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Book

Authors
Langton, Marcia; and Corn, Aaron
Title
Law: the way of the ancestors
Secondary Title
First Knowledges series, edited by Margo Neale
Imprint
Thames and Hudson, Port Melbourne, Vic, 2023, 227 pp
ISBN/ISSN
9781760762827
Subject
History of Human Sciences
Description

From Thames and Hudson website:
Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the keys to resilient, caring communities and a life in balance with nature.

Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn show how Indigenous law has enabled people to survive and thrive in Australia for more than 2000 generations. Nurturing people and places, law is the foundation of all Indigenous societies in Australia, giving them the tools to respond and adapt to major environmental and social changes. But law is not a thing of the past. These living, sophisticated systems are as powerful now as they have ever been, if not more so.

Source
cohn 2023

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260