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Journal articles on the topic "Australian aboriginal Mythology"

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Norris, Ray P. "Australian Aboriginal Astronomy in the International Year of Astronomy 2009." Communicating Astronomy with the Public 4, no. 2 (2010): 5–9. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14880960.

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Each of the 400 different Aboriginal cultures in Australia has a distinct mythology, and its own ceremonies and art forms, some of which have a strong astronomical component. Sadly, the Australian media tend to focus on negative aspects of contemporary Aboriginal culture, and very few non-Aboriginal people in the wider Australian community are aware of the intellectual depth of traditional Aboriginal cultures. The International Year of Astronomy 2009 seemed an excellent opportunity to tell the wider public about Aboriginal astronomy, so that they might understand something of the depth and com

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Fallon, Breann. "“I am Mother to my Plants”." Fieldwork in Religion 13, no. 2 (2018): 169–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.36021.

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The tree stands as a sacred symbol in many faith traditions. Unsurprisingly, nature-based new religious movements are no exception. This article considers the manifestation of sacred trees in a number of religious traditions, including Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander spirituality, Abrahamic traditions, Ancient Egyptian religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Norse mythology, the Shinto faith, and nature-based new religious movements. After this initial section, I present the findings of a fieldwork project undertaken in 2016. Using the survey as a tool, this project enquired into the us

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Cockburn, Sylvia, and Alethea Beetson. "(Re)Presenting Indigenous Histories of the First World War: Case Studies for Museums." Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Culture 11 (2020): 93–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.17082/j.2205-3239.11.1.2020.2020-07.

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Over 1000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander soldiers fought in WW1, at a time when they had few rights on home soil. While on active duty many of these soldiers received the same conditions and respect as their non-Indigenous counterparts. Yet when they returned it was back to a life of discrimination, and their stories were silenced. In the decades after the war, Indigenous voices were rarely present in the memorialising of the ANZAC legend. For museums trying to commemorate the centenary of WWI the absence of tangible collections relating to Indigenous soldiers presents a challenge. How

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Tempone-Wiltshire, Julien. "Sand Talk: Process Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledges." Process Studies 53, no. 1 (2024): 42–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21543682.53.1.02.

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Abstract Through a close study of T. Yunkaporta's 2019’s Sand Talk, this article explores fractal thinking and the pattern of creation in Indigenous cosmology; the role of custodianship in respectful interaction between living systems; alternative Indigenous understandings of nonlinearity, time, and transience; the process-panpsychism and animism present in Indigenous perceptions of cosmos as living Country, illustrated in the Dreaming and Turnaround creation event; the role of embodied cognition and haptic and situated knowledge in Indigenous science; Indigenous holistic reasoning and the min

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González Zarandona, José Antonio. "Towards a Theory of Landscape Iconoclasm." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25, no. 2 (2015): 461–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774314001024.

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‘Landscape: the land escapes (1) when we try to seize it with our maps, satellites, geographic information systems and Street Views, land is what evades our surveillance (2) land is the terrain of escape.’ (Cubitt 2012)‘Since the middle of the twentieth century, the claim that something is art does not imply what it might have meant at the end of the nineteenth century, when it was made out to be a hallmark of European high and bourgeois society.’ (Heyd 2012, 287)The destruction of Indigenous rock art sites in the Pilbara district in Western Australia has become a natural sight within the mini

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Siewierski, Radosław. "The Relationship between Humans and Animals in the Aboriginal Mythology through the Prism of Animal Studies." Journal of Education Culture and Society 13, no. 2 (2022): 601–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs2022.2.601.612.

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Aim. The aim of this article is to analyse Aboriginal myths and discover the relationship between animals and humans in the beliefs of the indigenous Australians. The article attempts to explain how animals are described when compared to people and vice. Furthermore, the author endeavours to establish what the relationship looks like and how it is presented. Methods. As Aboriginal myths and mythologies have been evolving for hundreds and thousands of years, it is not possible to analyse every single myth. Hence, in order to narrow them down, only the myths presented by Alexander Wyclif Reed wi

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Clarke, Philip A. "The Aboriginal ethnobotany of the South East of South Australia region. Part 3: mythology and language." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 139, no. 2 (2015): 273–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03721426.2015.1074340.

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Kolig, Erich. "Social causality, human agency and mythology: Some thoughts on history‐consciousness and mythical sense among Australian Aborigines." Anthropological Forum 10, no. 1 (2000): 9–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00664670050006730.

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Wallace, Anthony F. C. "Technology in Culture: The Meaning of Cultural Fit." Science in Context 8, no. 2 (1995): 293–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002039.

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The ArgumentThe thesis of this paper is that there are three basic processes by which a technological innovation is fitted into an existing culture: (1) Rejection, in situations where all interested groups are satisfied with a traditional technology and reject apparently superior innovations because they would force unwanted changes in technology and ideology; (2) Acceptance, in situations where a new technology is embraced by all because it appears to serve the same social and ideological functions as an inferior, or inoperative, traditional technology; and (3) — most commonly in complex soci

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Starrs, Bruno. "Writing Indigenous Vampires: Aboriginal Gothic or Aboriginal Fantastic?" M/C Journal 17, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.834.

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The usual postmodern suspicions about diligently deciphering authorial intent or stridently seeking fixed meaning/s and/or binary distinctions in an artistic work aside, this self-indulgent essay pushes the boundaries regarding normative academic research, for it focusses on my own (minimally celebrated) published creative writing’s status as a literary innovation. Dedicated to illuminating some of the less common denominators at play in Australian horror, my paper recalls the creative writing process involved when I set upon the (arrogant?) goal of creating a new genre of creative writing: th

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Australian aboriginal Mythology"

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Versluys, Cornelia. "Creative interaction between Australian aboriginal spirituality and biblical spirituality." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Brooks, David William. "Dreamings and connections to country : among the Ngaanyatjarra and Pintupi of the Australian western desert." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146666.

