Drawing on ancestral cosmology of Australia's indigenous people, this book develops a theory of indigenous peoples' innovation and intellectual property.

Peter Drahos is a professor at the Australian National University and holds a Chair in Intellectual Property at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.

1. The non-developmental state; 2. Cosmology's country; 3. Loss; 4. Symbolic recognition; 5. Rules and the recognition of ancestors; 6. The Kimberley: big projects, little projects; 7. Secret plants; 8. Paying peanuts for biodiversity; 9. Gentle on country, gentle on people; 10. Protecting country's cosmology; 11. Trust in networks.