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- Title
TOWARD A PHEN(OMEN)OLOGY OF THE SEASONS: THE EMERGENCE OF THE INDIGENOUS WEATHER KNOWLEDGE PROJECT (IWKP).
- Authors
RYAN, John Charles
- Abstract
Since European settlement, the Western calendar has in-sufficiently accounted for the seasonal nuances and multiple temporali-ties of Australia. Beginning with Tim Entwistle's recent proposal to revise the four-season Australian norm, this article traces the emergence of the Western calendar in Europe and its institutionalization 'Down Under.' With its emphasis on land-based calendars, the Indigenous Weather Knowledge Project (IWKP) is a partnership between Aboriginal com-munities and the Bureau of Meteorology aimed at preserving and pro-moting knowledge of the endemic seasons of Australian regions. As the most recent addition to the IWKP, the six-season Nyoongar calendar of the South-West of Western Australia is based on meteorological condi-tions (ecological time), such as wind directions and temperatures, but also on the procurement of food, maintenance of cultural knowledge, and performance of ceremonies (structural time). Through the fusion of phenomenological (experiential, sensory, place-based, actual) and pheno-logical (cognitive, visual, enumerative, digital) approaches, the endemic seasons of Australia can be appreciated in their depth and extent.
- Subjects
PHENOMENOLOGY; SEASONS in literature; ECOLOGY education; ENVIRONMENTAL education; METEOROLOGICAL research
- Publication
Environment, Space, Place, 2013, Vol 5, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
2066-5377
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7761/esp.5.1.103