Songlines

The Power and Promise

Songlines
Lynne Kelly, Margo Neale
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Paperback
h198 x 130mm - 224pg
27 Oct 2020 AU
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9781760761189
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' Let this series begin the discussion. ' - Bruce Pascoe' An act of intellectual reconciliation. ' - Lynette RussellSonglines 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. About the series: The First Knowledges books are co-authored by Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers; the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia. Forthcoming titles include: Design by Alison Page & Paul Memmott (2021); Country by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe (2021); Healing, Medicine & Plants (2022); Astronomy (2022); Innovation (2023).
Margo Neale is head of the Indigenous Knowledges Curatorial Centre, senior Indigenous curator and principal adviser to the director of the National Museum of Australia (NMA). She is also an adjunct professor at the Australian National University and has published widely, including the Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, and curated groundbreaking, award-winning national and international exhibitions, including Songlines:Tracking the Seven Sisters at the NMA in 2017, Emily Kngwarreye and Lin Onus. Lynne Kelly is a science writer working as an honorary research associate at La Trobe University. Her field of research is the memory methods used by those who depended on their memories for everything they knew: oral cultures including Australian Aboriginal, Native American, Pacific and African cultures. She is also a mnemonist, committing vast amounts of information to memory using the memory technologies of Indigenous peoples. She is the author of The Memory Code and Memory Craft.
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ISBN-13: 9781760761189
Published: 27 Oct 2020
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Thames and Hudson (Australia)
Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia)
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 224

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