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In broad terms, this thesis has a two-fold aim. Firstly, it is a study of Aboriginal connectedness to country over a large area of the Australian Western Desert, sufficiently large that it embraces the main country of two recognised desert peoples, the Ngaanyatjarra and the Pintupi. This breadth of coverage enables me to undertake a comparison in respect to certain aspects of culture, social organisation and the relationship to land. There have previously been few detailed studies of these matters in the desert, and none in which two large scale groupings have been able to be compared in this

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Skye, L. M. "Yiminga (spirit) calling : a study of Australian Aboriginal Christian women's creation theology." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5129.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2005.<br>Degree awarded 2005, thesis submitted 2004. Title from title screen (viewed July 3, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Studies in Religion, Faculty of Arts. Includes bliographical references. Also available in print form.

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McCoy, Brian Francis. "Kanyirninpa : health, masculinity and wellbeing of desert Aboriginal men." Access full text, 2004. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2416.

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Kanyirninpa, or holding, exists as a deeply embedded value amongst desert Aboriginal peoples (Puntu). It is disclosed as authority with nurturance, where older generations assume the responsibility to care for and look after younger people. Kanyirninpa also holds in balance two other key cultural patterns of desert life, autonomy and relatedness. These values are transmitted across generations where they provide desert society with identity, cohesion and strength. While kanyirninpa can be identified in the nurturance provided a child after birth, its presence and power is particularly disclose

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Guest, Dorothy Glenda. "Magical Realism and Writing Place: A Novel and Exegesis." Thesis, Griffith University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367538.

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The aim of this thesis is to interrogate, in the exegesis, and amplify, in the creative work, the conjunctions of literary magical realism and writing place. The exegesis is presented in four chapters that examine some aspects of magical realism, with the main focus on the Latin American strand that has as a main influence Alejo Carpentier’s concept of lo real maravilloso americano (the marvellous place of America). The accompanying novel, Siddon Rock, takes the concept of mythology- and place-centred magical realism and places it in the Australian landscape of a small country town just after

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San, Roque Craig Mumford Sally. "Intoxication : 'facts about the black snake, songs about the cure' : an exploration in inter cultural communication through the Sugarman Project /." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031125.132446/index.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1998.<br>At foot of title: Its origins, development, rationale and implications with performance script, performance video, reviews, evaluation and potential as a therapeutic paradigm considered. "Offered in submission for a Doctorate of Philosophy in the School of Social Ecology, University of Western Sydney" Bibliography : leaves 268-275.

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Blows, Johanna Maria. "Eagle and crow : an exploration of an Australian aboriginal myth /." New York ; London : Garland, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37106125k.

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Corrigan, Brendan. "Different stories about the same place : interpreting narrative, practice and tradition in the East Kimberley of northern Australia and the Aru Island of Eastern Indonesia." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0083.

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This thesis interrogates the relationship of archaeological models and indigenous understandings of origins in the East Kimberley region of Northern Australia and the Aru Islands of Eastern Indonesia. Archaeological models of prehistoric migration construct these places as part of the same landmass in the recent human period and at times of lower sea levels. Yet, the indigenous groups who currently inhabit these places assert and rely upon their localised understandings of autochthony and mythological creationism. The existence of these competing models has led me to examine the degree to whic

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Dharmaputra, Geofano. "Dreaming animals with human faces." Master's thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116951.

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A myth is a narrative. It is a structured, predominantly culture-specific and shared semantic system which is well known among the members of a particular community or society. Such narratives explain the origins of natural and social phenomena and the interrelationship among people, their deities, the universe, and their surrounding environment, thus enabling the members to understand each othen- and to cope with the unknown (Georges 1968:230; Maranda 1972:12-13).

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Carty, John Richard. "Creating country : abstraction, economics and the social life of style in Balgo art." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109366.

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The translation of traditional Western Desert iconography, narrative conventions and ceremonial aesthetics into the medium of acrylic painting, and onto the emergent plane of 'Aboriginal Art', has been among the great artistic achievements of the modern era. Despite the wealth of scholarship dedicated to this phenomenon, key aspects of it remain obscured in anthropological and art historical analysis. Based on fieldwork in the Australian Western Desert community of Balgo, this thesis develops an ethnographic account of how 'Country' is created through abstraction, kin-based processes of transm

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Books on the topic "Australian aboriginal Mythology"

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Smith, W. Ramsay. Myths and legends of the Australian aborigines. Dover Publications, 2003.

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Kerven, Rosalind. Fire! Rigby Interactive Library, 1996.

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Haviland, John Beard. Old man Fog and the last Aborigines of Barrow Point. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.

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Reed, Alexander Wyclif. Aboriginal stories. Reed, 1994.

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Stanner, W. E. H. On aboriginal religion. University of Sydney, 1989.

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James, Cowan. Mysteries of the dream-time: The spiritual life of Australian Aborigines. Prism Press, 1989.

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Mathews, Janet. The opal that turned into fire: And other stories from the Wangkumara. Magabala, 1994.

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Berndt, Ronald Murray. The speaking land: Myth and story in aboriginal Australia. Inner Traditions, 1994.

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Mudrooroo. Aboriginal mythology: An A-Z spanning the history of aboriginal mythology from the earliest legends to the present day. Thorsons, 1994.

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Arden, Harvey. Dreamkeepers: A spirit-journey into aboriginal Australia. HarperCollins, 1994.

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