Ceremony: All Our Yesterdays for Today

The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future.  Exploring practices such as songlines, architecture, design, land management, plants, astronomy, law, innovation and health, this series brings together two very different ways of understanding the world: one ancient and ongoing, the other modern. This ninth book in the series focuses on ceremonies.

For First Nations Australians, ceremonies create the backbone of cultural practice.

'Ceremony: All Our Yesterdays for Today' shows how ceremonies link people today to those of the past in a continuum of inherited stories and memories – from rites of passage to smoking ceremonies, from Welcomes to Country to interregional festivals and much more.

Pages: 224, Paperback

Published: 2025