Aboriginal Cultures in the Wet Tropics

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 59-70

  Pannell, Sandra ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Ecology and Management ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal cultural self representations challenging and embracing views of culture; Aboriginal cultures in the wet tropics; Boomerang throwing image of Aboriginal culture; Conclusions, implications and management considerations; Economic efficiency or technical magic of science; Rights to culture and culture as rights

Indexed keywords

CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS; ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; RIGHTS TO CULTURE AND CULTURE AS RIGHTS; WET TROPICS;

TROPICS;

EID: 84889618331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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