This article focuses on leadership by women in Indigenous research in the higher education sector of Australia. The research that provided the context for this exploration of Indigenous women’s leadership involved archiving ceremonial cultural knowledge from the Daly and Wagait regions of the Northern Territory. The article introduces the concept of Aboriginal corporeality and the struggle within colonial Australia and through to the present to prevent its erasure from Australia’s history. This struggle is referenced in the paradigm shifts underway in Indigenist research. The article acknowledges the past commitments of powerful Aboriginal women to the advancement of their clans’ people under the new circumstances that they had to confront from the 1880s. It is argued that the cultural agenda of these women prepared the ground for the advances in Indigenist research reported in this article. The article concludes with an example of the close, culturally significant partnership that was forged by the research project across two Aboriginal communities of the Northern Territory.

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重新塑造原住民在高等教育中的领导地位——一种新的原住民研究范式

本文重点介绍澳大利亚高等教育部门土著研究中女性的领导作用。为探索原住民女性领导力提供背景的研究涉及归档来自北领地戴利和瓦盖特地区的礼仪文化知识。文章介绍了原住民肉体的概念，以及澳大利亚殖民地内部一直以来为防止其从澳大利亚历史上抹去而进行的斗争。这种斗争在本土主义研究中正在进行的范式转变中被引用。这篇文章承认了在 1880 年代她们不得不面对的新情况下，有权势的土著妇女过去对提高其氏族人民的地位的承诺。有人认为，这些妇女的文化议程为本文报道的土著研究进展奠定了基础。本文最后举了一个例子，说明该研究项目在北领地的两个土著社区之间建立了密切的、具有重要文化意义的伙伴关系。