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  • Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History

    de Laura Rademaker, Sally K. May, Gabriel Maralngurra, Joakim Goldhahn ...
    The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, ceremonies, and knowledge by embedding their understanding of the world in the landscape over many generations. Indeed, rock art serves as archives and libraries for Australia's Indigenous people. ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Karrikadjurren

    Art, Community, and Identity in Western Arnhem Land

    de Sally K. May ...
    Series series Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples
    Presenting a story of art and artists in Gunbalanya, western Arnhem Land between the years 2001 and 2005, this book explores the artistic community surrounding the primary place of art creation and sale in the region, Injalak Arts, an art centre established in the remote Aboriginal community of Gunbalanya.Using a variety of disciplinary approaches including archaeological analysis and material ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Portable Art

    Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives

    Edición de Michelle Langley, Mirani Litster, Duncan Wright, Sally K May ...
    The development of complex cultural behaviour in our own species is perhaps the most significant research issue in modern archaeology. Until recently, it was believed that our capacity for language and art only developed after some of our ancestors reached Europe around 40,000 years ago. Archaeological discoveries in Africa now show that modern humans were practicing symbolic behaviours prior to ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Archaeologies of Art

    Time, Place, and Identity

    Edición de Inés Domingo Sanz, Dánae Fiore, Sally K May ...
    This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity. Examples stretch from ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Collecting Cultures

    Myth, Politics, and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition

    de Sally K. May ...
    Series series Indigenous Archaeologies Series
    In February 1948, a team of Australians and Americans embarked upon one of the largest scientific expeditions that had ever taken place in Australia. Seventeen men and women journeyed across northern Australia for nine months, investigating the people and environment of the remote region known as Arnhem Land. Today, the Arnhem Land Expedition remains one of the most significant, most ambitious, ... Leer más

    $103.99 USD

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  • Wilson Duff

    Coming Back, a Life

    de Robin Fisher ...
    The fascinating origin story of Wilson Duff, the pioneering BC anthropologist and museologist remembered for his contributions to research on First Nations cultures of the Northwest Coast.Wilson Duff was born in 1925 in the city of Vancouver and his turbulent early years were shaped by the Great Depression and the Second World War. An intelligent child, he quickly progressed in school. After one ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Rattling Spears

    A History of Indigenous Australian Art

    de Ian McLean ...
    Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying the impact of their work in the media, on art collectors and the art world at large ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • The Difference Identity Makes

    Indigenous Cultural Capital in Australian cultural fields

    Edición de Lawrence Bamblett, Fred Myers, Tim Rowse ...
    Through the struggles of Indigenous Australians for recognition and self-determination it has become common sense to understand Australia as made up of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and things. But in what ways is the Indigenous on-Indigenous distinction being used and understood? In The Difference Identity Makes, thirteen Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics examine how this ... Leer más

    $26.19 USD

  • Dirt

    New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination

    Edición de Rosie Cox, Prof. Ben Campkin ...
    Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural - the contributors expose how ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies

    Edición de Bruno David, Bryce Barker, Ian J. McNiven ...
    This book reveals the ancient past of Aboriginal Australians to be one of long-term changes in social relationships and traditions, as well as the active management and manipulation of the environment. It looks beyond the stereotype of Aboriginal people as 'hunter-gatherers' and charts new and challenging agendas for Australian Aboriginal archaeology. ... Leer más

    $26.29 USD

  • An Appreciation of Difference

    WEH Stanner, Aboriginal Australia and Anthropology

    de Melinda Hinkson, Jeremy Beckett ...
    WEH Stanner was a public intellectual whose work reached beyond the walls of the academy, and he remains a highly significant figure in Aboriginal affairs and Australian anthropology. He contributed much to public understandings of the Dreaming and the significance of Aboriginal religion. His 1968 Boyer Lectures, After the Dreaming, continue to be among the most widely quoted works in the field of ... Leer más

    $26.19 USD

  • Rethinking Australia’s Art History

    The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

    de Susan Lowish ...
    Series series Studies in Art Historiography
    This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the idea of "Aboriginal art" developed in the European imagination, manifested in early literature, and became a ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD