Australia: Landscape, Transformations, And Immutability In An Aboriginal Australian Culture

Australia: Landscape, Transformations, And Immutability In An Aboriginal Australian Culture Robert Tonkinson, 2011   Aboriginal Australian societies are notable among hunter-gatherers for the seemingly contradictory co-presence of high mobility and a deep emotional attachment to their homelands. Totemic geography underlies people’s multiple linkages to place, and certain acts of the living may also be memorialized, inscribed, and objectified in landscape. Using examples drawn from a Western...

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