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Songlines : the power and promise / Margo Neale & Lynne Kelly.

By: Contributor(s): Series: First knowledges ; 1.Publisher: Port Melbourne, Victoria : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 207 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781760761189 (paperback)
Other title:
  • Songlines
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.89915 23
Online resources:
Contents:
The Seven Sisters Songline – First Knowledges: An Introduction – 1 Personal Perspectives – 2 Everything Starts and Finishes with Country – 3 Knowledge in Country and the Third Archive – Songlines Today – 5 Songlines and Synapses – 6 Songlines Spiral Forever – 7 Songlines Embrace the Globe – 8 Songlines in Sea and Sky – 9 Art is Culture Made Visible – 10 The Promise of Songlines – 11 The Last Song – Acknowledgements – Image Credits – Notes – Further Reading – Index.
Awards:
  • Victorian Premiers Literary Awards 2021 shortlist.
Summary: 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 ceremony, rather than simply recorded in writing. Weaving deeply personal storytelling with extensive research on mnemonics, Songlines: The Power and Promise offers unique insights into Indigenous traditional knowledges, how they apply today and how they could help all peoples thrive into the future. This book invites readers to understand a remarkable way for storing knowledge in memory by adapting song, art, and most importantly, Country, into their lives.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.89915 NEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 90788

"National Museum of Australia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Seven Sisters Songline – First Knowledges: An Introduction – 1 Personal Perspectives – 2 Everything Starts and Finishes with Country – 3 Knowledge in Country and the Third Archive – Songlines Today – 5 Songlines and Synapses – 6 Songlines Spiral Forever – 7 Songlines Embrace the Globe – 8 Songlines in Sea and Sky – 9 Art is Culture Made Visible – 10 The Promise of Songlines – 11 The Last Song – Acknowledgements – Image Credits – Notes – Further Reading – Index.

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 ceremony, rather than simply recorded in writing. Weaving deeply personal storytelling with extensive research on mnemonics, Songlines: The Power and Promise offers unique insights into Indigenous traditional knowledges, how they apply today and how they could help all peoples thrive into the future. This book invites readers to understand a remarkable way for storing knowledge in memory by adapting song, art, and most importantly, Country, into their lives.

Victorian Premiers Literary Awards 2021 shortlist.

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