Online Courses Handbook 2003

305624 (v.1) Indigenous Australian Oral History 102

Area:	Centre for Aboriginal Studies
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Tutorial:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Examination of the historical forces that have marginalised oral forms of knowledge production and control - modernity and imperialism, and privileged written forms of knowledge production and control. An Indigenous Australian affirmation of the role ofthe oral tradition of storytelling, history, genealogical and kinship accounts, significant sites, and knowledge transmission.