This paper considers themes of species maintenance and place engagement in Yanyuwa country, northern Australia. It traces the complexity of interpretations and relational contexts involved in places that are commonly – and we argue – misleadingly, referred to as increase and magic sites. Examining one specific place, at which people carry out maintenance rituals, we explore the complex bonds that unite Yanyuwa with the geography that is the Ancestral Hill Kangaroo. Not content with the classificatory habit of declaring actions either increase oriented or hunting magic, this research more fully explicates the relational substance of places that play a key role in ecological health. This is achieved by asking how might the profundity of a place of relational importance, such as a maintenance site, be better understood and written of in ways that convey an Indigenous ontology and epistemology?

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北澳大利亚的亲缘生态，物种维护和场所的关系力量

本文考虑了澳大利亚北部Yanyuwa国家的物种维护和场所参与的主题。它追溯了在通常被我们误导的地方（称为增加地点和魔术地点）所涉及的解释和关系上下文的复杂性。在一个特定的地方，人们进行维护仪式，我们探究了将Yanyuwa与袋鼠祖先地理联系在一起的复杂纽带。这项研究不满足于宣称采取行动来增强定向能力或狩猎魔力的分类习惯，而是更充分地阐明了在生态健康中起关键作用的场所的关系实质。这是通过询问相对重要的地点（例如维护地点）的深度如何实现的，