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Songlines : the power and promise / Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly

by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly

This book examines Songlines as sophisticated archives of Indigenous Australian knowledge encoded through song, art, and ceremony. It explores the contemporary application of these ancient mnemonic systems and their potential for storing information in memory and Country.

Accession 22440 ISBN 9781760761189 Publisher Thames & Hudson
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