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- Title
This is Our Story: Yanyuwa Experiences of a Pandemic.
- Authors
Norman, Dinah; Miller, Jemima; Timothy, Mavis; Friday, Graham; Norman, Leonard; Friday, Gloria; Friday, Adrianne; Timothy, Warren; Miller, Joanne; Norman, Lettie; Raggett, Noeleen; Charlie, Colleen; Charlie, Carole; Charlie, Miriam; Hammer, Rhoda; Timothy, Marlene; Mawson, Peggy; Bradley, John; Kearney, Amanda
- Abstract
This article presents a dialogue about the COVID-19 pandemic with Yanyuwa families from the remote community of Borroloola, southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia.[1] As we examine in a longer work, the coronavirus pandemic is one chapter in the history of pandemics in the region, from which Yanyuwa have born social and cultural consciousness around the threat and actuality of incoming sickness and loss of life, translating meaning and launching actions to safeguard their kin and the health of their community. For Yanyuwa, the current COVID-19 pandemic has been understood primarily as a "whitefella virus", brought to Australia by tourists returning from overseas, spread by travellers and the product of Western science. Yanyuwa stories of the COVID-19 pandemic show that people have pulled through the most challenging phase of this pandemic, with their families and community intact.
- Subjects
PANDEMICS; MEDICAL personnel; COVID-19 pandemic; SUDDEN onset of disease
- Publication
Oceania, 2020, Vol 90, p34
- ISSN
0029-8077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ocea.5263