Yol\u014bu classifications of local shellfish types throw into stark relief the differences between indigenous knowledge systems and those of the western sciences. Systems of knowledge are embedded in distinctive worldviews that are often incommensurable with others, but within themselves, they are wholly coherent. Knowledge and practices maintained by peoples with extended histories of intimate coexistence with their environments typically emphasize symbiotic and spiritual connectedness to place. Such thinking tends to link people, animals, plants and other elements of the cosmos through social relations and engender systems that look and feel very different from the formal conventions of modern western style sciences. What may appear ambiguous from a purely scientific perspective may reveal a magnificent pattern of intimate and holistic connection where colour, shared habitat or mythological origin inform the logic of classification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At 21 cm. and 273 pages, Maypal is a uniquely sumptuous and scientifically precise, alphabetically organised, visual field guide to all the historical and most recently updated scientific, common and Yol\u014bu names of Arnhem Land shellfish and invertebrates in a number of Yol\u014bu languages, Latin and English. It includes full colour illustrations, colour maps and keys to identification, cross referenced into ecological zones and Yol\u014bu bilingual alphabetical order. I.D by world expert Dr R. Willan. It also features hitherto unrecorded beautifully translated ancestral poetry of shellfish in six languages by eminent Yol\u014bu. It has rich illustrations of seasonal availability and wind directions with detailed descriptions and examination of commensurability in scientific and Yol\u014bu world views. With photographs from Lloyd W Warner, Donald Thomson and David Hancock and lustrously designed by Therese Ritchie, it is a masterpiece of cross-cultural collaboration, bound in gold leaf. Only 15 copies remain in the author’s collection. All others handed out to Schools and Homelands across Arnhem Land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[17],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}