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  • Sustaining Indigenous Songs

    Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia

    by Georgia Curran ...
    As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to their cultural heritage. Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Sustaining Indigenous Songs

    Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia

    by Georgia Curran ...
    As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to their cultural heritage. Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs

    Juju-ngaliyarlu karnalu-jana pina-pina-mani kurdu-warnu-patu jujuku

    Edited by Simon Japangardi Fisher, Valerie Napaljarri Martin, Georgia Curran, Linda Barwick, Emeritus Professor Nicolas Peterson ...
    Series series Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts
    Warlpiri songs hold together the ceremonies that structure and bind social relationships, and encode detailed information about Warlpiri country, cosmology and kinship. Today, only a small group of the oldest generations has full knowledge of ceremonial songs and their associated meanings, and there is widespread concern about the transmission of these songs to future generations.While musical and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • First Knowledges Ceremony

    All Our Yesterdays for Today

    by Wesley Enoch, Georgia Curran ...
    What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deep understanding of the expertise, wisdom and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. We perform ceremonies every day. Some are personal, some highly organised and others are repeated for generations. For First Nations Australians, ceremonies create the backbone of cultural practice. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions

    Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change

    Edited by Georgia Curran, Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan ...
    Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions: Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change explores endangered forms of performance from across the world, and the aspirations of practitioners, community members and researchers to keep these traditions going.Readers are provided with an ethnographically rich focus on specific performance contexts in diverse cultural worlds, including case ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • First Knowledges Songlines

    The Power and Promise

    by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly ...
    Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe 'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette Russell Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • First Knowledges Design

    Building on Country

    by Alison Page, Paul Memmott ...
    Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • First Knowledges Law

    The Way of the Ancestors

    by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn ...
    Our Laws are forever present and provide the pathways for all Australians to truly learn how to belong to this continent.' - June Oscar 'No other current work has been able to so comprehensively explain the significance of traditional law in all its manifestations.' - Henry Reynolds Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Our Voices

    Indigeneity and Architecture

    by Rebecca Kiddle, Patrick Reid Stewart, Kevin O'Brian ...
    Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple Indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice. Indigenous authors from Aotearoa NZ, Canada, Australia, and the USA explore the making and keeping of places and spaces which are informed by Indigenous values and identities. The lack of publications to date offering ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Australia For Dummies

    by Larissa Behrendt ...
    A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and cultureWhat is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the past have on Indigenous peoples today? Indigenous Australia For Dummies, 2nd Edition answers these questions and countless ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Becoming Pakeha

    by John Bluck ...
    A journey between two culturesAfter more than 200 years of co-existence under the umbrella of a unique treaty, you might think things would be better than ever. In this perceptive and piercing book, John Bluck argues that Pākehā and Māori worlds grow ever more separate: the Aotearoa of today is a landscape of two predominant cultures, overlaid with so many others, fractured and more likely to ... Read more

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  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD