A four part series.
This first program in the series takes us from the changing deserts of deep time and their human inhabitants, through Aboriginal relationships with landscape, to the first days of the cattle kings. Along this timeline we also explore the powerful effect of the Judeo-Christian tradition in formulating western approaches to the landscape. On the one hand, there was a drive to develop the harsh landscape, as not to do so would be against God; on the other, there was a deep...
A four part series.
This first program in the series takes us from the changing deserts of deep time and their human inhabitants, through Aboriginal relationships with landscape, to the first days of the cattle kings. Along this timeline we also explore the powerful effect of the Judeo-Christian tradition in formulating western approaches to the landscape. On the one hand, there was a drive to develop the harsh landscape, as not to do so would be against God; on the other, there was a deep spiritual ambivalence about the desert – as a place of trial and punishment, but also healing and redemption. We also see the practical parallels and confluences between westerners and Indigenous desert-dwellers as they work out ways to negotiate the management of land, water and spirituality.
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