Dear all,

Just a quick word to advise of the recent postings to my Crikey blog, The Northern Myth over the past week or so to today, 22 November 2008.

This week there is a focus on Ethnoornithology - Birds and Cultural Knowledge and Practice - in several of the posts but plenty of other items of interest to those familiar with The Northern Myth and the variety of issues that I try to get across.

To have a closer look go to: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/

Recent postings at The Northern Myth include:

* Towards an (Australian) Indigenous Ornithology - Is Australia an ornithological terra nullius? a paper I gave at the Australasian ornithological Congress at Canberra, December 2003

* Birds of the week - two freed Wedge-tailed Eagles - relocating Alice and Acacia from their home at the Desertt Wildife Park in Alice Springs, NT

* The Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) - a lesson in indigenous bird hunting and conservation - one aspect of bird knowledge shared by New Zealand Moari and Australian Aboriginal peoples

* People doing really stupid things with animals…swimming with crocodiles and polar bears!

* White trash - and proud of it! - a story about racial hysteria

* Dogs of the Week - Camp Dogs on the Radio!! - links to an ABC Radio series on people and their dogs in central Australia

* The Northern Myth - Chapter 1 - a look at the first chapter of Bruce Davidson's 1965 book, The Northern Myth

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Cheers,

Bob Gosford



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Robert Gosford
Crikey.com
The Northern Myth blog
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/
Yuendumu, NT
Australia