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Aboriginal environmental knowledge : rational reverence / Catherine Laudine.

"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 d...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Laudine, Catherine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Series:Vitality of indigenous religions.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Australia.
Ethnoecology > Australia.
Traditional ecological knowledge > Australia.
Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian.
Philosophy of nature > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians > Religion.
Aboriginal Australians > Religion
Human ecology
Ethnoecology
Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian
Philosophy of nature
Traditional ecological knowledge
Australia
Table of Contents:
  • Aborigines as experts on the environment
  • What the experts say
  • Contemporary Aboriginal voices
  • Traditional ways: the evidence regarding food
  • Traditional ways: daily practices regarding food
  • Traditional ways: daily practices regarding fire, shelter and healing
  • Tradition ways: beyond the ego
  • Away from a world of unique truth
  • Rational reverence
  • Real future eaters.

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