Social Formations of Wonder by Jaap Timmer Matt Tomlinson

Author:Jaap Timmer, Matt Tomlinson [Jaap Timmer, Matt Tomlinson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367664329
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

Aunty Joan Mob discussed the dingoes howl the next morning, as eggs were fried for breakfast. It was understood that on this night the dingoes howled in order to communicate with each in announcing our presence, out bush: our entry into their domain. Aunty Joan Mob’s presence, and that of their guests, had been noticed and knowledge of it shared. Our presence was neither resented nor welcomed, as far as I could tell. But there was an implicit assumption, amongst these speculations, that the dingoes recognized the particular humans of whom they howled: Aunty Joan Mob belonged out here, they were familiar, indeed, relatively frequent visitors rather than strangers. The dingoes howled on our first night out bush, but we did not hear them again: this confirmed the agreed-upon interpretation: they had already noted and shared news of our presence.

Talk of dingoes then, and the ways in which dingoes were understood to talk about Aunty Joan Mob, suggested relations of familiarity, even though fear and respect was born of this familiarity. Dogs were respected bosses of a wild world that was the permanent home of Aunty Joan Mob’s antecedents, but remained outside of the contemporary Aboriginal experience. And so this fear mixed complicated pleasures: it was exciting to have access to and to enter a realm that lay beyond the agricultural districts, where traditional countries and all the meanings bound up in them had been sublimated to modern desires, were the land had been made productive and had fallen quiet, and from which dogs were barred.

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