Sea Country: Plurality and knowledge of saltwater territories in Indigenous Australian contexts,The Geographical Journal

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Sea Country: Plurality and knowledge of saltwater territories in Indigenous Australian contexts
The Geographical Journal ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 , DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12466
Amanda Kearney ₁ , Michael O’Leary _{2,

3} , Spencer Platten ₄

Affiliation

There are distinct bodies of cultural knowledge attached to the sea. In this paper we orient the focus towards the nature and extent of cultural framings of sea territories, as inclusive of submerged landscapes, for Indigenous maritime peoples in northern Australia. This approach is distinguished by a pluralist methodology and reorients the primal focus of a human geography and broader geographical scholarship concerning submerged landscapes to begin with an Indigenous perspective. Engaging ethnographic accounts of Indigenous Australian knowledges of Sea Country, as inclusive of ancient pre-inundation landscapes that lie out-of-sight on Australia's continental shelves, highlights the potential for a more expansive vision of human connections to the past and present continental landmass of Australia. Indigenous oral traditions, Dreaming Ancestor narratives and songlines provide extensive detail to assist in understanding these parts of the greater Australian landmass and in this paper are brought into relation with recent sea floor mapping efforts which operate to draw back the water and reveal commensurable geographies upon which to envision possibilities for socialised realms of human emplacement. Both bodies of knowledge generate information of submerged landscapes that call for an expansion of thinking on where the land ends and the sea begins and how submerged terrestrial landscapes are understood across cultures as part of human geography. The approach outlined here calls for a habit of bringing principled systems of understanding to stand together as part of an explanatory schema for a world populated by and yet differentially known by people.

中文翻译：

海国：澳大利亚土著背景下咸水领土的多样性和知识

海洋有不同的文化知识体系。在本文中，我们将重点放在澳大利亚北部土著海洋民族的海洋领土文化框架的性质和范围上，包括淹没景观。这种方法以多元主义方法论而著称，并重新定位了人文地理学和更广泛的关于淹没景观的地理学研究的主要焦点，以从土著视角开始。对澳大利亚本土海国知识的人种学描述，包括澳大利亚大陆架上看不见的古代洪水前景观，突出了人类与过去和现在大陆大陆之间联系的更广阔视野的潜力澳大利亚。土著口述传统，Dreaming Ancestor 的叙述和歌谣提供了广泛的细节，以帮助理解大澳大利亚大陆的这些部分，并且在本文中将其与最近的海底测绘工作联系起来，这些工作旨在抽回水并揭示可比拟的地理区域，以设想人类安置的社会化领域。这两个知识体系都产生了淹没景观的信息，这些信息要求扩展思考陆地的尽头和海洋的起点，以及如何将淹没的陆地景观作为人文地理学的一部分在不同文化中得到理解。这里概述的方法要求养成一种习惯，即把有原则的理解系统放在一起，作为一个解释图式的一部分，用于解释一个由人们居住但人们对其了解不同的世界。

更新日期：2022-06-23

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