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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People
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'Aboriginal people taught themselves thousands of years ago how to live sustainably in Australia's fragile landscape. A Scandinavian knowledge management professor meets an Aboriginal cultural custodian and dares to ask the simple but vital question: what can we learn from the traditional Aboriginal lifestyle to create a sustainable society in modern Australia? Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe show how traditional Aboriginal stories and paintings were used to convey knowledge from one generation to the next, about the environment, law and relationships. They reveal the hidden art of four-level storytelling, and discuss how the stories, and the way they were used, formed the basis for a sustainable society. They also explain ecological farming methods, and how the Aboriginal style of leadership created resilient societies.' Source: Back cover.

Notes

  • Includes Skuthorpe's retelling of the Nhunggabarra stories

    • The Rainbow Serpent
    • The Big Buurra of Baayami
    • The Crane and the Crow
    • The Creation of Narran Lake
    • Baaluu and Muuboop
    • The Southern Cross
    • The Black Swans
    • Mirrai Mirrai : The Seven Sisters
    • Willy-wagtail and the Rainbow
    • How the Nhunggabarra Got Flowers

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2006 .
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      Extent: xxi, 262p., [16] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus. (some col.)
      ISBN: 174114874X (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Review : Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People Dennis Foley , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , vol. 36 no. 2007; (p. 114-117)

— Review of Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People Karl Erik Sveiby , Tex Skuthorpe , 2006 selected work criticism life story
Treading Lightly Karl Erik Sveiby , Tex Skuthorpe , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 27 July vol. 5 no. 110 2006; (p. 28)

— Review of Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People Karl Erik Sveiby , Tex Skuthorpe , 2006 selected work criticism life story
Treading Lightly Karl Erik Sveiby , Tex Skuthorpe , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 27 July vol. 5 no. 110 2006; (p. 28)

— Review of Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People Karl Erik Sveiby , Tex Skuthorpe , 2006 selected work criticism life story
Review : Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People Dennis Foley , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , vol. 36 no. 2007; (p. 114-117)

— Review of Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People Karl Erik Sveiby , Tex Skuthorpe , 2006 selected work criticism life story
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