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Aboriginal Material Culture - Let’s Get It Right - Redressing the Folklore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

A.W. Scott
A.W. Scott*
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Centre for Natural Science and Mathematics Education, Armidale CAE, NSW2350.
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Since the mid 1970s (cf. Mulvaney 1976, p.74) there has been a rapid expansion in the study of Aboriginal material culture which has led to modification of ideas relating to the interpretation of this culture. It is therefore most important that current data sources and interpretations are used by teachers. In response to the comments and opinion of persons not particularly conversant with the field, one is forced to conclude that there are many misconceptions held by our society in general concerning traditional Aboriginal culture.

The purpose of this paper is to dispel some of these subjectively based impressions so that any materials, examples or ideas which are drawn from the area of Aboriginal studies are presented in an accurate context.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , September 1986 , pp. 11 - 27
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986 

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