Songlines

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Aboriginal Australian cultural concept Indigenous knowledge system cultural practice intangible cultural heritage navigational system oral tradition

Songlines are intricate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander systems of knowledge that map ancestral journeys across the land and sky through song, story, and ceremony, encoding law, geography, and cultural identity.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
The Songlines 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aboriginal Australian cultural concept ⓘ
Indigenous knowledge system ⓘ
cultural practice ⓘ
intangible cultural heritage ⓘ
navigational system ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
associatedWith Aboriginal Australians NERFINISHED ⓘ
Torres Strait Islander peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ
basedOn Dreaming NERFINISHED ⓘ
ancestral beings ⓘ
canCross clan territories ⓘ
language group boundaries ⓘ
regional trade routes ⓘ
encodes ancestral journeys ⓘ
cultural identity ⓘ
ecological knowledge ⓘ
geography ⓘ
law ⓘ
resource locations ⓘ
sacred sites ⓘ
function maintenance of kinship obligations ⓘ
maintenance of law ⓘ
navigation ⓘ
spiritual connection to Country ⓘ
transmission of cultural knowledge ⓘ
geographicScope Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ
specific Aboriginal Countries ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Dreaming tracks NERFINISHED ⓘ
song cycles ⓘ
maps landscape ⓘ
seasonal patterns ⓘ
sky ⓘ
waterways ⓘ
medium ceremony ⓘ
dance ⓘ
song ⓘ
story ⓘ
visual art ⓘ
recognizedAs important to Australian cultural heritage ⓘ
regulatedBy customary law ⓘ
relatedTo Country ⓘ
clan identities ⓘ
ritual responsibilities ⓘ
totemic systems ⓘ
requires ceremonial authority ⓘ
cultural permission ⓘ
threatenedBy cultural disruption ⓘ
environmental change ⓘ
land dispossession ⓘ
transmissionMethod intergenerational teaching ⓘ
oral transmission ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures → hasConcept → Songlines ⓘ
Derek Trucks Band → notableWork → Songlines ⓘ
Bruce Chatwin → notableWork → Songlines ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Songlines