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anthropologist in Arnhem Land  \nPeople Policy Place Seminar  \n1 August 2025  \nSam Williams  \n[sam.williams@students.cdu.edu.au](sam.williams@students.cdu.edu.au)  \n“We need our own anthropologist”  \n“If ‘old’ anthropology understands its task to be revealing one world to another, the challenge of yuta anthropology is to bring different worlds into relationship …  \nrather than repudiating anthropology for its lingering colonial ties and presumptions,[we are] interested in the possibilities of renewing this discipline.”  \nMiyarrka Media, 2019, p. 11-12  \nSome jobs given to me as the group’s anthropologist:  \n1. Registering sacred sites with the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (AAPA)  \n2. Finding archival material from anthropologists at AIATSIS  \n3. Making videos  \nSome questions I won’t answer…  \nWho exercises authority in making anthropological knowledge?  \nOr, the institutions that govern and authorize knowledge making.  \nHow is contemporary anthropological knowledge made?  \nOr, the institutional procedures by which knowledge work is done.  \nWhere is anthropological knowledge located?  \nOr, the places that are the institutional grounds of knowing.  \n1. 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