Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country
eBook - ePub

Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country

A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country

A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia

About this book

Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected scholar and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights into Indigenous languages and customs, history, native title, art and dance, storytelling, and cultural awareness and etiquette for visitors. There is also a directory of Indigenous tourism experiences, organised by state or territory, covering galleries and festivals, national parks and museums, communities that are open to visitors, as well as tours and performances.

This book is essential for anyone travelling around Australia who wants to learn more about the culture that has thrived here for over 50,000 years. It also offers the chance to enjoy tourism opportunities that will show you a different side of this fascinating country — one that remains dynamic, and is filled with openness and diversity.

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Information

Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781741175431
eBook ISBN
9781743586549

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. 1 PREHISTORY
  6. 2 ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER CULTURES AND POST-COLONIAL HISTORY
  7. 3 LANGUAGE
  8. 4 KINSHIP
  9. 5 KNOWLEDGE
  10. 6 ART
  11. 7 PERFORMANCE
  12. 8 STORYTELLING
  13. 9 NATIVE TITLE
  14. 10 THE STOLEN GENERATIONS
  15. 11 MAKING A RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE NATION FOR THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS
  16. 12 CULTURAL AWARENESS
  17. 13 LOOKING TO THE FUTURE FOR INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA
  18. GLOSSARY
  19. REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
  20. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  21. ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST
  22. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  23. APPENDIX

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