While widely recognised in an informal social setting, Yarning in the research context is somewhat different.
29 Interviews were conducted by IBL with a male or female Aboriginal coinvestigator and typically begun with a 'social yarn' in which investigators established or reaffirmed an interpersonal connection, before moving on to a 'research yarn'.
But Gilman wants to do more than raise our awareness of social ills while spinning a gripping yarn.
Sharing a cigarette and having a yarn, was an important social activity, contributing to a sense of belonging to the Aboriginal community.
You might prefer the story about rights to social security, or you might prefer a yarn about the duty to contribute to social insurance.
At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
Films which stated a position about a social issue were usually labeled either "propaganda films" or "preachment yarns".
To record their ephemeral works (the fragile pieces begin to fray within weeks), yarn bombers photograph and videotape their creations and upload them to blogs, social networks and Web sites for all the world to see.
The show closes with a rare social statement, Ruth Marshall's "Ivy the Snow Leopard" (2006) — a leopard hide, accurate in detail and size, knitted out of colored yarn and stretched on a bamboo frame.
