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Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country 2nd edition

Fully Revised & Expanded, A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia
By Marcia Langton
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Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country 2nd edition by Marcia Langton is a comprehensive guide offering readers a deep dive into the diverse and rich cultures of Indigenous Australians. It explores the heritage, traditions, and social landscapes, aiming to educate non-Indigenous readers on the importance of understanding and respecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. This edition includes updated insights, enhancing its role as an informative resource on Australia's Science & Nature category.
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Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country 2nd edition

The definitive book that introduces readers from all backgrounds to First Nations histories and cultures.

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The Welcome to Country Handbook by Professor Marcia Langton AO is your accessible introduction to First Nations Peoples, histories, and cultures. Drawn from the bestselling Welcome to Country, this guide is essential reading for every Australian and an excellent resource for cultural awareness training in the workplace or classroom.

The chapters cover precolonial and post-colonial history, language, kinship, knowledge, art, performance, storytelling, native title, the Stolen Generations, making a rightful place for First Australians, and looking to the future for Indigenous Australia. A new introduction as well as a chapter on racism has been written especially for this handbook, and all information has been checked and updated.

Looking through these pages and photos and reading Professor Langton's profound words, you will quickly appreciate how lucky we are to be the home of the world’s oldest continuing civilisation – which is both diverse and thriving in Australia today.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781741178227

Publisher: Hardie Grant Explore

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 June 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Explore

Illustration: B&W text pages with colour insert

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 416g

Pages: 240

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Marcia Langton Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Science & Nature

About the Author

Professor Marcia Langton AO PhD Macq U, BA (Hons) ANU, FASSA is one of Australia’s most important voices for Indigenous Australia. As an anthropologist and geographer, she has made a significant contribution to government and non-government policy as well as to Indigenous studies, native title and resource management, art and culture, and women’s rights. Professor Langton has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne since February 2000. In 2016, she was honoured as a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, and was then appointed as the first Associate Provost at the University of Melbourne in 2017. She has received many other accolades, including the Officer of the Order of Australia award in 2020.

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