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Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Design & Building on Country: First Knowledges for younger readers by Paul Memmott, Alison Page
$26.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Education | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? Join designer and artist Alison Page alongside anthropologist and architect Paul Memmott as they share some of the incredible inventions created by the oldest continuing culture in the world. With striking colour illustrations fro ...Show more
First Knowledges Astronomy: Sky Country by Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest scientists in human history.Many First Peoples regard the land a ...Show more
First Knowledges Country: Future Fire, Future Farming by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture by Shawana Andrews, Fiona Stanley, Sandra Eades
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
"What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. The health of Australia's First Peoples is grounded within the sacred lands of Mother Earth. For thousands of ...Show more
First Knowledges Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...Show more
First Knowledges Plants: Past, Present and Future by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
Law: The Way of the Ancestors (First Knowledges) by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the keys to resilient, caring communities and a life in balance with nature. Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn show how Indigenous law has ...Show more
Songlines (First Knowledges for younger readers) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
How do you find your way around, get your food and drink, connect with your friends and family? How do you know the right and safe way to do things, or how to make things? Before the white people came to the continent, all Australian Aboriginal people knew how to do all these things - and much, much mor ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines 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 ...Show more
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