Message sticks: Long-distance communication in Indigenous Australia

信息棒：澳大利亚原住民的长途通信

• 批准号: DE220100795
• 负责人: Dr Piers Kelly
• 金额: $ 29.64万
• 依托单位: The University of New England
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE220100795
• 关键词: Message; sticks; Long; distance; communication

Message sticks are marked wooden objects that were once used throughout Indigenous Australia to convey important information between communities. The intended outcome of this project is to answer a central question: What role did message sticks play in Indigenous long-distance communication? Drawing on archival evidence and original fieldwork in the Top End, the project aims to be the first empirically grounded study of message sticks as a practice. The project expects to define message sticks as a class of material culture, explain their communicative dynamics, generate new cross-cultural insights, and strengthen collaborations between research institutions, museums and Indigenous cultural organisations.

信息棒是带有标记的木制物品，曾被澳大利亚原住民用来在社区之间传达重要信息。该项目的预期成果是回答一个核心问题：信息棒在土著长途通信中发挥了什么作用？该项目利用档案证据和北端地区的原始实地调查，旨在成为第一个以经验为基础的信息棒实践研究。该项目期望将信息棒定义为一类物质文化，解释其交流动力，产生新的跨文化见解，并加强研究机构、博物馆和土著文化组织之间的合作。