The Competing Origin Narratives of Science and Indigenous Worldviews: case studies from the Aru Islands of Eastern Indonesia and the Kimberley Region of Northern Australia - Softcover

Corrigan, Brendan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3845472391 ISBN 13: 9783845472393

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

This book arose out of research being conducted for a Doctoral Dissertation concerning the relationship between scientific understandings of human origins, expressed through archaeological writings, and the mythological understandings of indigenous people in the places the archaeological data came from, expressed through religious practices. In the course of my research I discovered that the competing discourses I was investigating were most easily understood as different stories about the same places. This difference is anchored in competing world views, as is the authority that gives credence to the competing narratives. To understand this better, in the enclosed pages I step through the ways in which these different stories about the same places come into existence and some of the inter-subjective ways in which they relate to each other. This book will appeal to people who have an interest in different ways of understanding the world we all live in.

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About the Author

Dr Brendan Corrigan is a consultant anthropologist who works on indigenous land claims and heritage protection projects in remote parts of northern Australia. He completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Western Australia in 2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3845472391
• ISBN 13: 9783845472393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304