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Title: Aboriginal environmental knowledge: rational reverence
Author/Creator: Laudine, Catherine
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: Whilst there are popular ideas about which champion Aboriginal environmental knowledge, many of these are based more on romantic notions than on any detailed understanding of what might be the content of this knowledge. This book is based on a grounded and broad assessment of less well known details of Aboriginal knowledge and provides both a great deal of detail and a new assessment of rituals and practices. Aboriginal environmental knowledge is examined here as an integrated source of both religious and scientific knowledge. An important finding is that Aboriginal environmental knowledge also includes knowledge about education for attitudes considered appropriate for survival. Though evidence for this is readily available in the literature, it has not been part of current depictions of Aboriginal environmental knowledge.
Relation: Vitality of Indigenous Religions
Relation: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=8024&edition_id=11145
Date: 2009
Publisher: Ashgate
Keyword(s): Aboriginal Australians; human ecology; nature; philosophies
Resource Type: book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/917854
Identifier: ISBN:9780754664307

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