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Core Part 2: Heritage and Identity
Quick questions on Cultural expression and the arts in HSC Aboriginal Studies
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What is cultural expression carries knowledge?Show answer
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, art, song, dance and story are how Dreaming knowledge, law and connection to Country are recorded and passed on. These forms predate writing and have carried complex knowledge across thousands of generations. Cultural expression is therefore a form of education and law as much as art, and the right to perform a particular song, paint a particular design or tell a particular story is held under kinship and custom, not freely available to anyone.
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