ISBN:
9780367720490
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9780367706883
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 192 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Museum and heritage studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Heritage, indigenous doing, and wellbeing
DDC:
305.899/15
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
;
Aboriginal Australians Philosophy
;
Cultural property Protection
;
Decolonization
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Australien
;
Aborigines
;
Ethnologie
;
Kollektiveigentum
;
Kulturgüterschutz
;
Umwelt
;
Wohlbefinden
;
Quelle
Abstract:
"Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing presents an Aboriginal Australian relational understanding of the world that offers a counter-narrative to the Western notion of heritage and new insights into the potential for sustaining the complex systems that support all life. From an Indigenous Australian perspective, the Western concept of heritage is intentionally exclusionary and supports social, political, economic and environmental injustice. Aboriginal people engage with landscape every day in entirely different ways, seeing Country as a living 'heritage', but in a unique relationship form that engages the individual with Place, Ancestors, language, and wellbeing. However, Country is most often relegated by heritage proponents to 'intangible heritage' and this results in the concept having little legislative, legal or administrative weight. Drawing on a common understanding of Country as sacred, living and sentient, rather than as objectified property or resource, the contributors to this book explore a diversity of relationships with Country that demonstrate the richness and the practical utility of this relational understanding. Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing foregrounds the voices of Australian Aboriginal people who are involved in 'Caring for Country'. It will be an essential resource for those engaged in the study of Country, heritage, museums, indigenous peoples, landscape architecture, environmental studies, planning and archaeology. It will also be of great interest to heritage practitioners working around the globe"--
Note:
Collection of essays by Rod Williams and 14 others
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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