Cosmo-political landscapes of Torres Strait adhi and misœri stones: Closing the gap between Islander and non-indigenous perspectives

IF 1.1 3区 历史学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2023-01-05 DOI:10.1002/arco.5281
Rod Mitchell, Friedrich von Gnielinski, Josh Willsher, McRose Elu, Duncan Wright
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Torres Strait (TS), on Australia's north-east border, has a long history of research on pœrapœral kulal: powerful stones. Pœrapœral kulal contain vital power from site-of-origin and therefore their movement across the Coral-Arafura Sea corridor provides important information about past and present human relationships (Elu 2004). With few exceptions Western models draw on anthropological, linguistic and site origin research collated by a Cambridge University field team over 100 years ago, with little detailed reassessment of stone raw material and distribution or geological and archaeological surveys conducted within the intervening period. It is also unclear how TS Islanders engage with this literature, particularly the many communities poorly represented by 19th-century studies. In this paper, we test several assumptions influencing recent literature from contemporary islander and non-indigenous perspectives. This includes assessing whether: (a) western scholarship models oversimplify terminology and discussion; (b) early geological assessments of substantive movement of stones is correct; and (c) movement of exotic stones was a common feature across TS. Finally, using detailed cultural, archaeology, geology, and language data sets we reinterpret the regionally-varying role and antiquity of pœrapœral kulal within this animate cosmo-political land and seascape.

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托雷斯海峡adhi和misœri石头的宇宙政治景观:缩小岛民和非土著人观点之间的差距
澳大利亚东北边境的托雷斯海峡(TS)对pœrapœral kulal(强大的石头)有着悠久的研究历史。Pœrapœral库拉尔蕴含着来自原产地的重要力量,因此它们穿越珊瑚-阿拉弗拉海走廊的运动提供了过去和现在人类关系的重要信息(Elu 2004)。除了少数例外,西方模型借鉴了100多年前剑桥大学一个实地小组整理的人类学、语言学和遗址起源研究,很少对石头原材料和分布进行详细的重新评估,也很少对其间进行的地质和考古调查进行评估。目前还不清楚TS岛民是如何参与这些文献的,尤其是那些在19世纪的研究中没有得到充分代表的社区。在本文中,我们从当代岛民和非土著视角检验了影响近期文学的几个假设。这包括评估:(a)西方学术模式是否过度简化了术语和讨论;(b)对石头实质性移动的早期地质评估是正确的;最后,利用详细的文化、考古、地质和语言数据集,我们重新解释了pœrapœral kulal在这片充满活力的世界政治土地和海景中的区域变化作用和古代。
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期刊介绍: Archaeology in Oceania is published online and in print versions three times a year: April, July, October. It accepts articles and research reports in prehistoric and historical archaeology, modern material culture and human biology of ancient and modern human populations. Its primary geographic focus is Australia, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and lands of the western Pacific rim. All articles and research reports accepted as being within the remit of the journal and of appropriate standard will be reviewed by two scholars; authors will be informed of these comments though not necessarily of the reviewer’s names.
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