimacy of lines of descent (matri-, patri- or bilateral). It is hypothesized that this conflict is part of the construction of an identity wherein heterogeneous memberships in local groups, with their linguistic differences, constitute the very condition of Aboriginality. A single place still serves as the pretext for parallel discourses, which differ depending on the context and on the speaker' s place of reference and gender. Changes imposed by colonists or administrators, like variations in population and climate during the past, may be expressed through innovations in ceremonies or myths that have territorial applications. These innovations lie at the very center of the traditional process for updating local identities, wherein body and spirit are intricately related through a sort of image, trace or mark. These signs of the past are a virtual memory of the cosmos, wherein the earth is, like the flesh, a form of inscription. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1992_num_127_1_3382 |
