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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michaels, Eric.

Series:

Theory out of bounds ; v. 3.

Theory out of bounds ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warlpiri (Australian people)--Communication.

Warlpiri (Australian people).

Communication.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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-Ethnography; Postscript: My Essay on Postmodernism; Notes; Works Cited; A Bibliography of Eric Michaels; Index

Notes:

First Nations peoples are warned this item may contain images, voices and names of people who have passed, or be considered insensitive, inappropriate, or outdated. The item reflects the attitude of the author/s or the period in which it was written and does not represent the views of the Library.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [197-198].

ISBN:

0-8166-8546-0

OCLC:

476096220