This article is dedicated to a close examination of how stories of Indigenous place meaning come to light, and the pathways by which they travel, both physically (as tangible expressions) and intellectually (as intangible expressions). It offers a reflection on the epistemic habits that render these stories audible, visual, and otherwise sensual in the context of one Indigenous Australian community. Appreciating the communicative pathways that exist in place, and which reveal the nature of place, is what motivates an ethnographic commitment to Indigenous knowledge in reading meaning in place. We conclude that opening up both anthropology and archaeology to plurality in “knowing the place world” illuminates a “poetics of fit” for certain people in certain places, highlighting the extent to which place has its own empirical order, and identity, which, with certain epistemic habits, may be read, felt, and known.

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物质的地方：澳大利亚北部卡奔塔利亚湾西南地区土著地方意义的故事

这篇文章致力于仔细研究土著地方意义的故事是如何被曝光的，以及它们在物理上（作为有形表达）和智力上（作为无形表达）传播的途径。它反映了认知习惯，这些习惯使这些故事在一个澳大利亚土著社区的背景下变得可听、可视觉和感性。欣赏就地存在的交流途径并揭示地方的本质，是激发对原住民知识阅读原地意义的民族志承诺的动力。我们得出的结论是，在“了解地方世界”的过程中，将人类学和考古学向多元化开放，为特定地方的某些人阐明了“适合的诗学”，突出了地方在多大程度上拥有自己的经验秩序和身份，