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Book Review Book Review Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness Deborah Bird Rose Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission, 1996 ISBN 0-642-23561-9 (PB) The genesis of Nourishing Terrains is interesting: it was written in accord with the Australian Heritage Commission's stated intention (in the Foreword of the volume) to 'encourage understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples'. However, the Commission's major role is to 'identify heritage places which are part of Australia's National Estate'. The exercise thus raises some complex questions about the process of representing Aboriginal relations to land within the framework of European Australian concepts of 'heritage'. How, for example, does this particular endeavour balance an opportunity to educate a wider population about Aboriginal worldviews against the risks of further appropriation of Aboriginal cultural knowledge and its reconstruction as 'Aus- tralian heritage'. As the author of the thoughtful and discerning ethnography Dingo Makes Us Human (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Rose is doubtless well aware of the sensitivities of this issue, and she addresses it briefly, noting that she has made use only of information already in the public domain, and pointing to the need for 'creative arts to forge links between people' rather than expressing their differences. Choosing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Worldviews Brill

Book Review

Worldviews , Volume 3 (2): 179 – Jan 1, 1999

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Brill
Copyright
© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1363-5247
eISSN
1568-5357
DOI
10.1163/156853599X00144
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Book Review Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness Deborah Bird Rose Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission, 1996 ISBN 0-642-23561-9 (PB) The genesis of Nourishing Terrains is interesting: it was written in accord with the Australian Heritage Commission's stated intention (in the Foreword of the volume) to 'encourage understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples'. However, the Commission's major role is to 'identify heritage places which are part of Australia's National Estate'. The exercise thus raises some complex questions about the process of representing Aboriginal relations to land within the framework of European Australian concepts of 'heritage'. How, for example, does this particular endeavour balance an opportunity to educate a wider population about Aboriginal worldviews against the risks of further appropriation of Aboriginal cultural knowledge and its reconstruction as 'Aus- tralian heritage'. As the author of the thoughtful and discerning ethnography Dingo Makes Us Human (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Rose is doubtless well aware of the sensitivities of this issue, and she addresses it briefly, noting that she has made use only of information already in the public domain, and pointing to the need for 'creative arts to forge links between people' rather than expressing their differences. Choosing

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