eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics, 13(2), 56-74. Designs on the Future: Aboriginal Painted Shields and Baskets of Tropical North Queensland, Australia. Anita lives in Bali.Īaberge, B., Barnard, T., Greer, S., & Henry, R. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cambridge University, UK, has a PhD in Anthropology, and an MA in Science & Technology Studies. Anita has curated exhibitions in NY, LA, Paris and Sydney, and her own research has been exhibited at the Australian National Maritime Museum, the National Art Gallery of Malaysia and Alliance de Française. She has published extensively in academic journals, editing numerous Special Issues. Anita has won awards and held fellowships: LIA TransOceanik (CNRS, JCU, Collége de France) The Cairns Institute Evans Fellow, Cambridge University, UK Guest Researcher, Maison Asie-Pacifique, Université de Provence, France Visiting Fellow, Institute of the Malay World and Civilization, National University Malaysia and Anthropologist-in-Residence, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia. Her thinking is informed by material poetics, film ethnography, and environment. Her interdisciplinary ethnographies – Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia – explore the intertwinings of nature and culture. The material analysis of the Aboriginal author Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, demonstrates how the book dared to challenge the Western written history, and to show a new relationality of being of humans with the more-than-human world.īarbara Glowczewski, CNRS (Centre Nationale Recherche Scientifique) & Collège de France, FranceĪssociate Professor Anita Lundberg is a cultural anthropologist. Thus, Tropical Materialisms are enhanced by the vast body of Indigenous experiences and creative productions in and beyond the tropics. Indigenous Australian cosmovisions offer to tropical studies a way of thinking politically about climate and the materiality of life. This is particularly crucial for the tropical world which is so strongly impacted by climate change. Indeed, Indigenous Australian’s complex social practices offer ways of thinking and being for the whole planet in this time of climate crisis.
Such cosmovisions resonate with current debates in the fields of critical posthumanism and new materialism through an Animist materialism.
Their multiple totemic visions of the Dreaming space-time always state a material actualisation in landscape and the reproduction of all forms of life based on the pluriversal agency of animals, plants, minerals, rain, wind, fire and stars. Indigenous Australians are outstanding for the way their ontologies and practices do not rely on a Western dichotomy that opposes material and spiritual realms. Indigenous cosmology, cosmovisions, Dreaming, Aboriginal Australia, Animist materialism, Tropical Materialisms Abstract CNRS (Centre Nationale Recherche Scientifique) & Collège de France, France
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