‘We Don’t Want to Chase ‘Em Away’: Hauntology in Central Cape York Peninsula

Benjamin Richard Smith

doi:10.4324/9781315248646-19

‘We Don’t Want to Chase ‘Em Away’: Hauntology in Central Cape York Peninsula

Benjamin Richard Smith^*

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Abstract

At the start of his article, ‘The Past is a Doctrine of Person’, Basil Sansom employs Berdyaev’s distinction of ‘two ways of considering the past’. The first of these, the conservative standpoint, ‘harks back to the past, impl[ying] faith in tradition’ (Berdyaev 1938, 100, cited in Sansom 1988, 147). The second involves a ‘creative and transfiguring vision which integrates the past in the future and eternity and resuscitates dead things and beings’ (ibid.). According to Berdyaev, it is this standpoint alone which ‘is in harmony with the present which is inherent in the past; the first merely reflects the actual present which is always becoming the past’ (ibid.).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	189-207
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351916677
ISBN (Print)	9781315248646
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315248646-19
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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