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Reports
Travel & Tourism Development Index 2024: Insight Report May 2024

2024

Author(s): World Economic Forum, University of Surrey

The index provides a strategic benchmarking tool for business, governments, international organizations and others to develop the Travel & Tourism sector.

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Reports
The Indigenous World 2024, 38th ed.

2024

Author(s): Mamo D

This yearly overview serves to document and report on the developments Indigenous Peoples have experienced throughout 2023.

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Books
Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing: Voices of Country

2024

Author(s): Sheehan N, Jones D S, Creighton J, Harrington S

The book presents an Aboriginal Australian relational understanding of the world that offers a counter-narrative to the Western notion of heritage and new insights into the potential for sustaining the complex systems that support all life.

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This book provides a roadmap toward transformational education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and students.

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Books
Ancient Indigenous Human Remains and the Law

2024

Author(s): Batt F

The book draws on a process of recharacterisation. Recharacterisation is to be understood to mean the allocation of an indigenous peoples understanding and character of ancient indigenous human remains and ancient indigenous DNA, in order to counter the property narrative articulated by museums and scientists in disputes.

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This book explores how the landscapes in indigenous territories are rapidly changing due to increased global industrial demand. This deforestation and urbanization has isolated the Indigenous People from practising 'traditional ways of life.' Portrayed in the book are the Indigenous People's perspective of their Indigenous Knowledge about the enviornment, and why losing IK is a threat to humans, wildlife and nature.

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Books
The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge

2024

Author(s): Thornton T F, Bhagwat S A

This volume provides an overview of key themes in Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (IEK) and anchors them with brief but well-grounded empirical case studies of relevance for each of these themes, drawn from bioculturally diverse areas around the world.

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This study provides a multifaceted window into the intricate tapestry of the Sumi–Naga tribal community's agricultural practices, cultural traditions, and the delicate interplay between the two. By bridging empirical research with the preservation imperative, the study shines a spotlight on the urgency of safeguarding these practices and traditions, ensuring their continuous propagation for generations to come.

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This is a book about the dai, or traditional birth practitioner, and her place in the emerging therapeutic domain in colonial and contemporary India.

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The book demonstrates how to bring Indigenous Knowledges to the forefront of education practice and provides educators with the tools to enact culturally responsive curricula and pedagogies, ensuring positive educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and students.