Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture / general editors, Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale ; cultural editor, Robyne Bancroft ; editorial and research assistants, Tsari Anderson ... [et al.].

Publication

Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Neale, Margo
• Kleinert, Sylvia
• Bancroft, Robyne

Description

xxvi, 758 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.

Summary

A comprehensive overview covering indigeneous Australian art, archeological traditions, styles of the contact period, nineteenth-century art trends, and the development of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practices.

Alternative Title

• Aboriginal art and culture
• Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
• Aboriginal Art and Culture

Subject

• Artists, Aboriginal Australian > Encyclopedias
• Arts, Aboriginal Australian
• Art, Aboriginal Australian
• Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
• Arts, Aboriginal Australian > Encyclopedias
• Aboriginal Australians
• Aboriginal Australians > Encyclopedias
• Ethnic arts > Australia > Torres Strait Islands (Qld.)
• Torres Strait Islanders
• Torres Strait Islanders > Encyclopedias
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

Genre/Form

• Encyclopedias
• Reference works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Religion. 1.1. Aboriginal religion today / John Morton. 1.2. Religion and art from colonial conquest to post-colonial resistance / Marcia Langton. 1.3. The Pleiades in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander astronomies / Dianne Johnson. 1.4. The politics of the secret / Franchesca J. Cubillo. 1.5. Tarner the kangaroo: A source of Palawa spirituality / Greg Lehman. 1.6. Tombstone ceremonies: Identity and political integration / Judith M. Fitzpatrick -- 2. Ritual and Sacred Sites. 2.1. The Power of place / Deborah Bird Rose. 2.2. Ngantalarra, on the Nakarra Nakarra Dreaming track / Christine Watson. 2.3. Arrernte land and the Todd River in Alice Springs / Julie Marcus. 2.4. Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park / Mutitjulu Community Inc. and Parks Australia. 2.5. The stand of the Nyungah people / Robert C. Bropho --^
• 3. Kinship and Gender. 3.1. Kinship, family, and art / Howard Morphy. 3.2. Gender, aesthetics, performance / Annette Hamilton. 3.3. The politics of representation: Kinship and gender in the performance of public ritual / Francoise Dussart. 3.4. Don't Take Your Love to Town / Ruby Langford -- 4. Colonial Continuities and Discontinuities. 4.1. Art and culture in unsettled Australia / Jeremy Beckett. 4.2. Captain Cook: Between black and white / Chris Healy. 4.3. Too Many Captain Cooks / Chips Mackinolty and Paddy Fordham Wainbrranga. 4.4. Physiological Adaptation to Cold and other true horror stories / Julie Gough. 4.5. Aboriginal sovereignty / Kevin Gilbert. 4.6. Art and politics: The Bark Petition and the Barunga Statement / Howard Morphy --^
• 5. Rock Art Revisited. 5.1. Rock art: A multifaceted heritage / Andree Rosenfeld. 5.2. Rock art as inspiration in western Arnhem Land / Luke Taylor. 5.3. Mick Kubarkku and the rock rat of the Mann River district / Mick Kubarkku and Murray Garde. 5.4. Our paintings are our life: Ngarinyin Aboriginal Corporation and UNESCO / Paddy Neowarra and Anthony James Redmond. 5.5. 'Play about': Aboriginal grafitti in central Australia / Richard G. Kimber. 5.6. Writing on walls: Reflections of rock-art traditions in 'urban' Aboriginal art / Christine Watson --^
• 6. Arnhem Land. 6.1. Inner landscapes: The fourth dimension / Howard Morphy. 6.2. The Djang'kawu in art and performance / Ian Keen. 6.3. Two hundred burial poles: The Aboriginal Memorial / Djon Mundine. 6.4. Sacred memory and living tradition: Aboriginal art of the Macassan period in north-eastern Arnhem Land / Ian S. McIntosh. 6.5. 'Knowing the country, holding the Law': Yolngu dance performance in north-eastern Arnhem Land / Franca Tamasari. 6.6. Larrakia artists / Gary Lee -- 7. Between Islands. 7.1. Custom and creativity: Nineteenth-century collections of Torres Strait art / Anita Herle and Jude Philp. 7.2. Connections to the past / Mary Bani. 7.3. Dancing in Torres Strait / Koiki Mabo and Jeremy Beckett. 7.4. Contemporary Torres Strait Islander art / Brian Robinson. 7.5. Dance machines from the Torres Strait Islands / Tom Mosby. 7.6. Tiwi graveposts / Jennifer Hoff --^
