Title Murujuga : rock art, heritage, and landscape iconoclasm / José Antonio González Zarandona

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Situating Murujuga -- Chapter 2. Murujuga and Its Meanings -- Chapter 3. The Colonial Gaze -- Chapter 4. Rude Aesthetics -- Chapter 5. The Colonization of the Landscape -- Chapter 6. The Destruction of Landscape in Murujuga -- Chapter 7. The Making of Heritage -- Chapter 8. Landscape Iconoclasm -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary A fascinating case study of the archaeological site at Murujuga, AustraliaLocated in the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia, Murujuga is the single largest archaeological site in the world. It contains an estimated one million petroglyphs, or rock art motifs, produced by the Indigenous Australians who have historically inhabited the archipelago. To date, there has been no comprehensive survey of the site's petroglyphs or those who created them. Since the 1960s, regional mining interests have caused significant damage to this site, destroying an estimated 5 to 25 percent of the petroglyphs in Murujuga. Today, Murujuga holds the unenviable status of being one of the most endangered archaeological sites in the world.José Antonio González Zarandona provides a full postcolonial analysis of Murujuga as well as a geographic and archaeological overview of the site, its ethnohistory, and its considerable significance to Indigenous groups, before examining the colonial mistreatment of Murujuga from the seventeenth century to the present. Drawing on a range of postcolonial perspectives, Zarandona reads the assaults on the rock art of Murujuga as instances of what he terms "landscape iconoclasm": the destruction of art and landscapes central to group identity in pursuit of ideological, political, and economic dominance. Viewed through the lens of landscape iconoclasm, the destruction of Murujuga can be understood as not only the result of economic pressures but also as a means of reinforcing--through neglect, abandonment, fragmentation, and even certain practices of heritage preservation--the colonial legacy in Western Australia. Murujuga provides a case study through which to examine, and begin to reject, archaeology's global entanglement with colonial intervention and the politics of heritage preservation Analysis Anthropology Archaeology Architecture Fine Art Folklore Garden History Linguistics Subject Petroglyphs -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) -- Antiquities Iconoclasm. Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) Landscape archaeology -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) Cultural property -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities Antiquities Art, Aboriginal Australian Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. Cultural property Iconoclasm Landscape archaeology Petroglyphs SUBJECT Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) -- Antiquities Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) -- History Subject Western Australia -- Burrup Peninsula Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812296983 0812296982

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