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Article: Multimedia dreaming: aboriginal writer Christine Morris explores a radically different approach to culture and storytelling from that of the media multinationals.
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- New Internationalist
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- April 1, 2001
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The `great epics' or Dreaming stories which Australian Aborigines are so famous for are read not from a text but from the landscape. A Dreaming story is told by pointing out and walking tracks of land. Indigenous Australians can therefore be said to live in a giant storybook, and from my own personal experience of `reading country' it is one of the most wondrous' ways to travel a land.
At first sight one may not think there is a correlation between the Aboriginal Dreaming and Movieworld and Dreamworld -- two multimedia theme parks that have been built on our traditional land. If anything, the theme parks are actually the antithesis of the Dreaming.
But ...
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