Songlines

Chatwin, B., (1988), The Songlines, London: Macmillan Publishers.

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Aboriginal creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who had wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path-birds,animals, plants. rocks, water-holes-and so singing the world into existence.
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Now, in a Europe of mindless materialism, his 'old men' seemed wiser and more thoughtful than ever
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the Aboriginals had an earthbound philosophy. the earth gave life to a man; gave him his food, language and intelligence; and the earth took him back when he died. a man's own country' even an empty strech of spinifex, was itself a sacred ikon that must remain unscarred.
'to wound the earth ...is to wound yourself, and if others wound the earth , they are wounding you.
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the Aboriginals...were a people who trod lightly over the earth; and the less they took from the earth, the less they had to give in returm.
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Aboriginals could not belive the country existed until they could see and sing it...'to exist' is 'to be perceived'.

Home

Blunt, A.,Dowling, R., (2006), Home. London: Routledge.

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home is not merely a physical structure or a geogrephical location but always an emotional spacel.
home is neither the dwelling nor the feeling, but the relation between the two.
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home does not simply exist, but is made. home is a process of creating and understanding forms of dwelling and belonging.
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for Rominies 'domestic rituals'are 'performed in a house, a condtructed shelter, and derive meaning from the protection and confinement a house can provide...it can be an ordinary housenold task such as ...sewing a seam.
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home is an idea: an inner geography ....
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household guides helped to redefine middle-class domesticity and the feminine attributes on which it was seen to depend, and gave a new status to women at home.
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magazines and a growing number of househokd guides helped to redefine middle-class domesticity and the feminine attributes on which it was seen to depend, and gave new status to women at home...throughout its history, the women's magazine has defined its reders 'as women'...femininity is always reprresented in the magazines as fractured....still to be achived. Houshold guides ...both asserting a femimized domesticity and instructing women on its achievements.
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resarchers in ...women's history have been reevaluating home economics, developing an understanding of it as a profession that... opened up oportunities for women...some were focused on the home, while others were more concerned with the broader social environment.
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the 1950s home increasingly articulated interior design as a form of household management....this discouurse gave women a new capacity to shape there part of the world during the 1940s and 1950s
one the one hande both state and market discourses suggested that women could sweep away the elements of traditional....home designs... on the other, popular magazines also placed a great deal of emphasis on the look of things and on looking itself, further inscribing women's identity within domestic space.
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'modern' architects argued that the kitchen should be a machine for cooking in, but this small modern, and efficient space.... completely overlooked ...working class social practice'.
kitchens were to small for a table, but ...reidents ate there...perched up at the ironing board or at the shelf by the hatch.

Mythogeography at the Royal William Victualling Yard

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