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Indigenous societies have responded to a legacy of missionisation, universalist Christian beliefs and global contemporary Christian music through their own expressions of worship in a myriad of ways. This article considers the role of emotions in Australian Aboriginal expressions of contemporary Christian music amongst Yolngu in the Northern Territory. Moral obligations to kin and land are strategically embodied in Yolngu traditional ritual performance and shape appropriate "performative emotions." These emotive ideals persist through Christian worship styles and have influenced the composition and performance of Yolngu Christian music. Because Indigenous performances are based on inherent connections between place and personhood, it is argued that translocal sentiments of belonging can be shared amongst Australian Aboriginal communities as well as amongst other Indigenous groups at Christian gatherings. Thus, while Indigenous communities participate emotively in the worldwide Christian arena through contemporary Christian music, they also resonate with one another at the level of translocal sentiments expressed in conceptions of self and personhood that are based in songs about the country.
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079650
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079651
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This article is an ethnographic analysis of transnational family links between adult migrant children living in Australia and their kin in Italy, from the 1950s to the present. A key focus of the article is the persistence of bonds of emotion across distance. Drawing on Finch and Mason's research on caregiving relationships and Hochschild's work on emotional labour, it explores both the positive experiences as well as the tensions associated with the transnational exchange of moral and emotional support. The findings confirm the perseverance of bonds of emotion across distance and thus challenge arguments about the declining bonds within translocal families as a result of globalising processes. The role that new communication technologies play in sustaining these bonds is offered as a possible explanation to account for the apparent increase in the frequency of transnational emotional interaction over time. The article also calls for further work on the influence of physical co-presence or absence on emotional interaction over distance
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This article explores the complex processes and emotions that characterise transnational family reunion. Using the tools of experimental ethnography, it unpacks the experiences of Marcela, a young Australian-Salvadoran, who embarked on a family reunion with members of her transnationally dispersed family in various locales: London (Ontario), Los Angeles, various towns in El Salvador, and Managua in Nicaragua. Her account of the family reunion affords an opportunity to understand the cultural complexities and emotional dynamics of these events. The encounters between guests (Marcela's family) and hosts gave rise to issues of reciprocity, envy, and guest-host dynamics. These dynamics were place specific, resulting in a much higher degree of spontaneity in encounters with other exiled family members, indicating both the shared experiences of exile and the realities, and perceptions, of socio-economic status. While the politics of reciprocity was an explicit feature in all trans-national encounters experienced by Marcela's family, it was Marcela's "cultural Australianness" that served as a constant reminder of how becoming a trans-national had changed her permanently and marked her out from her kin.
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