The Mutability of Time and Space as a Means of Healing History in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Robert Paton

doi:10.22459/LHDT.05.2015.04

The Mutability of Time and Space as a Means of Healing History in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Robert Paton

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Abstract

How time and space are imagined by Aboriginal people is as sophisticated as it is varied. My intention here is simply to look at a case study from the Top End of the Northern Territory, showing how one group imagine its time and space. Through a detailed example, I will show how the gravity of one very hurtful event involving several deaths was perceived by the Aboriginal community, and how they came to resolve it by engaging the inherent mutability of secular time and space in order to rewrite the past.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Long History, Deep Time Deepening Histories of place
Editors	Ann McGrath; Mary Anne Jebb
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	ANU Press
Pages	67-82
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9781925022520-
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22459/LHDT.05.2015.04
Publication status	Published - 2015

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