Disturbances and Dislocations

The Author: Elizabeth Mackinlay (BMus Hons, PhD Adelaide, PhD Qld) is a Senior Lecturer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland where she teaches Indigenous Studies, Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. She completed her PhD in Ethnomusicology in 1998 and a PhD in Education in 2003. She is undertaking research on Indigenous Australian women’s performance, performance pedagogy and embodied learning, race and music, and motherhood and music.

• Contents: Approaching Indigenous Australian Women’s Music and Dance: An Engaged and Embodied, Dialogic and Disturbing Teaching and Learning Process – The Researcher and the Research Site: A Narrative – Understanding Performance as a Pedagogical Text: A Pilot Study – Reading against the Grain: Theoretical Positioning – Young, White and Female: A Personal and Political Profile of ANTH2120 Students – Performing Ethnography in the Classroom: Workshops and Performers – Performing Bodies: Experiencing and Embodying Knowledge about Indigenous Australian Women’s Music and Dance – Engaging with Theories of Dialogue and Voice: Using Bakhtin as a Framework to Understand Teaching and Learning Indigenous Australian Women’s Performance – Performance and Performativity in Teaching and Learning Indigenous Australian Women’s Music and Dance: Power, Politics and Pedagogy.