Ways of Working

What happens when more than one group tries to manage the same cultural landscape?

In what ways do farmers who collect Aboriginal artefacts value them?

What leads us to fetishising or throwing away specific objects?

These are some of the types of questions I have asked when approaching projects.

I enjoy working from a Participatory Action Research framework as well as honouring Aboriginal epistemologies (how we know the world around us) and bring an empathetic and sensitive approach.

I also have experience on multidisciplinary fieldwork teams with professional interests in ground stone tools (grinding stones), ethnogeology, cultural burning and domiculture, women's sites, and waste. I have a deep connection with Noongar spirituality and bring that spiritual respect to all communities I work with.

Aboriginal History

I use a historical anthropology approach towards archives and history, focusing on the pre-1900 period in Western Australian Aboriginal communities.

My historical analysis can bring the archives to life by using the following approaches:

• Decolonising

• Biographical

• Feminist

• Marxist

• Queer

Ethnography & Interviewing

Trained at the University of Pennsylvania & UWA in ethnography and interviewing, I have several different anthropology interview methods I can adapt for projects.

These include:

• Structure and semi-structured interviews

• Life history interviews

• Photo elicitation interviews

• Walking interview as biographical method (WIBM)

• Long-term participant observation (ethnography)

Craft Recording & Revitalisation

Have a craft or material culture that's local and special to your community?

Let me help you record it for future generations and begin to take active steps to revive the sleeping craft knowledge.

More-than-human & Environmental Anthropology

I am especially passionate about this growing field of anthropology and am happy to collaborate with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups on projects.

I can provide:

• Object-centered interviews (used in areas from memory elicitation to marketing)

• Object biographies

• Environmental ethnography

• Ethnogeology fieldwork

LGBTQIA+ friendly anthropologist

Two Wayology is proud to be a safe business for LGBTQIA+ community members to work and collaborate with.

Jordanna Eades is trained in queer archival analysis and queer archaeological research. She approaches her work sensitively and with consideration.

Jordanna advocates in her research for the visibility of gender and sexual diversity in Aboriginal societies.