| Title | On the Prowl |
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| Contributor | Yasmine Musharbash(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0361.1.06 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/living-with-monsters-ethnographic-fiction-about-real-monsters/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Yasmine Musharbash |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2023-05-11 |
| Long abstract | Justin arrives in a remote Aboriginal town for his new job. Walpa is excited, she is going to start her first job as trainee at the local, Indigenous radio station. Old Makita has seen everything before. But then, Justin’s first workday unfolds differently than he anticipated when the town has to deal with a monster attack on one of their own. Variously observed from the perspectives of a male non-Indigenous professional, a young Aboriginal woman, and a senior law man, the presences of monsters and colonisers in the town take on different meanings, clash, diverge, as well as merge. As events unfold, the parallels between monsters and colonisers come into ever clearer focus, illustrating how expectations of knowledge circulation can conflict, and cause harm. |
| Page range | pp. 81–95 |
| Print length | 15 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Yasmine Musharbash is Senior Lecturer and Head of Discipline (Anthropology) at the School of Archaeology & Anthropology at the Australian National University. She conducts participant, observation-based research with Warlpiri people in Central Australia with a particular focus on relations: among Warlpiri people on the one hand and between them and non-Indigenous people, fauna, flora, the elements, and monsters, on the other. She is the author of Yuendumu Everyday Contemporary Life in Remote Aboriginal Australia (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2008) and of a number of co-edited volumes, including two about monsters that she co-edited with GH Presterudstuen: Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters (Routledge, 2020).