301440 (v.2) Indigenous Australian Culture 102

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Area:	Centre for Aboriginal Studies
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Theories on ways of knowing Indigenous Australian culture currently available to non-Indigenous Australian people. The three main available discourses, according to Muecke, are racist, anthropological and romantic, and are seen as normal, natural and universal. A fourth discourse, one that is primarily framed and articulated by Indigenous Australian people, offers a critique of, or counter discourse to, the 'naturalised' ways of knowing.