Connection to place, migration and the transformation of tradition in the Wellesley Islands

Memmott, Paul, Lilley, Ian and Dalley, Cameo (2006). Connection to place, migration and the transformation of tradition in the Wellesley Islands. In Hypertraditions: The Tenth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), 15 -18 December 2006, (28-28), Bangkok, Thailand.

 
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Author(s) Memmott, Paul
Lilley, Ian
Dalley, Cameo
Title Connection to place, migration and the transformation of tradition in the Wellesley Islands
Conference name Hypertraditions: The Tenth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE)
Conference Item Type Published Abstract
Proceedings title Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review: Hyper-Architecture and the Hyper-real: Hyper-Traditions
Conference location Bangkok, Thailand
Conference dates 15 -18 December 2006
Place Published Berkeley, California, USA
Publisher Blackwell Publishing
Editor(s) Nezar AlSayyad
ISSN 1050-2092
Publication date 2006
Volume number 18
Issue number 1
Start page 28
End page 28
Total pages 1
Language eng
Subject 2002 Cultural Studies
Abstract/Summary This explanatory paper deals with the Aboriginal tribes of the Wellesley Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria (Australia), who originally derived from the Proto-Tangkic people, a common ancestral group extant at about 10,000 years ago. It focuses on a selected set of migratory events in the prehistory and contemporary history of the Wellesleys that have resulted in cultural shifts in the properties of social identity, the media of identity expression and the nature of relationships to place and cultural landscapes. In this analysis we shall examine the proposition that patterns of cultural change for these island populations have always involved the “disruption of tradition” through complex processes of acceptance/non-acceptance and adaptation of traits, systems of knowledge and ways of doing things. Such an understanding thus requires a dynamic model of ‘tradition’that can accommodate significant transformations of the constructs of time, space and identity. The need for such an understanding was perhaps what led to the coining of the term ‘hyper-tradition’ as part of this conference. We posit, however, that the invention of a new term is unnecessary and that, as has been argued by others, what is required is a re-conceptualisation of the term ‘tradition’.
Keyword(s) Wellesley Islands
Hyper-tradition
Social identity
Migratory events
 
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