Celebrating and preserving Indigenous ceremonies

Associate Professor Linda Payi Ford identifies as Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu, from Kurrindju and is Principal Research Fellow in the Northern Institute, College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University. Associate Professor Ford receives funding for two projects through the ARC’s Discovery Indigenous scheme: ‘Aboriginal Cosmology—what this means for women and policy’ and ‘New ways for old ceremonies— an archival research project’. The projects are helping to preserve, interpret and disseminate the recordings of
ceremonial performances in the Wagait-Daly region of the Northern Territory.