Indigenous Knowledge
Australian Perspectives
Will be published approx. on 5. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-522-88075-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Carlton
Australia
Publishing group
Melbourne University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-522-88075-5 (9780522880755)
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E-Book
11/2024
Simon + Schuster LLC
€18.78
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Persons
Professor Marcia Langton AO is a granddaughter of Yiman and Bidjara people in Queensland where she was born and raised. She is qualified as an anthropologist and geographer, and since 2000 has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, and since 2017, has held the role of Associate Provost.
Professor Aaron Corn is inaugural director of the Indigenous Knowledge Institute and Coordinator of the Doctor of Philosophy - Indigenous Knowledge degree course at the University of Melbourne. His research collaborations with Indigenous colleagues and communities began in the early 1990s and have fostered meaningful research and teaching partnerships that have promoted greater recognition for Indigenous knowledge holders within universities and beyond. His bestselling book Law: The Way of the Ancestors, co-authored with Marcia Langton, was published in 2023. He co-hosts the podcast The Deep End with Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn.
Dr Samuel Curkpatrick is a researcher specialising in Australian Indigenous music and philosophical issues of language, epistemology and religion. He has collaborated on music performance and teaching with Yol?u and Warlpiri ceremonial leaders, exploring creativity and understanding across diverse knowledge traditions. Curkpatrick is a research associate at the Indigenous Knowledge Institute and the Indigenous Studies Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. He completed doctoral studies in ethnomusicology at the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, ANU, and postdoctoral research in theology and philosophy at the University of Divinity.
Professor Aaron Corn is inaugural director of the Indigenous Knowledge Institute and Coordinator of the Doctor of Philosophy - Indigenous Knowledge degree course at the University of Melbourne. His research collaborations with Indigenous colleagues and communities began in the early 1990s and have fostered meaningful research and teaching partnerships that have promoted greater recognition for Indigenous knowledge holders within universities and beyond. His bestselling book Law: The Way of the Ancestors, co-authored with Marcia Langton, was published in 2023. He co-hosts the podcast The Deep End with Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn.
Dr Samuel Curkpatrick is a researcher specialising in Australian Indigenous music and philosophical issues of language, epistemology and religion. He has collaborated on music performance and teaching with Yol?u and Warlpiri ceremonial leaders, exploring creativity and understanding across diverse knowledge traditions. Curkpatrick is a research associate at the Indigenous Knowledge Institute and the Indigenous Studies Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. He completed doctoral studies in ethnomusicology at the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, ANU, and postdoctoral research in theology and philosophy at the University of Divinity.