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• Title: Traditional Indigenous Biodiversity-Related Knowledge.
• Author : Australian Academic & Research Libraries
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 250 KB

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Each year since 1997 an Aboriginal festival is held at a place called Gulkula in northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. The traditional owners of the land, the Gumatj clan, joined with other Yolnu clans with special affiliations to Gulkula to host a traditional ceremony, the Garma, and, for the first time, to invite others to come to the week long ceremonial gathering to learn about Yolnu culture, religion and philosophy. In 1999 Galarrwuy Yunupingu, a leader of the Gumatj clan, carved a wooden object, called in his language, Maak. (1) Adroitly carved diamond shapes on the Maak, it was explained, represented the sparks of fire that leapt from the wildfire and spread across the land. Like a fire, the truth burns', he explained, 'that's how we know it is the truth'. (2) It was his intention, he said, to have his invitation to learn Yolnu knowledge of the environment spread across the land 'like a fire'. (3) The Maak was translated by Merrkiyawuy Stubbs and related to each Yolnu group that had come to the Garma ceremony. The carvings on the Maak each represented a part of a message which Marcia Langton was asked to deliver, along with the Maak, to the vice-chancellors of Australian universities. In the company of local Bundjalung and other clan leaders, the Maak was relayed to Professor Niland at the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AVCC) meeting at the Southern Cross University in northern New South Wales on 30 August 2000.

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