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Title Tracking knowledge in North Australian landscapes : studies in indigenous and settler ecological knowledge systems / edited by Deborah Bird Rose and Anne Clarke
Published Northern Territory : Australian National University North Australia Research Unit, 1997

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Description xiii, 154 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents The landscape: a view from geography / Les Rowntree -- The year zero and the North Ausrtalian frontier / Deborah Rose -- An unobtrusive goanna / Jay Arthur -- Pastoralism, a contested domain / Nick Gill -- Looking at country from the heart / Kathy Deveraux -- Landscape knowledge / cultural property / Mary Tarran -- Land use planning and cultural difference / Sue Jackson -- The land still speaks? / Michael Walsh -- Cultural perspectives of the South Alligator River floodplain / Diane Lucas, Minnie Gapindi & Jeremy Russell-Smith -- Kakadu: archaeological stories for emergent landscapes / Harry Allen
Summary A collection of ten essays originally presented at the Northern Landscape Symposium Dec 1996; knowledge systems and their interaction with landscape; essays by Rose, Arthur, Gil, Deveraux, Tarran, Jackson, Walsh, Lucas and Allen annotated separately
Notes Papers originally presented at the first Northern Landscapes Symposium held in Darwin, N.T., December, 1996
Bibliography Bibliography
Audience Secondary school and tertiary students
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Science -- Congresses.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Northern.
Cultural landscapes -- Australia, Northern.
Environmentally sensitive areas -- Australia, Northern.
Ethnoscience -- Australia -- Congresses.
Human beings -- Australia, Northern -- Influence of environment
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia, Northern.
Human ecology -- Australia -- Congresses.
Land settlement -- Australia, Northern.
Land use -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Land use -- Australia, Northern.
Land use -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Landscape assessment -- Australia -- Congresses.
Landscapes -- Australia, Northern.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Clarke, Anne, 1959-
Rose, Deborah Bird, 1946-
Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit.
Northern Landscapes Symposium (1st : 1996 : Darwin, N.T.)
ISBN 0731528832