Week 2 - Culture & Practice: Ways of Knowing

Lecture:

• Week 2 lecture Culture & Prac: ways of knowing

  • (LORE)*

  • Diversity of county - adapting to environment -

  • (Design to survive)* - ecocultural landscape

Reading notes:

• TRAIN WORK*

Tutorial:

Journal

• What did you learn from the weekly topic and content?

• What did you understand from these ideas?

• How has this new learning shifted your own thinking around these ideas?

Notes

• Remake landscapes to create predictable food sources through fire

• fire stick farming - set fire and spread through undesirable plants and replace them with desirable plants hat can be used for food or medicine

• burring in circle allows animals to get away and makes the fire move slowly (cool burring)

• Captain cook believed that the landscape was made through nature and not First nations people

• Ways of knowing* → ref to psych textbook

• the environment knows back (animals move away from fire/the frogs sing back)

• Its hard to justify colonisation if you don’t try to prove that your way of knowing is better

• (terronulious being an empty land)

• was believed to be Nomadic