Live conversations and writing play an important role in ethnographic research that seeks to develop understanding across cultural differences. Both forms of communication need not remain distinct: written dialogue can develop critical thought while foregrounding the shared contexts and relational impetuses of communication across cultures. Set against the background of recent styles in ethnographic writing about and with Yolŋu people, this article extends from conversations about wata (wind), exploring collaborative practices (music performance and teaching) and approaches to writing ethnography that respond to a core quality of wind as a medium that connects. Wata is a significant theme within manikay (public ceremonial song) that connects Wägilak with their ancestral lands, even as it blows through the country of other groups, allowing new relationships and understandings to be formed. Giving rise to concerns of connection, difference, and movement, wata is a significant theme for considering the ways narrative traditions can shape relationality and give impetus to intellectual inquiry.

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风永远在吹：澳大利亚民族志对话的生成性交叉流

现场对话和写作在寻求增进跨文化差异理解的民族志研究中发挥着重要作用。两种形式的沟通不必保持截然不同：书面对话可以发展批判性思维，同时突出跨文化沟通的共同背景和关系动力。本文以有关 Yolŋu 人的民族志写作风格的最新风格为背景，延伸自关于 Yolŋu 人的对话瓦塔（风），探索协作实践（音乐表演和教学）和编写民族志的方法，以响应风作为连接媒介的核心品质。瓦塔是其中的一个重要主题马尼凯（公共仪式歌曲）将瓦吉拉克与其祖先的土地联系起来，即使它吹过其他群体的国家，也允许形成新的关系和理解。引起对联系、差异和运动的关注，瓦塔这是考虑叙事传统如何塑造关系并推动智力探究的重要主题。