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Cultural Knowledge

Cultural Knowledge

By  Rashida Murphy

 

Such a loaded term – cultural knowledge – coming as it does with its own set of expectations and hints of secrets. When I try to unpack it a little, I think about how knowledge differs from appropriation and what the keepers of cultural knowledge can do to protect themselves from stealth and theft. And the answer is – very little. We live in times of exchange and borrowings and slippages and it is hard to skid to a stop, metaphorically speaking, and say – ‘You have gone too far.’

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31/12/17 Arts & Culture , Australia , Diaspora & Travel # , , , , ,

Coming home to curious creatures

Coming home to curious creatures

By Ruchira Talukdar

 

I live close to the Yarra, along one of its many bends, which is also home to a colony of flying foxes. The long evenings at this time of the year offer the perfect opportunity to gaze at these curious creatures as they take off on their nocturnal sojourns.

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