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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... no. 11 2014 of PAN est. 2000 PAN
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2014-2015 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Indigenous Ecological Knowledges - Editorial, Rebecca Lucas , single work essay (p. 1)
Stories Want To Be Told : Elaap Karlaboodjar, Sandra Wooltorton , Len Collard , Pierre Horwitz , single work criticism
'Water is carried into the estuary by the Collie and the Preston rivers, although five rivers drain the Leschenault catchment into Elaap, the Leschenault Estuarine System: the Wellesley, Collie, Brunswick, Preston and Ferguson. Elaap is a Noongar word which means 'on or by the water', referring to the people and their place. There are many stories about this estuary - some new, some a little older, and some ancient. Nitja Noongar boodjar, derbal - this is Noongar country and estuary. Our stories are old, like our place.' (Publication summary)
 (p. 3-18)
"We Sing Our Law, Is That Still TEK?" : Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Can the West Come to Know?, John Bradley , Stephen Johnson , single work criticism

'Throughout history, anthropologists have confronted a number of uncomfortable truths around the supposed nature of reality. The anthropological maxim, "through the study of others we learn more about ourselves" has been sorely tested en route. Arguably, this challenge reached culmination during the 1970s and 80s, with several prominent social commentators from Geertz to Clifford suggesting that anthropologists had, in both past and present, been much more concerned with the study of 'others' than of 'ourselves' (Nader 1964:289). In essence, this reflexive critique suggested that ethnographers were in the business of writing fiction and more insidiously came to the field equipped with a set of assumptions and presuppositions about the world in all its variety. These universal verities functioned to reduce all subjects of study into conformity with the observer's sense of what was real and of import and what was not and inconsequential.' (Publication summary)

 (p. 19-26)
You've Got to Drown in It, Nia Emmanouil , single work criticism
'The sun hangs low in the sky, a sliver of a new moon chasing it down into the canopies of nearby mangroves. Across the fire Frans rasps a piece of irigirll (Hakea arborescens), shaping it into a boomerang with the same name, irigirll: tree and boomerang are one. We have sat on this same ground many times before, during previous walks of the Lurujarri Dreaming Trail. Does the country here at Wirrar (Barred Creek) remember us? Maybe some places are just right for sitting, sleeping, telling stories, if there is good feeling there.' (Publication abstract)
 (p. 41-47)
Staying, or Learning Wathawarrung in Ballarati"Keep your life still long enough", Michael Heald , single work poetry (p. 74-76)
Encounters with Stones, George Main , single work essay
'We've had a hilltop fenced, to exclude sheep. A stony rise peppered with ancient white box trees. Sturdy, gnarled branches hollowed by time, cherished by birds, possums, sheltering their young. The fencer lives nearby, on a farm called Heaven. These paddocks, fertile slopes of productive red clay, north of the Murrumbidgee River in southern New South Wales, are heavenly. Such gentle terrain, waterholes on Pinchgut Creek, yellow box with monumental trunks, heartwood and bark and sap, lively records of so many seasons.' (Publication abstract)
 (p. 77-81)
With This Ring…, Anne Edwards , single work autobiography (p. 82-83)
Sheep Leaning, Jeff Stewart , single work prose (p. 84)
Scars, Lilian Pearce , single work prose (p. 85)
Review : The Biggest Estate on Earth : How Aborigines Made Australia, Natasha Fijn , single work review
— Review of The Biggest Estate on Earth : How Aborigines Made Australia Bill Gammage , 2011 single work non-fiction ; (p. 105-106)
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