Indigenous Perspectives

A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3-20

  Whitt, Laurie Anne ^a   Roberts, Mere ^b   Norman, Waerte ^b   Grieves, Vicki ^c  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geneology; Generation; Indicenous; Intimacy; Medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948760367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751664.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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3. Bright, A. (1995) "Burn Grass," in Country in Flames (Canberra: Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories), pp. 59-62. [Yinirrakun, a Mak Mak Marranunggu woman, describes the practice, purpose and responsibilities of burning as a means of caring for country.]
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35. Thornton, M. B. (1996) Living Maths (Melbourne: Boulder Valley Films). [A bookof the video on Garma Living Maths which articulates the formal logical and mathematical concepts of the Yolngu people.]
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38. Watson, H. and Chambers, W. (1989) Singing the Land, Signing the Land (Geelong, Victoria: Deakin University Press). [Analyzes the interaction of European and Aboriginal knowledge systems in a format intended to demonstrate the cultural dimensions of human perception of the environment.]
39. Whitt, L. A. (1995) "Indigenous peoples and the cultural politics of knowledge," in Issues in American Indian Cultural Identity, ed. M. Green (New York: Peter Lang), pp. 223-71. [Contrasts some of the distinctive features of indigenous knowledge systems with those of western cultures.]
40. Wilkins, D. P. (1993) "Linguistic evidence in support of a holistic approach to traditional ecological knowledge," in Traditional Ecological Knowledge, ed. N. Williams and G. Baines (Canberra: Australian National University), pp. 71-93. [A linguistic approach to understanding the ecological knowledge of the Mparntwe Arrernte.]
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42. Yunupingu, G. (1997) Our Land Is Our Life (Queensland: University of Queensland Press). [Some of indigenous Australia's most influential leaders speakto issues of social justice and land rights for their people.]
43. LaDuke, W. (1999) All Our Relations (Cambridge: South End Press). [A series of essays by a well-known Anishinabe activist relating contemporary Native struggles for survival and sovereignty.]
44. Weaver, J. (1997) Defending Mother Earth (New York: Orbis Books). [A collection documenting Native North American resistance to environmental injustices by those engaged in the struggle.]