Familiar Places

Familiar Places

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Status

Released

Runtime

0h 50m

Original Title

Familiar Places

Director

David MacDougall

Description

Narrated by the linguist and anthropologist Peter Sutton, this documentary observes his work with a family in far north Queensland, outside Aurukun, to map their hereditary "clan country". The aim of the older members of the family is partly to protect their land and prove their attachment to it, for purposes of dealing with the government and industry, and also to demarcate the country from claims by other Aboriginal groups.