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By A. Monchamp
This ebook stocks and analyses the tales of Opal, a senior Alyawarra girl. via her tales the reader glimpses the cruel colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have confronted, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical reminiscence from a philosophical, mental and anthropological standpoint.
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20 While some psychologists are careful to note that this dichotomy may not reflect every possible form of self-construal it is still the case that virtually all the psychological literature on cultural variation in self-construal reflects these broad groupings. Therefore, as with memory paradigms, I will outline the frameworks as described in the literature to provide a common ground from which to begin my analysis. This dichotomy will then be problematized throughout the course of this book. As stated above, at a basic level socio-cultural differences in self-construal are for the most part set within a dichotomy of interdependent versus independent socio-cultural environments.
21 In exploring self-construal, psychologists often look to self-reference, particularly pronoun use, as one fundamental/structural way that we may begin to shed light on differences in self-construal. Debates regarding pronoun use circulate around certain vexed questions about the nature of the referents. These questions present an interesting avenue for discussing abstract social structure and cultural orientation. Further, they allow for an examination of issues relating to inference from abstraction and from experience.
Was there a station here then, did you work here then? Yeah. In those days they walked everywhere. So you walked all the way up here? Yeah. I couldn’t walk all that far. 4 Opal: Anne: Opal: Anne: Opal: Sue: Opal: Sue: Anne: Sue: Tree on the road to Alpurrurulam We been come up from that Beantree that river where you been swimmin’ [pointing in direction of river]. Oh that river where we went swimming the other day. Had a big camp long we, we go long Lake Nash [moving hand to show path from river to Lake Nash].