Indigenous Knowledge

Indigenous Knowledge

by Marcia LangtonAaron Corn and Samuel Curkpatrick
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/11/2024

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How are we to live well with others? How can we sustain abundant environments and nourishing cultures? How might connections to place and generations past strengthen our cultural, political and economic futures? Indigenous knowledge traditions have been fundamental to human life in Australia for countless generations. They carry understandings of ancestral histories, and exemplify beneficial behaviours for living well on country, managing environmental resources and maintaining social cohesion. Australia has developed collaborative approaches to Indigenous Knowledge research that are unique in the global context. These approaches centre the wisdom of Indigenous knowledge-holders across interdisciplinary fields of enquiry as diverse as medicine, health and wellbeing, social and economic development, environmental management, agriculture and horticulture, history, law and the creative arts. Indigenous Knowledge: Australian Perspectives reveals how Indigenous ways of being and knowing are intricately tied to place, expressed through beauty, and resound with wisdom. It argues that the world's contemporary challenges can be addressed, and socio-environmental diversity sustained, through conversations with both our ancestral pasts and the ancestral futures that we leave behind.

ISBN:
9780522880762
9780522880762
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-11-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Melbourne University Publishing
Marcia Langton

Marcia Langton AO, PhD is the granddaughter of a Yiman man and an anthropologist, geographer and public intellectual. In 2020, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of her work in tertiary education and Aboriginal rights.

She is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne since 2000.

Aaron Corn

Aaron Corn, PhD is the Professor and Inaugural Director of the Indigenous Knowledge Institute at the University of Melbourne.

He has a background in music, collections management and Indigenous knowledge and serves as Director of the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia.

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