TY - JOUR
T1 - Telling Warlpiri Dog Stories
AU - Musharbash, Yasmine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Discipline of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Western Australia.
PY - 2017/4/3
Y1 - 2017/4/3
N2 - Ostensibly about dingoes and dogs, this paper explores aspects of the contemporary social world of Warlpiri people in the camps of the central Australian settlement of Yuendumu (Northern Territory) through canines. Analyses of dog socialisation, kinds of domestication, and the roles that camp dogs perform (such as protector, family, and witness) provide insights into Warlpiri notions of moral personhood and are employed to reflect about the ethical foundations of how the oppositional categories of Yapa (self, Indigenous, Black, colonised) and Kardiya (other, non-Indigenous, ‘whitefella’, coloniser) are conceptualised.
AB - Ostensibly about dingoes and dogs, this paper explores aspects of the contemporary social world of Warlpiri people in the camps of the central Australian settlement of Yuendumu (Northern Territory) through canines. Analyses of dog socialisation, kinds of domestication, and the roles that camp dogs perform (such as protector, family, and witness) provide insights into Warlpiri notions of moral personhood and are employed to reflect about the ethical foundations of how the oppositional categories of Yapa (self, Indigenous, Black, colonised) and Kardiya (other, non-Indigenous, ‘whitefella’, coloniser) are conceptualised.
KW - Human–animal relations
KW - canines
KW - central Australia
KW - domestication
KW - settler–colonial relations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015932791&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00664677.2017.1303603
DO - 10.1080/00664677.2017.1303603
M3 - Article
SN - 0066-4677
VL - 27
SP - 95
EP - 113
JO - Anthropological Forum
JF - Anthropological Forum
IS - 2
ER -