Cultural burning, medicinal plants - PhD scholarship opportunity

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https://adi.deakin.edu.au/latest-opportunities

About the Scholarship

A full-time PhD scholarship is available for a First Nations student to study relationships between Cultural Burning and medicinal plants. This is a mixed-methods project to be undertaken among Community and on Native Title Land that is subject to Cultural Burning. This scholarship is part of an ARC funded DECRA project entitled: Narrating the Roles of Animals in Cultural Burning. This project recognises the holistic nature of First Nations land management practices and seeks to produce detailed knowledge of how people, plants and animals co-construct landscapes via the medium of cultural fire. 

About the Supervisor

Marcus’ research interests include relations between humans and large carnivores and the new wave of animal domestication in Australia. He is the author of Among the Bone Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar and Crocodile Undone : The Domestication of Australia's Fauna.