Artigo Revisado por pares

Outside the Hollow Log: The Didjeridu, Globalisation and Socio-Economic Contestation in Arnhem Land

2003; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 13; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5172/rsj.13.3.244

ISSN

2204-0536

Autores

Aaron Corn,

Tópico(s)

Geographies of human-animal interactions

Resumo

Enthusiasm for the didjeridu is a global phenomenon that attracts interest from players and collectors worldwide despite the many popular fallacies that circulate about this instrument and the indigenous peoples of North Australia from whose cultures it originates. In this article, I address emerging initiatives among the Yolŋu (People) of North-East Arnhem Land that respond to the rapid globalisation and commercialisation of the didjeridu in recent decades, and draw on my own ethnographic observations and participation in festivals at Barunga (1996) and Guḻkuḻa (1999, 2001–3). Ultimately, I will demonstrate how Yolŋu imperatives for these initiatives stem from hereditary beliefs and values that contemporary Yolŋu strive to uphold in the face of radical socio-cultural change.

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