This article examines the telling of ghost stories of Indigenous Australians who were removed from their families during Australia’s assimilation era. Known as the Stolen Generations, this group of people, were subjected to institutionalisation, adoption, and forced removals from their families, communities and Aboriginal country. In many of my ethnographic encounters with Stolen Generations, I was steadily drawn into their world of ghosts and hauntings. This article reflects on the challenge for the ethnographer in thinking with and through such encounters with the uncanny. It asks how we should approach the ghost as a real entity as well as a metaphorical, interpretative lens through which to understand the transgenerational trauma and suffering inflicted by settler colonial violences.

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鬼魂的窃窃私语：失落的世代故事中的失落、渴望和回归

本文考察了澳大利亚同化时代被驱逐出家人的澳大利亚土著人的鬼故事。这群人被称为“被偷走的一代”，他们被制度化、收养，并被迫从他们的家庭、社区和原住民国家迁出。在我与 Stolen Generations 的许多民族志遭遇中，我逐渐被他们的​​鬼魂和困扰的世界所吸引。这篇文章反映了民族志学者在思考和通过这种与诡异遭遇的遭遇时所面临的挑战。它询问我们应该如何将幽灵作为一个真实的实体以及一个隐喻的、解释性的镜头来理解，通过它来理解定居者殖民暴力所造成的跨代创伤和痛苦。