Chapter 3: Noongar boordier gnulla katitjin – The influence of Noongar knowledge.

Despite the history of settler colonisation and state control (Attwood, 1989), where Indigenous people and their knowledge has been ‘classified, excluded, objectified, individualised, disciplined, and normalised’ (Best and Kellner), it is important to recognise that this is not the complete story. W...

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Main Authors: Buchanan, J., Collard, Len, Cumming, Ingrid, Palmer, D., Scott, Kim, Hartley, John
Format: Journal Article
Published: Cultural Science 2016
Online Access:https://culturalscience.org/14/volume/9/issue/1/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50358
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description Despite the history of settler colonisation and state control (Attwood, 1989), where Indigenous people and their knowledge has been ‘classified, excluded, objectified, individualised, disciplined, and normalised’ (Best and Kellner), it is important to recognise that this is not the complete story. Western science and knowledge systems have had a long history of interrelationship with Australian Indigenous cultural life and systems. As bell hooks (1992) put it when describing the influence of African-Americans on US culture (see also Todd Boyd, 1997), even in the worst circumstances of domination, blacks have an ability to manipulate, shape and open up exchanges with white knowledge systems.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-503582021-01-14T04:15:22Z Chapter 3: Noongar boordier gnulla katitjin – The influence of Noongar knowledge. Buchanan, J. Collard, Len Cumming, Ingrid Palmer, D. Scott, Kim Hartley, John Despite the history of settler colonisation and state control (Attwood, 1989), where Indigenous people and their knowledge has been ‘classified, excluded, objectified, individualised, disciplined, and normalised’ (Best and Kellner), it is important to recognise that this is not the complete story. Western science and knowledge systems have had a long history of interrelationship with Australian Indigenous cultural life and systems. As bell hooks (1992) put it when describing the influence of African-Americans on US culture (see also Todd Boyd, 1997), even in the worst circumstances of domination, blacks have an ability to manipulate, shape and open up exchanges with white knowledge systems. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50358 10.5334/csci.91 https://culturalscience.org/14/volume/9/issue/1/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cultural Science fulltext
spellingShingle Buchanan, J.
Collard, Len
Cumming, Ingrid
Palmer, D.
Scott, Kim
Hartley, John
Chapter 3: Noongar boordier gnulla katitjin – The influence of Noongar knowledge.
title Chapter 3: Noongar boordier gnulla katitjin – The influence of Noongar knowledge.
title_full Chapter 3: Noongar boordier gnulla katitjin – The influence of Noongar knowledge.
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title_short Chapter 3: Noongar boordier gnulla katitjin – The influence of Noongar knowledge.
title_sort chapter 3: noongar boordier gnulla katitjin – the influence of noongar knowledge.
url https://culturalscience.org/14/volume/9/issue/1/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50358