Persistence and Interruption: Ontological Dynamics and Cultural Analysis by Professor Stephen Muecke from suffix for other Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 31 min 23 sec
✓ Published: 12-May-2016

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Please note: Unfortunately, due to audio equipment failure the sound quality is compromised in parts of this recording.nnAbstractnOne might be forgiven the mild joke that Australian Aboriginal cultures are not existentialist. In an obvious way, this is marked by the usual absence of the verb ‘to be’. Being is not the question, making Hamlet’s speech very difficult to translate. Belonging is far more important, and this is often marked by a comitative suffix, like –tjara, meaning ‘havin