A meeting is scheduled for Friday, 6 March in relation to a Taungurung songlines project.
The meeting will take place at the Alexandra office at 10.30am.
We are after any mob who can bring knowledge about significant places that may link to our songlines.
Everybody is welcome.
Here is an extract of an update from Duane Hamacher, (University of Melbourne researcher) regarding the project.
"We now have a letter of support and for the project to proceed we need ethics approval, and funding.
The research side involves three major components, all done in constant consultation with TLaWC:
1. Archival Research. This involves poring through all of the published literature, unpublished archives, field-notes, language dictionaries etc to find any and all references to astronomy and culture relating to Taungurung and surrounding communities; visiting libraries, museums, and digging through the online academic literature.
2. Archaeological Research. Visiting and studying any site or material culture that could relate to the stars. Stone arrangements, rock art, cultural sites, artefacts, etc. are all part of this.
3. Ethnographic Research. This involves interviewing elders and knowledge custodians about traditional knowledge relating to the stars and Songlines. This primarily involves interviews, which means we need ethics clearance from the university and funding for Elders' time and travel reimbursements.
There is a lot of exciting work we can do. We can start the archival component of the project now and start getting the forms in for ethics approval and for funding. It will take time."
I also want to let you all know that I will be having a coordination role with this project and will be giving you updates from time to time.
I encourage you all to attend the meeting at Alexandra on Friday 6 March (see Events at bottom of this newsletter)
Corlene Button
Songlines Project Coordinater
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