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Songlines: The Power and Promise Paperback – October 27, 2020

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Songlines: The Power and Promise has a blend of Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices. It offers what Margo Neale calls ‘the third archive’. Aboriginal people use songlines to store their knowledge, while Western cultures use writing and technology. Aboriginal people now use a third archive – a combination of the two.

The authors believe that the third archive offers a promise of a better way for everyone to store, maintain and share knowledge while gaining a much deeper relationship with it.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd (October 27, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1760761184
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1760761189
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.16 x 0.71 x 7.72 inches
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I am a science writer and academic fascinated by just how humans manage to know so much stuff - and how we can all learn more.

My new book, 'The Knowledge Gene' will come out on 3 September 2024. It explains how humans have been genetically encoded to use music, art, story and our connection to our physical world to store vast amounts of knowledge as a community. It also explains why evolution has maintained neurodivergence is a portion of the population worldwide. We are no longer using the potential that evolution ensured we had because we have sidelined so many of our innate skills - especially music, art and memory palaces.

In the more recent of my previous books, 'The Memory Code' tells the story of the extraordinary memory methods used by Indigenous cultures the world over, and why that explains the purpose of monuments like Stonehenge. Then 'Memory Craft' explains the way you can implement these memory techniques in contemporary life to memorise almost anything and keep your brain active.

'Songlines: the power and promise' and 'Songlines for Younger Readers' were written with Indigenous coauthor, Margo Neale. They offer an Indigenous and non-indigenous perspective on the way Australian Aboriginal songlines work to store vast amounts of information in memory.

My PhD research provided the foundation for these books. Cambridge University Press has published the academic version, 'Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies' giving a solid peer-reviewed academic reasoning for my ideas.

Writing dominates my life. I started with educational books - 10 of them - logical because I was a teacher. I wrote a novel, 'Avenging Janie' and then three popular science books: 'The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal', 'Crocodile: evolution's greatest survivor' and 'Spiders: learning to love them'. I overcame my arachnophobia a bit too well and now I am obsessed by spiders. I simply adore the gorgeous critters.

But it will be knowledge systems which will dominate my writing for many years to come. I simply love the stuff!

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5.0 out of 5 stars An invitation to grow
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This book is so valuable to society, any society. I am grateful to the author for writing it. It reaches over societal boundaries to a truth almost forgotten in the modern world. If you are hungry for a dose of reality in an artificial world. Try this book
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5.0 out of 5 stars An incredibly stimulating read on many levels
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This is one of the best books I have ever read. It shows you many new ways to think about your place within the world and to organise and expand your knowledge and creativity.
Most of all it provides a deeply considered, richly meaningful account of Aboriginal Songlines as a living repository of information and wisdom which has benefited Aboriginal people for millennia, opening out the discussion to show how the invaluable knowledge encoded in the Songlines can be shared in a process of healing our whole Australian community.
This book is so thought provoking, beautiful, profound and optimistic. I am on a mission to persuade my friends to read it.
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GlennWallace
4.0 out of 5 stars Informative overview but avoids the complexity of addressing the devastating impacts of colonisation
Reviewed in Australia on January 22, 2022
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The significance of songlines is powerfully presented but the complexity of reconstructing the knowledge base of Aboriginal people of SouthEast Australia where colonisation has had the greatest impact is only briefly touched on.
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5.0 out of 5 stars To read is to connect
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This book will begin the process of truly connecting to this land we call Australia. It is a book to be read and to be lived. Yindyamarra.
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