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Cultural context
Understanding the Aboriginal culture is a challenging concept due to the gaps in
what is understood about the Aboriginal worldview that are evident today
(Magin, 2005, p.49). There are different cultural concepts, which need to be
understood as they are recognised as the foundations of the Indigenous
Australian culture. The Dreaming is an integral component of Indigenous
Australian culture, and therefore essential for all Australians to understand. The
Dreaming is an English term that describes the complex and all-encompassing
Aboriginal creative epoch (Edwards, 1998, p. 79), which is closely tied to the
land. The Dreaming incorporates the rules, taboos and punishments (Edwards,
1998, p. 85) that Aboriginal peoples abide by, along with their Spiritual identity
through parallel layers of events and characters that are both internally
generated and heterogeneous (Magin, 2005, p.51). Dreaming, as conceived in
Aboriginal thought is difficult to describe, due to non-Aboriginal concepts of
time prevailing in Western thought
(Edwards,
1998, p.
79).
Western
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