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Telling stories in the sand
15 February 2012
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Australia’s indigenous people have a strong tradition of oral story telling, but there’s another type of storytelling tradition that is not so well known.
“Sand stories” are a storytelling technique used in some Aboriginal cultures, incorporating images and performance with symbols drawn in the sand.
Dr Jennifer Green has been researching sand stories in parts of the Central Australian desert.
Presenter: Heather Jarvis
Speaker: Dr Jennifer Green, from the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne
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