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Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge
Yolngu art as a communication system encoding meaning as form; relation of art to the systems of clan organisation and restricted (secret) knowledge; ...
Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories
Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. Today, it is considered to be an important contemporary art m...
Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities
Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums’ responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinit...
This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its wide...
A survey of the great variety of Aboriginal art....
An Anthology of Recent Writings
Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recen...
Outback letters to Baldwin Spencer
This is the story of three men and three frontiers. In the nineteenth century the centre of the continent was, to white Australians, a vast forbidding...
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and priv...
An Accompanying Monograph to the Film Mad̲arrpa Funeral at Gurka'wuy
Interpretive account of childs funeral at Gurkawuy outstation, Trial Bay; Yolngu social organisation (particularly clan formation and marriage); conta...
Dadang Christanto, Julie Dowling, Janenne Eaton, Janet Laurence
Is the final exhibition in a project on 'Art and Human Rights'. The key participants have determinedly broken down the barriers between art practice a...
Research Engagements with Arnhem Land Art
Represents "the work of a curatorium consisting of Howard and Frances Morphy, Nigel Lendon and Jon Altman from the collections each has made during ma...
Bilder Der Reise (a Man, who Likes to Draw)
artist monograph...
This book examines the concept of adaptation in four major fields in the human sciences. Genetic aspects are first considered through an examination o...
In 1947 a group of senior Aboriginal leaders and bark painters in Yirrkala, north-east Arnhem Land, collaborated with anthropologists Ronald and Cathe...
Australia's Great Bark Painters
Bark painting, as practised by Aboriginal artists of Arnhem Land for millennia, is one of the great traditions of world art. Yet it was only recognise...
- The second book in the Gay'wu Aboriginal Arts and Knowledge series, following on from the success of Anangu Collective, ISBN 9788874399611 - Publish...
Enduring Civilisation
Published to accompany major exhibitions at the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia in 2015, Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisati...
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Source of Fire, 2003-2005