Marcia Langton cites the archaeological research of Chris Clarkson, which determines the age of cultural evidence of First Nations material engagement with Country. Chris Clarkson et al., “Human Occupation of Northern Australia by 65,000 Years Ago,” Nature 547 (2017): 306–10, ➝. See Marcia Langton, 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art (Melbourne: Thames and Hudson, 2024), 7.
Lauren Tynan, “What is Relationality? Indigenous Knowledges, Practices, and Responsibilities with Kin,” Cultural Geographies 28, no. 4 (2021): 1–14, 6.
Tynan, “What is Relationality?” 2.
Australia Felix, or happy Australia, was the explorer/invader Thomas Mitchell’s original name for the regions around Victoria which he was surveying in search of good pastoral land, that is to say, land conceptualized as resource.
See, for instance, Alison Page and Paul Memmott, Design: Building on Country (Melbourne: Thames and Hudson, 2021).
"NGV Triennial 2023: Eight-metre-long Bronze Eel Trap Sculpture by Wurundjeri Artist Aunty Kim Wandin Presented in the NGV Moat,” NGV, December 11, 2023, ➝.
Freda Ali Burarra-Martay, Freda Wayartja Ali Burarra-Martay, Maureen Ali Burarra-Martay, Cecille Baker Burarra-Martay, Michelle Baker Burarra, Bonnie Burarngarra Burarra/Yan-nhaŋu, Gabriella Garrimara Burarra-Martay, Doreen Jinggarrabarra Burarra Anbarra, Lorna Jin-gubarrangunyja Burarra-Martay, Indra Prudence Burarra-Martay, Jennifer Prudence Burarra-Martay, Zoe Prudence Burarra-Martay, and Anthea Stewart Burarra-Martay. See “Mun-Dirra (Maningrida Fish Fence),” NGV, ➝.
“For Burarra women, weaving is not just a means of creating functional objects, it is also a way for individuals to express their identity and cultural heritage.” See “Mun-Dirra (Maningrida Fish Fence),” NGV, ➝.
Katherine A. Daniell and Bradley Moggridge, “Indigenous Water Engineering and Aquaculture Systems in Australia: The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape and Baiame’s Ngunnhu (the Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps),” Blue Papers, Water and Heritage for Sustainable Development 3, no. 1 (2024); Gunditjmara and Gib Wettenhall, The People of Budj Bim. Engineers of Aquaculture, Builders of Stone House Settlements and Warriors Defending Country (Heywood, Victoria: em PRESS publishing for the Gungitj Mirrung Traditional Owners Corporation, 2022). Juliana Kaya Prpic and Damien Bell, “Crafting an On-Country Learning Experience at Budj Bim” in Indigenous Engineering for an Enduring Culture, ed. Cat Kutay et al. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), 178–215.
See Hélène Frichot et al., eds., Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems (Basel: Birkhauser, 2022).
Ursula K. Le Guin, Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, intro. Donna Haraway (Ignota Books, 2022). Zoë Sofia, “Container Technologies” Hypatia 15, no. 2, (2000): 181–200. See also Marie-Luise Angerer et al., eds., Containment: Holding, Filtering, Leaking (Lüneburg: Meson Press, 2024).
Elizabeth Fisher, Woman’s Creation: Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Society (New York: McGraw Hill, 1975), 56.
Fisher, Woman’s Creation, 60.
See Sue Green, “Why Are the Feminine Crafts Like Basketweaving Disparaged by Politicians,” The Conversation, May 17, 2018, ➝.
Fisher references Highwater as a Native American writer, but Highwater’s Indigenous identity was exposed to be fabricated in 1984. Writing in the 1970s, Fisher would have therefore been unaware of Highwater’s invented identity. Jamake Highwater, cited in Fisher, Woman’s Creation, 62.
Page and Memmott, Design: Building on Country, 22–28.
Paul Memmott, “Repair and Aboriginal Architecture,” in Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright ed., Repair (Actar, 2018) 52–63.
Memmott, “Repair and Aboriginal Architecture,” 56.
“The sung versions of the myths are encrypted or coded into some sort of minimalist code in order to memorise important and vital landmarks, as beacons or markers in the terrestrial and celestial landscape integrated into the songlines that become interconnected on the continent into a multitude of superimposed networks punctuated by sacred sites.” See Barbara Glowczewski, Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) 16.
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 4, 31.
Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 88.
Donna Haraway, When Species Meet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 4.
Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2007) ix. For further discussion of the concept of entanglement see Hélène Frichot, Dirty Theory: Troubling Architecture (Baunach: AADR, 2025).
Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu (Broome: Magabala Books, 2013); Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking can Save the World (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2023); Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweet Grass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013).
