Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze

Barbara Glowczewski is an anthropologist and a professorial researcher at the French Scientific Research Center, CNRS. She is also a member of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the College de France. Last month she was awarded the silver medal of the CNRS. She has dedicated her work to advocating for Australian Aboriginal creativity through a variety of artistic, cinematic and narrative exploration. She is the author of many books in French. Her publications in English include Desert Dreamers (Univocal, 2016) and Kunga: Law Women from the Desert (Skira Editore, 2012).

'Indigenising Anthropology is not merely a collection of essays spanning the storied career of Barbara Glowczewski. It is a homage to a philosophical space that grew between Glowczewski’s long and intimate intellectual relationship with Felix Guattari and her equally committed conceptual dialogue with Indigenous Australians. Glowczewski’s thoughts glow with a scholarly originality and political potentiality desperately needed today.' -- Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University. 'These fascinating essays retrace an engagement over forty years with Anthropology, Australian Indigenous people and the thought of Guattari and Deleuze. By turns anthropological field notes, theoretical essay and personal memoir, they provide a unique perspective on the intersection of these domains. They open a window on to the intellectual and spiritual resources, and politics, of Aboriginality in the contemporary world. Highly recommended to anyone interested in these matters.' -- Paul Patton, UNSW and Wuhan University

• Prelude: The Wooden Egg Made Me Sick by Nakakut Barbara Gibson Nakamarra1: Becoming LandPart I: The Indigenous Australian Experience of the Rhizome2. Warlpiri Dreaming Spaces; 1983 and 1985 Seminars with Félix Guattari3. Guattari and AnthropologyPart II: Totem, Taboo and the Women’s Law4. Doing and Becoming. Warlpiri Rituals and Myths5. Forbidding and Enjoying. Warlpiri Taboos6. A Topological Approach to Australian Cosmology and Social OrganisationPart III: The Aboriginal Practice of Transversality and Dissensus7. In Australia, It’s ‘Aboriginal’ With a Capital ‘A’. Aboriginality, Politics and Identity8. Culture Cult: Ritual Circulation of Inalienable Knowledge and Appropriation of Cultural Knowledge (Central and N-W Australia)9. Lines and Crisscrossings: Hyperlinks in Australian Indigenous NarrativesPart IV: Micropolitics of Hope and De-Essentialisation10. Myths Of 'Superiority’ and How to De-Essentialise Social and Historical Conflicts11. Resisting the Disaster. Between Exhaustion and Creation12. Standing with the Earth: From Exhaustion to CreationPart V: Dancing With the Spirits of the Land13. Cosmocolours: A Filmed Performance of Incorporation and a Conversation with the Preta Velha Vo Cirina14. The Ngangkarri Healing Power: Conversation with Lance Sullivan, Yalarrnga HealerBibliography