• 8. Queensland. 8.1. Adornments and design in north Queensland: A view from the nineteenth century / Kate Khan. 8.2. Flash marks: A brief history of twentieth-century Queensland Aboriginal art / Margie West. 8.3. The Kalkadoon memorial / Elizabeth Furniss. 8.4. Tambo: Race and representation / Roslyn Poignant. 8.5. 'Portraits of Our Elders' / Michael Aird -- 9. Central Australia. 9.1. Painting country: The Arrente watercolour artists of Hermannsburg / J. V. S. Megaw and M. Ruth Megaw. 9.2. Hermannsburg Potterns / Naomi Sharp. 9.3. Irene Entata: Mission Days, 1998 / Jennifer Isaacs, Irene Entata and Clara Inkamala. 9.4. The Papunya Tula movement / Geoffrey Bardon. 9.5. Desert art / Vivien Johnson. 9.6. Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Utopia Panels, 1996 / Margo Neale. 9.7. The first Pintupi outstations / John Kean. 9.8. Drawing the Dreaming: The Berndt collection of drawings from Birrundudu (NT) / John E. Stanton --^
• 10. The Kimberley. 10.1. The traditional Aboriginal art of the Kimberley region / Kim Akerman. 10.2. Aboriginal artists in the Kimberley: New developments from the 1980s / Michael O'Ferrall. 10.3. Painting history at Warmun: The killing times / Queenie McKenzie and Eric Kjellgren. 10.4. Engraved Pearl shell from the Kimberley / Kim Akerman -- 11. The Southern States. 11.1. Art and Aboriginality in the south-east / Sylvia Kleinert. 11.2. Continuity and discontinuity: Wurundjeri custodianship of the Mt William quarry / Isabel McBryde. 11.3. Reclaiming Wailwan culture / Ann Stephen. 11.4. The Toas of Killalpaninna / Philip Jones. 11.5. Cultural relevance and resurgence: Aboriginal artists in Tasmania today / Julie Gough. 11.6. Bush landscapes of the south-west of Western Australia: The child art of Carrolup / John E. Stanton. 11.7. Language and identity / Jakelin Troy and Vic Sharman. 11.8. Yagan and the London -- Liverpoon connection / Mingli Wanjurri-Nungala --^
• 12. Urban Aboriginal Art. 12.1. United in the struggle: Indigenous art from urban areas / Margo Neale. 12.2. Aboriginal protest art / Roberta Sykes. 12.3. Indigenous political poster-making in the 1970s and 1980s / Lee-Anne Hall. 12.4. Is there an Aboriginal photography? / Kelly Gellatly. 12.5. HJ Wedge: Wiradjuri Spirit Man / H. J. Wedge and Hannah Fink. 12.6. Alternative sexualities / Wendy Brady and Gary Lee -- 13. Film and Communications. 13.1. Painting with light: Australian Indigenous cinema / Ian Bryson, Margaret Burns and Marcia Langton. 13.2. White people's homes / Frances Peters-Little. 13.3. Warrkwarrkbuynu media: Yolngu culture and Balanda technology / Johnny Barrarra, Bangana Wunungmurra and Jennifer Deger. 13.4. Indigenous arts and media: Gadigal in profile / Anita Heiss. 13.5. The World Wide Web / David Nathan --^
• 14. Literature. 14.1. Aboriginal writing / Philip Morrissey. 14.2. Early Aboriginal writing / Penny van Toorn. 14.3. The Past / Oodgeroo Noonuccal. 14.4. Story About Feeling / Bill Neidjie. 14.5. The Letter / Sally Morgan -- 15. Music. 15.1. Song as an Indigenous art / Lunda Barwick. 15.2. Aboriginal contemporary music: Rockin' into the mainstream? / Kathleen Oien. 15.3. Torres Strait Islander music / Frank York. 15.4. Maningrida, the didjeridu, and the Internet / Murray Garde. 15.5. The origins of dance and song in the Ngarinyin world / David Mowaljarlai and Anthony James Redmond -- 16. Performance. 16.1. Indigenous performance / Wesley Enoch. 16.2. Power Country / Peter Bibby. 16.3. Land, body, and poetry: An integrated dance aesthetic among the Tiwi / Andree Grau. 16.4. High art and the humour of the ordinary / Frances Peters-Little. 16.5. NAISDA: Reconciliation in action / Carole Y. Johnson. 16.6. Bangarra Dance Theatre / Lisa Meekison --^
• 17. Fibre-Work and Textiles. 17.1. Fibre tracks / Louise Hamby and Doreen Mellor. 17.2. Binding the rushes: Survival of culture / Ellen Trevorrow, Yvonne Koolmatri and Doreen Kartinyeri / [et al.]. 17.3. Lena Yarinkura and her mermaids / Lena Yarinkura, Margie West and Margaret Carew. 17.4. Weaving baskets in the Central Desert / Winnie Woods and Maggie Kavanagh. 17.5. Indigenous dress / Margaret Maynard -- 18. Cultural Meeting Places. 18.1. When whitefellas go walkabout / Gaye Sculthorpe. 18.2. Cultural Tourism at Uluru: Ananguku Tjukurpa / Nellie Patterson, Witjawara Curtis and Nancy Miller / [et al.]. 18.3. Bridging the gap: The production of tourist objects at La Perouse / Ilaria Vanni. 18.5. 'Another View' walking trail: Pathway of the Rainbow Serpent / Donna Leslie --^
• 19. Living Spaces. 19.1. Aboriginal architecture / Paul Memmott and Carroll Go-Sam. 19.2. 'Slave buildings' / Hannah McGlade. 19.3. In the vernacular / Helen Ross / Naangari, Jampin and [et al.]. 19.4. Aboriginal cultural centres / Kim Dovey. 19.5. Gurung gunya: A new dwelling / Alison Joy Page -- 20. Aboriginalities. 20.1. Post-colonial Dreaming at the end of the whitefellas' millenium / Ian Anderson. 20.2. Gesture, symbol, identity / Lee-Anne Hall. 20.3. Hindmarsh Island (Kumarangk): Challenging Australian mythologies / Steve Hemming. 20.4. Tales of Torres Strait: The historical novel and localised memories / Maureen Fuary. 20.5. Aborigines and cars / Ken Gelder.

ISBN

0195506499

OCLC

• 59522132
• SCSB-12020777

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library