The Secret-Sacred
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Today's Australian mass media often include depictions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Some of them are sensitive material that may require certain restrictions on access for spiritual reasons. These sensitivities have greatest force when the materials include records and/or depictions of secret and/or sacred information which may have been recorded with or without permission.
Audio-visual records of deceased persons are a taboo amongst many indigenous communities. An item may not be seen by everyone. A sacred site may have to stay secret to only an initiated few elders. Amongst the various indigenous nations in Australia, some consist of different "dreaming" groups, all of them restricted to only their own images, songs, rituals and artefacts. Furthermore, each group is separated into women's and men's business thus creating a complex system of restrictions and privileges.
There are both published and archival materials which contain such secrets which should have never been made generally available. How can society deal with secrets it was never meant to learn?
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Today's Australian mass media often include depictions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Some of them are sensitive material that may require certain restrictions on access for spiritual reasons. These sensitivities have greatest force when the materials include records and/or depictions of secret and/or sacred information which may have been recorded with or without permission.
Audio-visual records of deceased persons are a taboo amongst many indigenous communities. An item may not be seen by everyone. A sacred site may have to stay secret to only an initiated few elders. Amongst the various indigenous nations in Australia, some consist of different "dreaming" groups, all of them restricted to only their own images, songs, rituals and artefacts. Furthermore, each group is separated into women's and men's business thus creating a complex system of restrictions and privileges.
There are both published and archival materials which contain such secrets which should have never been made generally available. How can society deal with secrets it was never meant to learn?
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