Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development - Grant ID: DI0347624

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DI0347624

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Dreaming Tracks and Trading Paths - a study of Aboriginal trading routes through Queensland. Aboriginal song lines and trade routes became the foundation for stock routes, coach ways and bitumen highways because successful European exploration used the expediency of Aboriginal guides who travelled along the routes already familiar to them. These routes are documented in instruments of land management such as churingas, toas or shields, and in the mnemotic memory of songs and stories. By reading together these two types of knowledge - of European exploration and of Aboriginal authorship of country - popular ways of 'knowing Aborigines' become fundamentally reinscribed and much popular knowledge about Aboriginal societies is deeply challenged.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development

Funding Amount: $20,022.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Aboriginal Studies | Museum Studies | Other Studies in Human Society |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage

Other Keywords

Aboriginal Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage | Museum Studies | Other Studies in Human Society | Understanding Australia'S Past

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