True Tracks

Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture

Terri Janke

• Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781742245270
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Copyright Law
• Index: Law

Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius—nobody's land, free to be taken. True Tracks is a groundbreaking work that paves the way for respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous cultures. Using real-world cases and personal stories, award-winning Meriam/Wuthathi lawyer Dr. Terri Janke draws on twenty years of professional experience to inform and inspire people working across many industries—from art and architecture, to film and publishing, dance, science, and tourism. What Indigenous materials and knowledge are you using? How will your project affect and involve Indigenous communities? Are you sharing your profits with those communities? True Tracks helps answer these questions and many more, and provides invaluable guidelines that enable Indigenous peoples to actively practise, manage, and strengthen their cultural life. If we keep our tracks true, Indigenous culture and knowledge can benefit everyone and empower future generations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• HalfTitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Cultural information
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Who owns Indigenous languages?
• 3 Drawing a line in the sand: Stopping Indigenous arts appropriation
• 4 Restructuring Indigenous architecture and industrial design
• 5 Fine-tuning: Indigenous music, copyright and protocols
• 6 Cross-cultural lens: Shifting the focus in Australian film and television
• 7 How the story got its black voice back: Amplifying Indigenous voices in writing
• 8 Dancing country and acting up
• 9 The rainforest is our supermarket: Bush foods and traditional medicine
• 10 Cultural cognisance: Bringing ancient knowledge
• 11 Rethinking Indigenous research
• 12 Enabling Indigenous voices in education
• 13 Indigenous excellence in digital and technology
• 14 Creating harmony in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM)
• 15 Reimagining Indigenous tourism
• 16 Taking care of business – the ICIP way
• 17 Appreciate, don’t appropriate: It’s fashionable to be culturally respectful
• List of acronyms
• Glossary
• Acknowledgments
• Index