The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future. Exploring practices such as architecture and design, land management, medicine, astronomy and law, this six-book series brings together two very different ways of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. The first book focuses on Songlines.
Margo Neale is the head of the Centre for Indigenous
Knowledges, senior Indigenous curator, and principal adviser to the
director of the National Museum of Australia (NMA). She is also an
adjunct professor at the Australian National University and has
authored or edited eleven books, including the Oxford Companion to
Aboriginal Art and Culture. She has curated groundbreaking,
award-winning national and international exhibitions, including
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters; Utopia: The Genius of Emily
Kame Kngwarreye; and Urban Dingo: The Art and Life of Lin Onus.
Lynne Kelly is a science writer working as an honorary
research associate at La Trobe University. Her field of research is
the memory methods used by those who depended on their memories for
everything they knew: oral cultures including Australian
Aboriginal, Native American, Pacific and African cultures. She is
also a mnemonist, committing vast amounts of information to memory
using the memory technologies of Indigenous peoples. She is the
author of The Memory Code and Memory Craft.
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