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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457386303321

Autore

Michaels Eric

Titolo

Bad Aboriginal art [[electronic resource] ] : tradition, media and technological horizons / / Eric Michaels ; foreword by Dick Hebdige ; introduction by Marcia Langton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8166-8546-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Theory out of bounds ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

302.2/0899915

306.470899915

Soggetti

Warlpiri (Australian people) - Communication

Communication

Knowledge, Sociology of

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [197-198].

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword Dick Hebdige; Introduction Marcia Langton; A Note to the Reader Michael Leigh; Acknowledgments Paul Foss; I: A Primer of Restrictions on Picture-Taking in Traditional Areas of Aboriginal Australia; II: Aboriginal Content: Who's Got It-Who Needs It?; III: Western Desert Sandpainting and Postmodernism; IV: Hundreds Shot at Aboriginal Community: ABC Makes TV Documentary at Yuendumu; V: Hollywood Iconography: A Warlpiri Reading; VI: For a Cultural Future: Francis Jupurrurla Makes TV at Yuendumu; VII: If ""All Anthropologists Are Liars ...""; VIII: Bad Aboriginal Art

IX: Para-EthnographyPostscript: My Essay on Postmodernism; Notes; Works Cited; A Bibliography of Eric Michaels; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the account of the author's period of residence and work with the Walpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on these remote communities. Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, this volume records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that community's forays into broadcasting.